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The Three Gifts
A Story About Three Angels and the Baby Jesus

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"One day in Heaven, a long time ago God summoned three angels before Him. He told them to sing of the birth of His son And to take Him three gifts...
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Robert Southwell
Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape, 1586-95

Manchester University Press
It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell’s poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a...
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World Enough
Poems

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In World Enough, Maureen N. McLane maps a universe of feeling and thought via skyscapes, city strolls, lunar vistas, and passages through environments given...
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Morning Song
Poems for New Parents

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Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the...
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Other Flowers
Uncollected Poems

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A COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED POEMS FROM ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE POETIC VOICES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY of an evening real as paint on canvas. The kind...
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The Poetry of Rilke

North Point Press
For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, “Rilke’s best contemporary translator” (Brian Phillips, The New Republic),...
  
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All the Whiskey in Heaven
Selected Poems

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A NEW RETROSPECTIVE OF ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST INNOVATIVE POETS All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernstein’s best work from the past thirty...
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Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker
The Complete Correspondence

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I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.—with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little...
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Poems 1959-2009

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These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in...
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100 Essential American Poems

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
The way we view our nation---its history, its traditions, even our distinctly American voice---is largely determined by our literature. In this rewarding and...

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The Odyssey
The Fitzgerald Translation

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The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern...
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Robert Frost's Poems

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A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are...
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

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A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more...
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

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The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García...
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Collected Poems

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One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime....
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Opened Ground
Selected Poems, 1966-1996

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As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of...
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The Iliad
The Fitzgerald Translation

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Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the...
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The Road Not Taken
A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems

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The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not...
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You Come Too
Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages

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A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more...
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The Sonnets
Poems of Love

St. Martin's Press
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing...
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A Poet to His Beloved
The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats

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As a young man, William Butler Yeats was deeply affected by the idea of romantic love, or, as he called it, "the old high way of love." Characteristically,...
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Omeros

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A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible...
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
A Celebration 0f Love

St. Martin's Press
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as...
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Gilgamesh
A New Rendering in English Verse

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A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of...