Books and Libraries: Poems

di Various (Autore)

Andrew Scrimgeour (Curatore)

Andrew Scrimgeour (Curatore)

Everyman, 2021

A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their veneration. For Emily Dickinson they are frigates that 'take us Lands away'; for Wordsworth they are 'a substantial world, both pure and good'; Alberto Rios calls them 'the deli offerings of civilization itself'. This affection extends to the hallowed gathering places of the written word: libraries where one can best hear "a choir of authors murmuring inside their books," as Billy Collins has it; bookshops, especially second-hand ones, 'too small for the worlds they hold, where words that sing you to sleep, stories that stalk your dreams, open like windows in a wall' (Gillian Clarke). The poets collected here include Catullus, Horace, T'ao Ch'ien, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ronsard, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Marvell, Blake, Pope and Keats; more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.

• Autore: Various
• Curatore: Andrew Scrimgeour, Andrew Scrimgeour
• Editore: Everyman
• Collana: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 160 x 111 mm
• Peso: 241 gr.
• EAN: 9781841598239

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