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World poetry: an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time

World poetry: an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time
Author:
Katharine Washburn
Publisher:
Norton
Release Date:
1998
ISBN-10:
0393041301
ISBN-13:
9780393041309
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About World poetry: an anthology of verse from antiquity to our time

This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many worlds of poetry, poetry of all styles, of all eras, of all tongues: from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and the Pharaoh Akhnaten's "Hymn to the Sun" to the haiku of Basho and the dazzling imagery of Li Po; from Vedic hymns to Icelandic sagas to the "Carmina Burana"; from the magnificence of Homer and Dante to the lyricism of Goethe and Verlaine; from the piercing insights of Rilke and Yeats to the revelatory verse of Emily Dickinson, Garcia Lorca, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and many more. While World Poetry includes a generous selection of the best English-language verse from Chaucer to the present, it is designed to lay before the…

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