Selected Poems

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	0143039962

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...

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Ovid

Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0151686564

T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...

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Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems was published in 1916 and was Sandburg's first major volume of poetry. Most of the poems are about the city that he loved, and he viewed it as only a poet could; in it's starkness, it's beauty, and it's people. In it's first poem, the title poem, Chicago, Sandburg's first verse reads:

Hog...

Author	Wallace Stevens
ISBN	0571207790

Wallace Stevens’s verse—as exhibited in his first major work Harmonium (1923), published when he was forty-four—either jumps from one concrete sense impression to another, or else leaps beyond them all toward some particularized meditation filled with vivid imagery, lush sonority,...