OEDIPUS THE KING AND OTHER TRAGEDIES OEDIPUS THE KING AIAS PHILOCTETES OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by SOPHOCLES
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Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths ...Show more
Favorite Poems of the Wild: An Adventurer's Collection by Bushel & Bushel & Peck Books (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Lose yourself in the enchanting solitude of the wild with this bold collection of poems. Featuring dozens of handpicked verses, this beautiful hardcover book about mountains, rivers, and forests includes beloved works by poets like Rudyard Kipling, Li Bai, Emily Dickinson, and Joyce Kilmer, including Qu ...Show more
And to Ecstasy by Marjon Mossammaparast
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Category: Poetry and Plays
In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matched with the belief we are also spirit beings. And to Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite poems, M ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shake ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
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Category: Poetry and Plays
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more
Canti: The Poems of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death.
The Essential Rumi Revised by Coleman Barks
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Category: Poetry and Plays
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making th ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
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Category: Poetry and Plays
In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry and Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Sarah Holland-Batt's highly acclaimed and popular poetry columns from The Australian are collected together for the first time in Fishing for Lightning - suitable for the general reader as well as poetry aficionados. Fishing for Lightning gathers together acclaimed poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt's c ...Show more
Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly by Paul Kelly
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, <i>A Poet for Every Day of the Year</i>, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new dis ...Show more