Synopses & Reviews
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 Everymans Library Pocket Poets set has it all. Theres 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
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Synopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.
Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of ones own experience. From the embattled farmers who “fired the shot heard round the world” in the stirring “Concord Hymn,” to the flower in “The Rhodora,” whose existence demonstrates “that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,” Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature.
Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emersons poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.
About the Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications Essays and Nature.
Table of Contents
From
POEMS (1847)The Rhodora
The Humble-Bee
Fable
Astræa
Etienne de la Boe´ce
Suum Cuique
Compensation
Forbearance
Berrying
Thine Eyes Still Shined
Eros
Loss and Gain
Hamatreya
The Snow-Storm
Painting and Sculpture
Holidays
From the Persian of Hafiz
Ghaselle
Xenophanes
The Days Ration
Blight
Musketaquid
Hymn (‘By the rude bridge that arched the flood)
The Sphinx
Each and All
The Problem
To Rhea
The Visit
Uriel
The World-Soul
From MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES (1867)
Brahma
Nemesis
Fate
Freedom
Ode Sung in the Town Hall
Boston Hymn
Love and Thought
Lovers Petition
Una
Letters
Rubies
Merlins Song
The Test
Nature I
Nature II
The Romany Girl
My Garden
The Titmouse
Days
Sea-Shore
Two Rivers
Waldeinsamkeit
Terminus
The Past
Experience
Compensation
Culture
Politics
Heroism
Character
Friendship
Beauty
Manners
Art
Spiritual Laws
Unity
Worship
Quatrains
From SELECTED POEMS (1876)
The Nuns Aspiration
Hymn (‘We love the venerable house)
Cupido
Boston
Silence
The Three Dimensions
Motto to ‘The Poet
Motto to ‘Gifts
Motto to ‘Nature
Motto to ‘Nominalist and Realist
Motto to ‘History
South Wind
From THE UNPUBLISHED POEMS
‘William does thy frigid soul
‘Perhaps thy lot in life is higher
Song
‘I spread my gorgeous sail
‘O what is Heaven but the fellowship
‘Ah strange strange strange
‘See yonder leafless trees against the sky
‘Do that which you can do
‘Few are free
Van Buren
The Future
Rex
‘And when I am entombed in my place
‘Bard or dunce is blest, but hard
‘It takes philosopher or fool
‘Tell men what they knew before
‘I use the knife
‘There is no evil but can speak
‘The sea reflects the rosy sky
‘In this sour world, O summerwind
‘Look danger in the eye it vanishes
‘As I walked in the wood
‘I sat upon the ground
‘Good Charles the springs adorer
‘Around the man who seeks a noble end
‘In the deep heart of man a poet dwells
‘O what are heroes prophets men
‘Yet sometime to the sorrow stricken
The Bohemian Hymn
‘Kind & holy were the words
‘Divine Inviters! I accept
‘Go if thou wilt ambrosial Flower
‘In Walden wood the chickadee
‘Star seer Copernicus
‘At last the poet spoke
‘I grieve that better souls than mine
Nantasket
Water
‘Where the fungus broad & red
‘From the stores of eldest Matter
‘And the best gift of God
‘Stout Sparta shrined the god of Laughter
‘Brother, no decrepitude
‘Who knows this or that
‘Saadi loved the new & old
‘And as the light divided the dark
‘When devils bite
‘Comfort with a purring cat
‘I cannot find a place so lonely
‘This shining hour is an edifice
‘The sparrow is rich in her nest
‘Bended to fops who bent to him
Elizabeth Hoar
‘Cloud upon cloud
‘Since the devil hopping on
‘Poets are colorpots
‘Thanks to those who go & come
‘I must not borrow light
‘Comrade of the snow & wind
‘God only knew how Saadi dined
‘Friends to me are frozen wine
‘That each should in his house abide
New England Capitalist
‘On a raisin stone
‘Go out into Nature and plant trees
‘Pale Genius roves alone
‘Burn your literary verses
‘Intellect gravely broods apart on joy
‘The civil world will much forgive
‘Mask thy wisdom with delight
‘Roomy Eternity
Terminus
‘More sweet than my refrain
‘O Boston city lecture-hearing
‘A patch of meadow & upland
‘And he like me is not too proud
‘Park & ponds are good by day
‘For Lyra yet shall be the pole
‘A score of airy miles will smooth
‘All things rehearse
‘Pedants all
‘I leave the book, I leave the wine
‘Easy to match what others do
‘If wishes would carry me over the land
Maia
‘Seyd planted where the deluge ploughed
‘Forbore the ant hill, shunned to tread
‘Borrow Uranias subtile wings
‘The comrade or the book is good
‘Is the pace of nature slow?
‘Why honor the new men
‘Think not the gods receive thy prayer
‘Inspired we must forget our books
‘Upon a rock yet uncreate
LONGER POEMS
Woodnotes I
May-Day
The Adirondacs
From The Poet