Harvest Books, March 2000. Trade Paperback. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make..... More

Oxford University Press, January 1970. Trade Paperback. More

Library of America, September 1993. First Edition. Cloth. In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents..... More

Yale Nota Bene, February 2001. Paper Back. A survey of the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse. John Hollander illustrates each variation with a self-descriptive example. In this third edition, he adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has described. Gently..... More

Penguin Books, May 1991. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. Some cover wear. More

Palettes & Quills, September 2011. First Edition. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound, & without markings. Publisher release page laid in. 76 pages. More

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, July 2007. Trade Paperback. Homer's great epic The Odyssey--one of Western literature's most enduring and important works--translated by Richmond Lattimore A classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus' journey home after the Trojan War--and the obstacles he faces along the way to reclaim his throne..... More

Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, September 2023. Hardcover. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte..... More

Atria Books, February 2011. Paper Back. The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry. Written from the heart, When Angels..... More

Penguin Classics, 1953-12-30. Trade Paperback. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus and the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to..... More

W. W. Norton & Company, November 1977. Hardcover. Early in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace adopts one persona after another, each of..... More

The Norton Library, January 1964. Trade Paperback. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Moderate wear to cover with superficial creasing, edgewear and toning. Previous owner's name inked and a previous dealer's large rubber stamp compete for space first inside page. [200 pages plus five page list of available Norton titles.]. More