Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140004197X ISBN 13: 9781400041978

Verlag: KNOPF, 2004

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Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers.<br><br>This treasury of poets&#8211;Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more&#8211;encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the tragic. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Auden&#8217;s &#8220;Lullaby&#8221; to Rossetti&#8217;s &#8220;Nuptial Sleep,&#8221; from Salvatore Quasimodo&#8217;s &#8220;Insomnia&#8221; to Thom Gunn&#8217;s &#8220;Annihilation of Nothing,&#8221; <i>Poems of Sleep and Dreams</i> evokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep and dream.

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Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including&#160;<i>Love Poems</i>, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's&#160;<i>Baboon: A History of the Mystics,&#160;Mediums, </i>and<i> Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.&#160;</i>

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• Verlag: KNOPF
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 140004197X
• ISBN 13: 9781400041978
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Washington Peter
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