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In this collection, Robert Frosts Birches, Marianne Moores The Camperdown Elm, Gerard Manley Hopkinss Binsey Poplars, and Zbigniew Herberts Sequoia stand tall beside Eugenio Montales The Lemon Trees, Yves Bonnefoys The Apples, Bertolt Brechts The Plum Tree, D.

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A beautiful anthology of classic love poems, introduced by bestselling author Joanna Trollope.

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A beautiful collection of classic poetry to calm, console and uplift.

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According to Unesco, of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world, more than half are endangered, with one disappearing every two weeks. This collection of 50 poems celebrates and preserves these unique voices and takes the reader on a global journey of discovery.

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Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. In this book, all kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics, banquets and many others.

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For centuries poets in all the world's cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the earth and its people. Devotional lyrics drawn from the major religious traditions offer their perspectives, alongside poetic tributes to autumn and the harvest season that draw our attention to nature's bounty and poignant beauty as winter approaches.

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Messages of hope in the midst of pain - in such masterpieces as Adam Zagajewski's 'Try to Praise the Mutilated World', Wislawa Szymborska's 'The End and the Beginning' and Stevie Smith's 'Away, Melancholy' - make this a perfect gift for anyone on the road to healing.

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Poems of London brings together a remarkably wide range of poems inspired by the storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today.
The pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare and Donne to Wordsworth and Blake to T.

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All the famous sights of Paris are touched on here, from Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower, as are such classic Parisian themes as food and drink, art and love, and famous events from the Revolution to the Resistance.

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The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant.

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This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of
zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils.

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'These annual anthologies of the poems in the running for the Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.' Daily Telegraph

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Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry.

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Includes poems old and new, familiar and unfamiliar that explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music and nature, and feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D H Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare, among many others.

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A beautifully designed collection of mystical poems to soothe, inspire and rejuvenate the soul. With a body of work spanning the centuries, from the Vedas to St Teresa of Avila, Rumi and Rilke, and arranged by transcendent themes, this book will connect readers with nature, with the stillness within themselves and with the Divine.

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Auden, Lewis, MacNeice and other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism and by the class-struggle. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, a varied body of poetry emerged. This book arranges the poetry to make a 'critical essay' of the period.

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A compilation of classic poems from the beloved Radio 4 series.

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From Shakespeare and Rossetti to Auden, Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, Poetry Please: Love is a treasury of favourite love poems.

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From Shakespeare and Rossetti to Auden, Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, Poetry Please: Love Poems is a treasury of the nation's favourites.

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The poetry of the Provencal troubadours has influenced the development of the lyric, from Dante and Petrarch to Ezra Pound and the Black Mountain poets, despite the difficulty of Old Provencal, or Occitan, the original language of the troubadours. This is an anthology of thirty troubadour poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries.

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An anthology of inspiring political poetry compiled by award-winning poet and novelist Ben Okri.

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The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. This edition is illustrated with the magnificent classical engravings of Johannes Pine's great edition of Horace of 1737.