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A.A. Milne · 102 pages
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-1996
Seamus Heaney · 479 pages
Seamus Heaney (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1995) gathered over 200 of his best poems in this collection, selected from twelve of his previous books of published poetry. The selection covers the period 1966 - 1996. It also contains his Nobel Lecture, "Crediting Poetry", since, as the author explains, "the ground covered in the lecture is ground originally opened by the poems which h
Omeros
Derek Walcott · 325 pages
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 history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 130 pages
Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history. 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked' Beat movement icon and visionary poet, All
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others
Candace Ward · 64 pages
The Real Mother Goose
Blanche Fisher Wright · 128 pages
An illustrated collection of popular nursery rhymes, reprinted from the 1916 original.
Cautionary Tales for Children
Hilaire Belloc · 79 pages
Designed for the admonition of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years.
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition
Gertrude Stein · 50 pages
Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words - clustered, juxtaposed, redefined and played off one another - to subterfuge their common meanings, which Stein felt had become watered down, and to re-infuse them with expressive force.