Poems Of London

Author : Christopher Reid
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593320204

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Poems of London by Christopher Reid Pdf

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by this storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today Poems of London covers a wide range of time and includes not only the pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare to Wordsworth to T. S. Eliot, but also tributes by notable visitors from all over, from Arthur Rimbaud to Samuel Beckett to Sylvia Plath, and contributions by an array of immigrants or the children of immigrants, including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patience Agbabi, and recent Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo. All the famous sights of London, from the Thames to the Tower, are touched on in this vibrant collection, and denizens of its busy streets ranging from princes to pubgoers to pickpockets wander through these pages. The result is an enthralling portrait of an endlessly varied and fascinating place. 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.

Author : Judith Chernaik,Gerard Benson,Cicely Herbert
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141389530

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Poems on the Underground by Judith Chernaik,Gerard Benson,Cicely Herbert Pdf

This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.

Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712334

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The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner Pdf

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.

Author : Robert Williams Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015063513520

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London Poems by Robert Williams Buchanan Pdf

Author : Rosemary Tonks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1780372388

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Bedouin of the London Evening by Rosemary Tonks Pdf

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Author : Jane McMorland Hunter
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781849945097

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Favourite Poems of London by Jane McMorland Hunter Pdf

An illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating life in England's capital. 'Earth hath not anything to show more fair' said Wordsworth of London in 1802. Hundreds of years on, the same can still be said of Britain's largest metropolis. Favourite Poems of London is a wonderful anthology of poetry celebrating England's capital and life as a Londoner. Verses from our best-loved authors, such as William Wordsworth, William Blake and John Betjeman among others, are accompanied by beautiful illustrations – often taken from iconic tube posters – of London's famous sights, green parks and Londoners in their daily lives. Epic poems celebrating London's vast and majestic presence sit alongside Cockney ditties about pie, mash and jellied eels in this new collection. Celebrating every aspect of 'the big smoke' – from the Houses of Parliament and the Blitz spirit, through to red double-decker buses and infamous rainy English summers – this is the perfect gift for any Londoner or visitor to the city.

Author : Patricia Toht
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Limited
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711279735

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All Aboard the London Bus by Patricia Toht Pdf

As a family of four spend a day exploring London, fun, child-friendly poems introduce readers to our wonderful capital city, and all its secrets in All Aboard the London Bus. This gorgeous celebration of London will be loved by both tourists and those who call the city home.

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60139741

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The Hypnotiser by Michael Rosen Pdf

Author : Various Poets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1907598049

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Ten Poems about London by Various Poets Pdf

Author : Mark Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674088047

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London by Mark Ford Pdf

Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one that represents all classes of London's population over some seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the city's history--the beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitz--but the majority reflect the quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries. Ford's selections are arranged chronologically, thus preserving a sense of the strata of the capital's history. An introductory essay by the poet explores in detail the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of the verse inspired by this great city. The result is a volume as rich and vibrant and diverse as London itself.

Author : Robert Williams Buchanan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0266408311

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London Poems (Classic Reprint) by Robert Williams Buchanan Pdf

Excerpt from London Poems Flowing beneath the blackness of the streets, The current of sublimer, sweeter life, Which is the source of human smiles and tears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lisa Russ Spaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015076164972

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All that Mighty Heart by Lisa Russ Spaar Pdf

Spanning 500 years and representing nearly 20 different languages and cultures, this collection of poems about London includes works by Wordsworth, Blake and Lawrence, as well as less well-known figures such as Patience Agbabi, Talvikki Ansel and Rachel Castelete.

Author : Robert Williams Buchanan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385316843

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London Poems by Robert Williams Buchanan Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0461653095

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London Poems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152075695X

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London by Fiona Pitt-Kethley Pdf

Poems on London of the past.