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Collection of Haiku poetry from Basho to Shiki
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Lu Xun his Classical Style Verse Chinese literature poetry
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154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets with accompanying footnotes. Several academic essays, including one by Robert Graves on punctuation, at back of this book
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If you are unfamilary with Granta, it is a fabulous collection of images, fiction and non fiction, myth and lore, poetry and culture centered around a theme. The theme of this book is INDIA
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A historical and critical analysis of Irish poetry from 1167 to 1798, this volume - a new revised edition of the outstanding work on the subject -- deals with poetry in the English language written by an Irishman or Anglo-Irishman and inspired by Ireland or its people.
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Best known in America for his 900 page trilogy, was Olsons, and as a prize-winning dramatist, Philip FREUND. makes his first appearance as a lyric poet in private speech. of all the poems in this long book, only one has ever appeared in print before.
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Beata Grant has uncovered among Su Shih's voluminous writings an extraordinarily wide range of Buddhist related poems, hymns, essays, and other writings that attest to Buddhism's importance in the literary culture of this period.
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Following a concise explanation of the basic rhetoric of Japanese poetry, Mostow examines the Hyakunin Isshu in its varying historical contexts, both at the time of its compilation -- as part of the tradition of exemplary anthologies in Japanese poetry and within the context of Teika's poetics and aesthetic criteria
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New Poems by Contemporary American Poets turn of century
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Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery.
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The famous eighteenth-century English critic Samuel Johnson created the term metaphysical poets to describe Donne and the poets he influenced, a group that included George Herbert and Andrew Marvell
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Two volume set of Rilke books, Letters to a Young Poet and Duino Elegies
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In 1956, the collection was augmented by the addition of the poem Elegy, for which sixty pages of manuscript lines and notes were found in Thomas's papers after his death, and which was edited by his friend, the poet Vernon Watkins
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The traditional story of the night before Christmas set in Colorado
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His idiom conforms to his subject, he is jazzy when writing sensually of jazz; rustic when speeding through the green countryside on an express train; and philosophical when versifying about books South China Morning Post
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