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From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets set has it all. There’s something for everyone to enjoy in this 75-volume set, from
Animal Poems to
Zen Poems. Each book comes in an elegant 256-page pocket-sized hardcover edition (4 1/8" x 6 1/4"), with full-cloth covers, lovely illustrated and jewel-tone jackets, silk ribbon markers, and gold stamping. Perfect for your home library, or as a gift for any occasion.
This set includes one each of the following titles:
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry edited by Peter Washington
Animal Poems edited by John Hollander
Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Auden: Poems by W. H. Auden
Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire
Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Blake: Poems by William Blake
Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young
Browning: Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Byron: Poems by Lord Byron, G. Gordon
Chinese Erotic Poems edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Christmas Poems edited by Peter Washington
Coleridge: Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Comic Poems edited by Peter Washington
Conversation Pieces by Kurt Brown
The Dance edited by Emily Fragos
Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Doggerel edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Donne: Poems by John Donne
Eliot: Poems by T. S. Eliot
Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte
Erotic Poems edited by Peter Washington
Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin
Fatherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Friendship Poems edited by Peter Washington
Frost: Poems by Robert Frost
Garden Poems edited by John Hollander
The Great Cat edited by Emily Fragos
Haiku edited by Peter Washington
Hardy: Poems by Thomas Hardy
Herbert: Poems by George Herbert
Hopkins: Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes
Indian Love Poems edited by Meena Alexander
Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young
Keats: Poems by John Keats
Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling
Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love Letters edited by Peter Washington
Love Poems edited by Peter Washington
Love Songs and Sonnets edited by Peter Washington
Love Speaks Its Name by J. D. McClatchy
Lullabies and Poems for Children edited by Diana Secker Larson
Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander
Marvell: Poems by Andrew Marvell
Milton: Poems by John Milton
Motherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru
On Wings of Song by J. D. McClatchy
Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington
Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath
Poe: Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander
Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poems by Robert Burns
Poems of Mourning edited by Peter Washington
Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt
Poems of Sleep and Dreams edited by Peter Washington
Poems of the American West edited by Robert Mezey
Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy
Prayers edited by Peter Washington
Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rimbaud: Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
The Roman Poets edited by Peter Washington
Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
Shakespeare: Poems by William Shakespeart
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Sonnets edited by John Hollander
Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens
Tennyson: Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson
War Poems edited by Peter Washington
Whitman: Poems by Walt Whitman
Wordsworth: Poems by William Wordsworth
Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris
Everyman’s Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everyman’s Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.
Synopsis
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankinds nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed.
This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennysons seductive sea-fairies next to Poes beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridges darkly brooding “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” alongside the grandeur of Shakespeares “Full Fathom Five.” And here is Masefields “I must go down to the seas again” alongside Cavafys “Ithaka” and Stevenss “The Idea of Order at Key West.” In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planets restless waters as metaphor, mystery, and muse.
Synopsis
A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of poems from around the globe and through the ages that pay tribute to the world's great waters.
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed.
This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless waters as metaphor, mystery, and muse.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
About the Author
J. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems: Scenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, and Hazmat. He has also written two books of essays: White Paper and Twenty Questions. He has edited many other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters, and Horace: The Odes. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
Table of Contents
Foreword
SEA-FEVER
Emily Dickinson, ‘‘Exultation is the going’’
Sara Teasdale, Sea Longing
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Return
D. H. Lawrence, Mana of the Sea
William Carlos Williams, Seafarer
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Exiled
John Masefield, Sea-fever
THE CALL OF THE DEEP
John Milton, From Paradise Lost, Book VII
George Gordon, Lord Byron, From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley, From Queen Mab
John Keats, On the Sea
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sea Limits
Christina Rossetti, By the Sea
Charles Baudelaire, Man and Sea
Paul Valéry, The Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sound of the Sea
Hart Crane, Voyages, II
Slyvia Plath, Full Fathom Five
STORM AND CALM
John Donne, From The Storm
Percy Blythe Shelly, A Vision of the Sea
Victor Hugo, The Beacon in the Storm
May Swenson, A Hurricane at Sea
Arthur Hugh Clough, Qua Cursum Ventus
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, A Calm at Sea
May Swenson, The Even Sea
BALLADS
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, From The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Felicia Hemans, Casabianca
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck of the Hesperus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship
Anonymous, Trafalgar
SONGS AND CHANTEYS
William Shakespeare, From The Tempest
Anonymous, We’ll Go to Sea No More
Rudyard Kipling, Frankie’s Trade
Anonymous, The Death of Admiral Benbow
Anonymous, Hearts of Oak
Anonymous, Davey Jones’s Locker
Rudyard Kipling, A Song in Storm
John Masefield, A Pier-head Chorus
W.S. Gilbert, From H.M.S. Pinafore
Noël Coward, Matelot
Anonymous, ‘‘My bounding bark’’
Anonymous, Blow the Man Down
Anonymous, Drunken Sailor
ANTHEM, PRAYER, HYMN
James Thomson, Rule, Britannia
Anonymous, From Carmina Gadelica
Herman Melville, Father Mapple’s Hymn
George Darley, The Sea Ritual
William Whiting, The Sailors’ Hymn
SEAFARERS
John Milton, From Paradise Lost, Book XI
Homer, From The Odyssey, Book XII
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, From Ulysses
Constantine Cavafy, Ithaka
William Morris, Song of the Argonauts
Anonymous, The Seafarer
Joaquin Miller, Columbus
George Gordon, The Pirate
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Old Ironsides
Archibald MacLeish, Seafarer
WRECKS AT SEA
W.S. Merwin, The Shipwreck
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Robert Lowell, The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
William Meredith, The Wreck of the Thresher
LEGENDS
William Shakespeare, From Richard III
Walt Whitman, The World Below the Brine
Thomas Campion, In Praise of Neptune
W.S. Merin, Leviathan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Mermaid
Elinor Wylie, Sea Lullaby
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe, The City in the Sea
Conrad Aiken, Atlantis
Walter de la Mare, Sunk Lyonesse
ABOVE AND BEYOND
Herman Melville, The Berg
Herman Melville, The Tuft of Kelp
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Seaweed
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Lighthouse
READING THE WAVES
Robert Frost, Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Marianne Moore, A Grave
Amy Clampitt, Marine Surface, Low Overcast
Herman Melville, Billy in the Darbies
Waleter de la Mare, Echoes
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘‘Break, break, break’’
Genevieve Taggard, Sea-change
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Crossing the Bar
Hart Crane, At Melville’s Tomb
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Louise Bogan, Putting to Sea
Emily Dickinson, ‘‘I started early’’
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West
T.S. Eliot, Marina
Walt Whitman, As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors