Selected ​Poems

Emily Dickinson - The ​Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily ​Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed." The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent: My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets.

Sylvia Plath - Ariel
This ​all-new edition of Sylvia Plath's shattering final poems--with a foreword by Robert Lowell--will appear during National Poetry Month.

Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar ​Allan Poe összes versei / The Complete Poems
"Poe-t, ​a költőt sokan az abszolút ínyencek szerzőjének tartják. Valóban nem való mindenkinek, nem olvasható nagy mennyiségben, s nem is akármikor. Főleg az utóbbi lényeges: verseinek olvasásához sajátos lelki állapot kell. Poe-t olyankor érdemes elővenni, ha például úgy érezzük, kissé túlságosan sok a zajos, önelégült ember körülöttünk, és nem kapunk levegőt tőlük; ha ravatalon látjuk azt, akit soha senki nem pótolhat számunkra... Vannak őszi alkonyatok, amikor úgy tűnik: a közelgő éjszaka benyomja ránk az ablaküveget, és a besüvítő hideg ellen nem tudunk védekezni. Ilyenkor gyógyítanak Poe tompa tónusú, ólomsúlyú szavai, rímes bánatai, időmértékes szorongásai, lebegő iszonyatai, rejtelmes, anyagtalan víziói; talán úgy, ahogy megfelelő adagokban, szérum formájában a betegség kórokozói meggyógyítják a betegséget. A kötet Poe kísérteties tájaira kalauzol - ahová a költő is menekült a szorongató élet valósága elől." (Baróti Szabolcs)

Ted Hughes - New ​Selected Poems
Made ​by Ted Hughes himself in 1995, this _New Selected Poems_ contains works from published collections - from _The Hawk in the Rain_ (1957) to _Rain-Charm for the Duchy_ (1992) - as well as uncollected poems of each decade of his writing life. Ted Hughes also included a group of new poems, some of which appeared later in _Birthday Letters_ (1998). 'The poetry of Hughes has brought us, in the most exact sense, closer to nature, its complete workings, than any English poet we can think of, including Clare and Hardy... It is a poetry of exultation.' Derek Walcott Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, _The Hawk in the Rain_, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, _Tales from Ovid_ (1997) and _Birthday Letters_ (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

Seamus Heaney - Opened ​Ground
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 his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."

e. e. cummings - e. ​e. cummings 99 verse
Már ​nevének szokatlan helyesírása is sejteti, hogy Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) afféle irodalmi fenegyerek volt, elszánt újító és bálványdöntögető. Verseinek olvastán első érzésünk alighanem a berzenkedés, a "Mi akar ez lenni?" fanyalgása, amíg rá nem jövünk, hogy a tipográfiai és ortográfiai trükkök és bonyodalmak mögött egy alapjában naiv, romantikus és kamaszos szenvedélyű, a leghagyományosabb értelemben költői költő rejtőzik, és próbál - általában több, mint kevesebb sikerrel - huszadik századi érvényt szerezni egyszerű és egyértelmű közlendőinek: hogy az élet szép, a háború aljas és az egyéniség nagy érték. Cummings festő is volt, és verseiben is nagy szerepet játszik a vizuális elem: a szavak, illetve a betűk szokatlan elrendezésével sugallja tárgyával kapcsolatos érzelmeit, a látványok és helyzetek átélésének az egyszeri pillanatokba zsúfolódó és a nyelv hagyományos eszközeivel megragadhatatlan képlékenységét.

Emily Dickinson - Emily ​Dickinson versei
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Emily Dickinson - The ​Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Initially ​a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Originally branded an eccentric, Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth.

William Carlos Williams - The ​Collected Poems
A ​poet of astonishing range and inventiveness, Williams was at once a daring formal innovator, one of the band of modernists who transformed American poetry, and an intimate, sometimes savagely frank chronicler of the life and landscape of his native New Jersey. From the beginning he pursued an independent course, creating a diverse and unfailingly vital body of work, from the hard-edged experiments of Spring and All to the fluent lyricism of "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower." His influence on generations of poets has been indelible, and as this masterful new selection demonstrates, his poems retain their capacity to astonish and delight.

Roberto Bolaño - The ​Romantic Dogs
Roberto ​Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit.

John Keats - Poetical ​Works
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Sophie Hannah - Early ​Bird Blues
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Mary Oliver - Why ​I Wake Early
The ​forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.

William Butler Yeats - Early ​Poems
One ​of the greatest poets of the century, Yeats drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes and others are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 poems published between 1889 and 1914. Included are such favorites as "Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," "Down by the Salley Gardens," "The Stolen Child," "Fergus and the Druid," "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time," "The Song of Wandering Aengus," "The Fascination of What’s Difficult" and many more.

Derek Walcott - The ​Bounty
The ​Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. "For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves," Walcott's great contemporary Joseph Brodsky once observed. "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language."

Les Murray - Learning ​Human
A ​bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language, past, present, and future. Learning Human contains the poems he considers his best: 137 poems written since 1965, presented here in roughly chronological order, and including a dozen poems published for the first time in this book. Murray has distinguished between what he calls the "Narrowspeak" of ordinary affairs, of money and social position, of interest and calculation, and the "Wholespeak" of life in its fullness, of real religion, and of poetry. Poetry, he proposes, is the most human of activities, partaking of reason, the dream, and the dance all at once -- "the whole simultaneous gamut of reasoning, envisioning, feeling, and vibrating we go through when we are really taken up with some matter, and out of which we may act on it. We are not just thinking about whatever it may be, but savouring it and experiencing it and wrestling with it in the ghostly sympathy of our muscles. We are alive at full stretch towards it." He explains: "Poetry models the fullness of life, and also gives its objects presence. Like prayer, it pulls all the motions of our life and being into a concentrated true attentiveness to which God might speak." The poems gathered here give us a poet who is altogether alive and at full stretch toward experience. Learning Human, an ideal introduction to Les Murray's poetry, suggests the variety, the intensity, and the generosity of this great poet's work so far.

Simon Armitage - CloudCuckooLand
From ​his home in a West Yorkshire village proverbially associated with cuckoos, Simon Armitage has been probing the night sky with the aid of a powerful Russian telescope. The sequence of eighty-eight poems at the heart of CloudCuckooLand springs from this preoccupation, each poem receiving its title from one of the constellations, while turning out to be less concerned with pure astronomy than with moments in the life of the poet's mind. Celestial themes loom large elsewhere, with a number of metaphysical poems towards the beginning of the book, and a play based on events around a total eclipse of the sun at the end. This dramatic _tour de force_ was commissioned by the National Theatre for performance by young adults, and confirms Armitage as one of our true poetic experimenters, ceaselessly exploring and making his artistic discoveries without ever losing the confidence of his audience.

Simon Armitage - Out ​of the Blue
The ​poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film _Out Of The Blue_ was commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9.11 attacks on America. It won the 2006 Royal Television Society Documentary Award. _We May Allow Ourselves A Brief Period Of Rejoicing_ (a quote from one of Churchill's post-war speeches), was also commissioned by Channel 5, and broadcast on the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day. The radio-poem _Cambodia_ was commissioned by the BBC for _The Violence of Silence,_ a radio drama set in today's Cambodia thirty years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

Rudyard Kipling - Poesie
Frutto ​di una pluralità di esperienze umane (che vanno dall’India all’Europa, dall’America al Sudafrica), di entusiasmi e disincanti, di una capacità espressiva totale, che trascina tutto in sé, queste poesie scelte, per la maggior parte poco conosciute (tranne le classiche Se... e Il fardello dell’uomo bianco), ci rivelano il volto di uno scrittore tormentato dalla precarietà e dalla problematicità della condizione esistenziale e troppo superficialmente identificato per un certo tempo con una Inghilterra snobistica, colonialista e imperialista.

Robert Browning - The ​Pied Piper Of Hamelin
Robert ​Browning’s famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest treasure, the children of the town. Color reproductions of Kate Greenaway’s beautiful, delicate watercolor illustrations adorn every page.