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Poems of Mourning
Peter Washington
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Description for Poems of Mourning
Hardcover. A collection of poems on the theme of mourning by some of the world's great poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 91 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty . All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. Three great elergies by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of shorter poems. ... Read more
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty . All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. Three great elergies by Milton, Whitman and Rilke are surrounded by a wide variety of shorter poems. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857157369
SKU
V9781857157369
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About Peter Washington
Editor's Biography. Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams
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