Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure
10 best books like Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (The American Poetry and Literacy Project): Chicago Poems, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The 100 Best Poems of All Time, Farming, a Hand Book, Auden: Poems, Great Sonnets, Come, Thief, Strong is Your Hold, Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
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 | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759344 |
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
| Author | Leslie Pockell |
| ISBN | 0446676810 |
Some great poetry; I tried to read one or two to start off each day. Two new favorites:
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0156301717 |
The America many people would like to believe in is convincingly explored in this volume of poems by a writer close to the heart of things. The sanity and eloquence of these poems spring from the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. From classic pastoral themes...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0679443673 |
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One...
| Author | Paul Negri |
| ISBN | 0486280527 |
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge,...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0307595420 |
A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms.
Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself...
| Author | Galway Kinnell |
| ISBN | 0618224971 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Galway Kinnell's first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, with a bound-in CD of poems read by the author
Here is the eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell, whom the New York Times has called "one of the true master poets of his generation." In this striking...
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0451527879 |
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part...
| Author | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ISBN | 0486270521 |
Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems
In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung one of the most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge. The marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett...
| Author | Candace Ward |
| ISBN | 0486295680 |
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself.
This volume contains a rich...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0143104950 |
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
| Author | Shane Weller |
| ISBN | 0486272842 |
One 65-minute cassette of the finest love poems in the English language from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Works by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Andrew Marvell and many others, all beautifully and sensitively read by Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren and accompanied...
| Author | Roger Housden |
| ISBN | 1400045630 |
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0553213881 |
A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester...
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| ISBN | 0486270734 |
Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote between 1798 and 1806, the period most fully represented in this...
| Author | Jim Harrison |
| ISBN | 1556591888 |
After Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser had exchanged letters and poems for years, Kooser was diagnosed with cancer. "Ted's poetry became overwhelmingly vivid," Harrison recalls. "Then we decided to correspond in short poems, because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other."
"Braided...
| Author | Walt Whitman |
| ISBN | 0486268780 |
In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through...
| Author | Philip Smith |
| ISBN | 0486285537 |
Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among...
| Author | محمد بن سليمان الجزولي |
دلائل الخيرات، أو دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار ، كتاب من تأليف محمد بن سليمان الجزولي المتوفى سنة 870 هـ، جمع فيه صيغ في الصلاة...
| Author | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| ISBN | 0670049972 |
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம்) usually referred to as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was one of India's most distinguished scientists. He was an Aerospace engineer, professor,...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0486268713 |
One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795–1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes—love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of...
Muhammad: The Messenger of God: An Analysis of the Prophet's Life
| Author | M. Fethullah Gülen |
| ISBN | 1597841374 |
I was first referred to Fethullah Gulen by Sh. Faraz Rabbani during a SunniPath seerah class after previously been completely clueless to his name. This is one of the best contemporary books that I have read on the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). It is not a work of seerah, rather, it is more...
| Author | Adil Salahi |
| ISBN | 0860373274 |
The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world. Adil Salahi's compelling biography traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth and childhood to the triumph of Islam and its hold...
