Poems Of Mourning (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

ISBN 10: 1857157362 / ISBN 13: 9781857157369

Verlag: Everyman, 1998

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1751717015377

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Poems Of Mourning (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)
• Verlag: Everyman
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1857157362
• ISBN-13: 9781857157369
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Poetry

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Inhaltsangabe

Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty . All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. Three great elergies by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of shorter poems. Naturally, the pathos of death predominates, but its comedy has not been neglected, whether in the savage poems of World War I or the gentle teasing of seventeenth-century satire. Poets include: Akhmatova, Auden, Bishop, Brodsky, Browning, Carew, Cory, Cowley, Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Dyer, Fletcher, Graves, Gurney, Hardy, Harrison, Herrick, Hopkins, Horace, King, Leopardi, Lowell, MacCaig, Mandelstam, Milosz, Philips, Propertius, Roethke, Smith, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Wordsworth.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Editor's Biography. Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams