Little Poems (Everymans Library POCKET POETS) le plus cher by Michael Hennessy NEUF

Product Name: Little Poems (Everymans Library POCKET POETS) le plus cher by Michael Hennessy NEUF
EAN：9781841598284 UPC：9781841598284 ISBN：9781841598284 MPN：N/A Format：Hardback, 256 pages
From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong- a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through the ages

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or Carol Ann Duffy; a miniature story by Hardy, Rumi or Roethke; a pithy meditation by Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson or Lorca. Dip again, and discover the compressed wit of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash; contemporary poets Simon Armitage and Moniza Alvi at their most succinct; short poems in very odd le plus cher shapes from Apollinaire and Vaclav Havel ... So few lines, so much variety- epitaphs and epigrams; couplets and quatrains; lyrics, limericks and lullabies - go on, dip again..