In the tradition of Everyman's Animal Poems and Love Poems, this is a collection of garden poems from many centuries and cultures, written by poets ranging from Ovid to Chaucer.
In the tradition of Everyman's Animal Poems and Love Poems, this is a collection of garden poems from many centuries and cultures, written by poets ra...
A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn. From the rapturous infatuation of the "Song of Songs" to Ovid's cynical advice on 'The Art of Deceiving a Husband, ' no facet of the matrimonial state remains unexplored.
A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedd...
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why Rhymes's Reason has played an integral role in the education of young poets and student scholars.
" Hollander] put everything he knew about the structures of poetry--those fabled magic tricks--into a sort of guidebook for those starting out on the trail up...
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each va...
