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  • The Essential Poems

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Endowed with an intellect of the first order, and an imagination at once delicate and splendid, Coleidge, from a weakness of moral constitution and his lamentable habit, fell far short of the performance which he had planned, and which included various epic poems, and a complete system of philosophy, in which all knowledge was to be co-ordinated. He has, however, left enough poetry of such ... Read more

    € 0,99

  • All Souls

    Essential Poems

    by Brenda Marie Osbey

    All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of history, memory, and the indelible bonds between living and dead that has marked the output of Louisiana Poet Laureate Emerita Brenda Marie Osbey. Comprising poems written and published over the span of four decades, this thematic collection highlights the unity of Osbey’s voice and narrative intent.The six sections ... Read more

    € 11,43

  • Ask Me

    100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

    by William Stafford and 1 more

    "In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." —Naomi Shihab NyeSome time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life.—from "Ask Me"In celebration of the poet's centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Stafford's essential poems. As a conscientious objector during World War ... Read more

    € 8,60

  • Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

    by Neil Astley

    Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive trilogy has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit. These books have been enormously popular with readers, especially as gift books and bedside ... Read more

    € 11,11

  • Poetry Los Angeles

    Reading the Essential Poems of the City

    by Laurence Goldstein

    Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central ... Read more

    € 24,73

  • Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With)

    by Daisy Goodwin

    Forget chocolate, exotic lingerie, or marriage counselors -- the only props you'll ever need, whether you are in love or out of it, are the poems in this book. There are verses here to console you when the phone doesn't ring or the divorce papers have been signed, and poems that celebrate the joy of being in love, from the first kiss to walking down the aisle (for the second time). These essential ... Read more

    € 9,58

  • Ship of Gold

    The Essential Poems of Émile Nelligan

    by Émile Nelligan and 1 more

    A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Émile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy. Three years later, when a mental collapse led to his life-long institutionalization in 1899, he had already produced an impressive body of work. Translating Nelligan’s ... Read more

    € 10,78

  • The Essential Muriel Rukeyser

    Poems

    by Muriel Rukeyser and 1 more

    The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha TretheweyEngaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her ... Read more

    € 9,91

  • Edgar Allan Poe: Essential Tales & Poems (Illustrated)

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    series Top Five Classics
    This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of the Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features 75 of Poe’s greatest short stories and poems.33 Tales, including:• The Tell-Tale Heart• The Murders in the Rue Morgue• The Fall of the House of Usher• The Masque of the Red Death• The Pit and the Pendulum• The Purloined Letter• The Black Cat• Hop-Frog• The Cask... ... Read more

    € 0,99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Christmas Library

    250+ Essential Christmas Novels, Poems, Carols, Short Stories...by 100+ Authors

    by A.A. Milne and 126 more

    This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more! ... Read more

    € 0,49

  • Montale's Essential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale In English

    by Alessandro Baruffi

    Eugenio Montale’s idiosyncratic poetry has challenged many English-language translators because of its obscure, often cryptic language. This essential anthology of Montale's work, the latest and most comprehensive English translation of this century, features poems from his masterpiece collections "Ossi di Seppia" (Cuttlefish Bones, 1925,) "Le Occasioni" (The Occasions, 1939,) and "Xenia” (1966.) ... Read more

    € 6,95 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exile At Last

    Selected Poems

    by Chava Rosenfarb and 1 more

    series Essential Poets series
    When Chava Rosenfarb arrived in Montreal in February 1950, she was already a published poet with one acclaimed volume, Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad of Yesterday? Forest) to her credit. She was also a Holocaust survivor who, after being liberated from Bergen Belsen in 1945 had crossed the border illegally into Belgium, where she lived with her mother, sister and husband, all Holocaust ... Read more

    € 8,82 or Free with Kobo Plus