Elegies of Love

Duffy's first collection as Poet Laureate, it includes love poems, elegies, drinking songs and poems of political anger. New edition.

Tibullus was one of the great Roman elegists, alongside Ovid and Propertius. His poems of love, addressed to his mistresses Delia and Nemesis and t...

Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the dail...

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes appar...

The two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living - friend...

The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger a...

Reducere. A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" (The Guardian)The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of ...

A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Th...

Reducere. Description"This is the stuff of life, the very essence of the poetic." -LitHub For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheava...

Reducere. "The delicate arc of these poems intimates--rather than tells--a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richi...

Contributor(s): Author: Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTranslator: David LukeIntroduction by: David LukeGoethe viewed the writing of poetry as essential...

Reducere. Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring" poems. Dancing brilliantly between Eastern and We...

Reducere. In 2012 Matthew Wimberley took a two-month journey, traveling and living out of his car, during which time he had planned to spread his father's as...

Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...

Reducere. Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured...

Reducere. DescriptionBrenda Hillman begins her new book in a place of mourning and listening that is deeply transformative. By turns plain and transcendent, ...

Now in paperback, this stunning collection of elegies--a finalist for the National Book Award--bears witness to the small beauties and inevitable l...

Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. Longley's poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variet...

Reducere. Loretta Diane Walker's latest collection of poetry takes readers on a journey through grief. These are a daughter's heartfelt and poignent elegies ...

Reducere. Gladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm From his harvest on faraway isles; If only I too were homeward bound; Yet what harvest have I but...

Reducere. For nearly thirty-five years, Wendell Berry has been at work on a series of poems occasioned by his solitary Sunday walks around his farm in Kentuc...

Reducere. Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little ...

Reducere. This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as ``A Valedict...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Garcia's third poetry collection, [ELEGIES], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism and...

Reducere. Pretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until ...

Reducere. "We as readers get to enjoy an experience akin to serendipity-the gift of an unlooked-for connection that answers questions we didn't know we had.....

Reducere. Mart n Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness, " says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant eleg...

Reducere. DescriptionSpanning thirty years of dazzling work--from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from poli...

Reducere. After the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912, the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy began to write a series of poems about her. Although t...

In this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary traditi...