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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogues and the grandeur of his epic line, the unsurpassable lyricism-by turns tender, incisive, and scabrous-of Catullus's elegies and satires, the philosophical...
5) Poems
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In the delightfully small Pocket Poets format, a selection of the poems of Langston Hughes -- one of America's greatest popular poets since Walt Whitman. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure...
8) Poems
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova that explore a wide range of topics related to religion, politics, social injustice, love, loss, and tragedy
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