Poems Of The Sea (Everyman’s Library POCKET POETS)
£9.90£11.40 (-13%)
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed.
This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson’s seductive sea-fairies next to Poe’s beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge’s darkly brooding “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare’s “Full Fathom Five.” And here is Masefield’s “I must go down to the seas again” alongside Cavafy’s “Ithaka” and Stevens’s “The Idea of Order at Key West.” In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet’s restless
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Additional information
| Publisher | Everyman (28 Sept. 2001) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1841597465 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1841597461 |
| Dimensions | 11.3 x 2 x 16.5 cm |
by CT
Yes! Had most of the poems that my wife wanted.
by BETH/MIDLANDS
Interesting poetry that fires the imagination but is soothing and helps with the stress levels
by Patricia
Excellent just as I expected
by Mr W.J.Lang
Good book if your part of the Sea
by Yogi
Excellent content in a well bound and well presented book
by Rockymodo
Still have to read it but very pleased…
by Ann Davies
Bought as a present for a boat man. Looks nice enough, arrived well packaged & on time.