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1) Poems
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Dive into one of the most important figures in American poetry, Emily Dickinson's iconic collection. Characterised by three distinct periods, a sentimental tone lies in her work dating up to the American Civil War, followed by her most creative period and finally rounding off with her last notes before her death in 1886. A major influence on film, music and culture today, fans of Apple TV+'s 'Dickinson' series and the 2016 biographical film 'A Quiet...
2) Poems
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Description
Presents a selection of ballads, narrative poems, epigrams, odes, and other poetry, from "Mandalay" and "If" to less-familiar poems.
3) Frost
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Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 17 cm.
Description
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.
5) Poems
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Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 17 cm
Description
An anthology by a poet who committed suicide. In Lady Lazarus, she wrote: "Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. / I do it so it feels like hell. / I do it so it feels real. / I guess you could say I've a call." A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally...
11) Pope: poems
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 17 cm
Description
"A selection of the greatest works of the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, selected by Claude Rawson"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Uyghur poems
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 17 cm
Description
"This unprecedented collection of poems spans the rich two-thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people of Central Asia. The Uyghurs have a long and glorious history of poetry, dating from the oral epics of the second century BCE through the elegant love poetry of the medieval period and up to the present moment -- and much of it has never before been translated into English. Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes at the heart...


