Poems Of The Sea
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Poems Of The Sea
By (Author) J. D. Mcclatchy
Everyman
Everyman's Library
15th October 2001
28th September 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
808.81932162
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 114mm, Height 166mm, Spine 19mm
231g
Description
Just a few of the poets included- Emily Dickinson, Swinburne, DH Lawrence, John Masefield, John Milton, Shakespeare, William Carlos Williams, Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Plath, Donne, Goethe, Coleridge, Noel Coward and WS Gilbert.... Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless
Author Bio
J. D. McClatchy is the author of four earlier books of poems, Scenes from Another Life (1981), Stars Principal (1986), The Rest of the Way (1990), and Ten Commandments (1998). His literary essays are collected in White Paper (1989) and Twenty Questions (1998). He is the editor of The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) and The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996), as well as a co-editor of James Merrill's Collected Poems (2001) and Collected Novels and Plays (2002). The author of several opera libretti, McClatchy is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at Yale University and is editor of The Yale Review.
