Poems from the Satsai (Biharilal)(Pevná vazba)

Poems from the Satsai (Biharilal)(Pevná vazba)

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows. In his Satsai, or Seven Hundred Poems, the seventeenth-century poet Biharilal draws on a rich vernacular tradition, blending amorous narratives about the god

Erotic Poems - Selected Poems (Washington Peter)(Pevná vazba)

In a volume which follows on from and complements the Everyman Pocket LOVE POEMS, we have assembled a wide range erotic verse from ancient India and China to present-day Britain. The poems follow a loose narrative sequence in which all aspects of erotic love are

100 Poems (Heaney Seamus)(Pevná vazba)

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. But now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and

The Adventure (Agamben Giorgio)(Pevná vazba)

Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and

Villanelles (Various)(Pevná vazba)

The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century - by Thomas Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Oscar Wilde and others - to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night,' Elizabeth Bishop's 'One Art' and Sylvia

The Spiritual Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (Rumi)(Pevná vazba)

Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on spirituality from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi--commonly referred to

Picturehouse Poems - Poems About the Movies (Various)(Pevná vazba)

Poems of the American South(Pevná vazba)

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically

Three Hundred Tang Poems (Harris Peter)(Pevná vazba)

A new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture--a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China's greatest poets. These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)--an age in which poetry and the arts flourished--were gathered in

Harmony: poems to find peace - Whitney Hanson

From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the progression of a life through the elements of musicIn this collection of all new poems, Whitney Hanson explores the progression of a life through the lens of music. We each begin with a simple note, but as life

The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (Rumi)(Pevná vazba)

Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi--commonly referred to simply

100 Poems to Break Your Heart (Hirsch Edward)(Pevná vazba)

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we

Three Hundred Tang Poems (Harris Peter)(Pevná vazba)

These some three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)-an age in which poetry and the arts flourished-were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes

Romanticism: 100 Poems (Ferber Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Choosing one hundred poems from what many consider to be the greatest era of poetry is no small feat. Michael Ferber's refreshing collection includes seminal Romantic poems alongside lesser-known gems. Embodying the urgent international contexts of the Romantic movement, this transatlantic

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Pevná vazba)

Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet's own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of

Claw the System: Poems from the Cat Uprising (Marciuliano Francesco)(Pevná vazba)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Could Pee on This, Francesco Marciuliano, comes a lesson from cats in resistance. Cats are done with humans' crap. For too long they have put up with baby talk, the humiliation of holiday costumes, and the social injustice of being told, 'No.' They

Emerson Poems (Emerson Ralph Waldo)(Pevná vazba)

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

The Complete Old English Poems (Williamson Craig)(Pevná vazba)

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve,

A Little History of Poetry (Carey John)(Pevná vazba)

John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from those by Dante and Chaucer to more recent poets, such as Derek Walcott and Maya Angelou. This little history shines a light on the richness and variation of the world's poems--and the elusive quality which makes them all the more

Escape Plan (Normal Henry)(Pevná vazba)

The Escape Plan includes all of the poems from Henry Normal's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 shows, together with the most popular poems from each of his previous collections. 'Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal.' - Radio Times'The Alan Bennett of poetry' - The

A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library (Formigatti Camillo A.)(Pevná vazba)

This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the book presents episodes from the adventures of young

No Art - Poems (Lerner Ben (Y))(Pevná vazba)

From the author of the bestselling novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, here is a dazzling collection of award-winning poetry - available for the first time to readers beyond the

Places of Poetry - Mapping the Nation in Verse(Pevná vazba)

We are delighted to present the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches. This anthology brings together time-honoured classics with some of

Poems Of Friendship (Washington Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems, to which it is a companion, the present selection draws on the literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and