The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

Author: Jonathan Wordsworth

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-05-26

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 0141905654

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Penguin's Poems for Life
Penguin's Poems for Life

Author: Laura Barber

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-09-25

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0141889799

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Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes - when only a poem will do. Contains an introduction by Laura Barber.

Penguin's Poems by Heart
Penguin's Poems by Heart

Author: Laura Barber

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-05-28

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0141932015

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Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favourites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor of Penguin's Poems for Life and the forthcoming Penguin's Poems for Love) this anthologoy is an essential addition to everyone's repertoire.

The Penguin Book of Haiku
The Penguin Book of Haiku

Author: Adam L. Kern

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0141395257

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'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018 The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running three lines long in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern's new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.

Love Poems
Love Poems

Author: Pablo Neruda

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2008-01-17

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0811221482

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Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

Penguin
Penguin

Author: Polly Dunbar

Publisher: Walker

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781406323986

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Can a penguin be the perfect present? Ben is delighted when he opens his present and finds a penguin inside. But Penguin says nothing. It isn't until a passing lion intervenes that Penguin finally speaks - and when he does, Ben discovers something that was really worth the wait.

Selected Poems
Selected Poems

Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780140449532

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Jelaluddin Rumi was a 13th-century philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the Whirling Dervishes. He was also an inspirational poet, and this collection of his work shows the themes that underpin his verses - tolerance, goodness, the experience of God and awareness through love.

For Children and the Young at Heart: Stories, Songs, Poems, and Rhymes
For Children and the Young at Heart: Stories, Songs, Poems, and Rhymes

Author: Deborah Battle

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1635753619

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These original songs, short stories, and nursery rhymes are truly for the young at heart. This book is written from actual experiences and ideally born from within my heart. Oral short stories are methods universally used to speak about truths, family matters, and world happenings. Young and old alike enjoyed oral stories before television became so popular. Oral short stories when read to classroom students increase learning and imagination and widen the minds of all who partake in its jewels. Holiday poems as well as poems for special occasions create expressive ways for children to use language. A springboard of stories inside are about life and life's ups and downs, Deborah's Songs, Short Stories, and Nursery Rhymes is an amazing compilation, especially for parents, teachers, children, and dreamers everywhere.

The Heart of James McAuley
The Heart of James McAuley

Author: Peter Coleman

Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780975801567

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'The Heart of James McAuley' examines the work of the famous poet, editor, critic, and political thinker. It places the poetry in its biographical context - from his anarchistic and avant-garde youth to the libertarian conservative and Catholic convert of later years. It takes a new look at the great Ern Malley hoax, his profound essays on the decolonization of New Guinea, his association with such major figures as B.A. Santamaria and Sir John Kerr, his involvement with the Industrial Groups in the ALP and with the DLP, his founding of the magazine Quadrant, and his response to a number of controversies from the CIA scandals to the New Left assaults on the universities. No other biography of McAuley encompasses all the wide-ranging activities of this great poet.