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The language of flowers is as old as language itself. This book aims to provide an updated floral anthology for the 21st century, presenting poetry from ancient Greece to contemporary Britain and America, and spanning the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe. It concludes with a selected glossary drawn from several Victorian collections.

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Collecting some 30 of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring, this volume features works by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Reed, Marie Ponsot, and others. 15 line drawings.

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"Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach..."

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"Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach..."

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An attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form. This anthology features Roger McGough's work, alongside that of Brian Patten and Adrian Henri.

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In 1995 BBC Television's "Bookworm" programme conducted a poll amongst viewers to determine their favourite poems. The top 100 are presented in this book. They include the winner, Kipling's "If", and many other classics, as well as modern verse by writers such as Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.

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An anthology of poems that represents man's changeless responses to the changeless changing seasons of his heart.

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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

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The period 1820-1950 is particularly rich for students and lovers of poetry. While this anthology contains, of course, generous selections from established giants - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme and Michaux - it also draws attention to interesting "minor" poets such as Claudel or Cendrars.

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Features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. This title explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the variety of the poems to the frequently troubled history of the island.

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A comprehensive anthology of African poetry with wide-ranging contents: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers.

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The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a selection of its poetry, and includes a range of works by the poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton.

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Offers an anthology that is suitable for poetry lovers and romantics everywhere.

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The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art - art for art's sake.

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"This translation of The satires of Horace and Persius first published 1973; revised edition, with Horace's Epistles, published 1979; reprinted with revisions ... 2005"--T.p. verso.

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Eight world-class twentieth-century Russian poets brought to new life in Schmidt's scintillating translations.

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The only truly global collection of love poetry, bringing together the most stunning and inspiring poems from all around the world

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A breath-taking new poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestseller Kwame Alexander.

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An anthology of the final works of great poets. It curates the last poems of one hundred influential poets. Each of these poems, sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a poetic career, offer a lens through which to contemplate the enduring nature of art and the inevitability of death.

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This an extraordinary anthology of poems celebrating 20 years of Malika's poetry kitchen - a thriving collective of writers and poets, whose words, stories and poems changed the British landscape

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The now classic anthology that has introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership