The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Title | The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. McClatchy |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 690 |
Release | 1996-06-25 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0679741151 |
This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as Elizabeth Bishop, W.S. Merwin, Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney. Among the countries and writers represented are: Bangladesh--Taslima Nasrin Chile--Pablo Neruda China--Bei Dao, Shu Ting El Salvador--Claribel Alegria France--Yves Bonnefoy Greece--Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos India--A.K. Ramanujan Israel--Yehuda Amichai Japan--Shuntaro Tanikawa Mexico--Octavio Paz Nicaragua--Ernesto Cardenal Nigeria--Wole Soyinka Norway--Tomas Transtromer Palestine--Mahmoud Darwish Poland--Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz Russia--Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Senegal--Leopold Sedar Senghor South Africa--Breyten Breytenbach St. Lucia, West Indies--Derek Walcott
World Poetry
Title | World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine Washburn |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | 1338 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780393041309 |
An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century
The Library of Poetry and Song
Title | The Library of Poetry and Song PDF eBook |
Author | William Cullen Bryant |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
"A comprehensive exhibit of poetic literature" -- Preface. A collection of English and American poetry on topics such as nature and childhood.
World Poetry Anthology
Title | World Poetry Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Eddie-Lou Cole |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 718 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9780910147088 |
The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry
Title | The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | R. Victoria Arana |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | 545 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438108370 |
The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
World Poetry: "Evidence of Life"
Title | World Poetry: "Evidence of Life" PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Johanson |
Publisher | Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780766032804 |
"Discover some of the poetry of famed world poets, including: Sin-leqi-unninni, Vyasa, Homer, Du Fu, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Dante, Bashåo, Shevchenko, Tagore, Ahkmatova, Lorca, Neruda, Walcott, and Cohen"--Provided by publisher.
Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry
Title | Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Willhardt |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415163569 |
Brings a uniquely global perspective to bear on modern verse. Readers will be delighted with this comprehensive volume, providing biographical information on the greatest poets of the century, and critical accounts of their work.