a grief observed by cs lewis
anthology
badgers parting gifts
c s lewis
Category=DC
cookbooks
eat pray love
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
francis spufford
gone with the wind
grief works julia samuel
health
heart break me
joan didion
mental health
muddles puddles and sunshine book
never let me go
parenting
paul auster
penguin classics
philip roth
phillipa gregory books in order
poems
quentin blake
quiet susan cain
rowan williams
simone de beauvoir
six dinner sid
virginia williams
we will never let you down
were going on a bear hunt
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781857157369
- Weight: 239g
- Dimensions: 110 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 1998
- Publisher: Everyman
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty . All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. Three great elergies by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of shorter poems. Naturally, the pathos of death predominates, but its comedy has not been neglected, whether in the savage poems of World War I or the gentle teasing of seventeenth-century satire. Poets include: Akhmatova, Auden, Bishop, Brodsky, Browning, Carew, Cory, Cowley, Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Dyer, Fletcher, Graves, Gurney, Hardy, Harrison, Herrick, Hopkins, Horace, King, Leopardi, Lowell, MacCaig, Mandelstam, Milosz, Philips, Propertius, Roethke, Smith, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas and Wordsworth.
Editor's Biography.
Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams
