Previously published as The Essential Rumi Rumi's Selected Poems is translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne in Penguin Classics Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher mystic scholar & founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul & brims with exuberant energy & passion Rich in natural imagery from horses to fishes flowers to birds & rivers to stars the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries Their themes
- tolerance goodness the experience of God charity & awareness through love
- still resonate with millions of readers around the world Coleman Barks's vibrant translation conveys the directness & originality of Rumi's poetry This edition is divided into thematic sections each with an introduction &

Includes:: a biographical essay on Rumi Called ' Jelaluddin Rumi' by the Persians & Afghans Rumi (1207-1273) was born in Balkh Afghanistan then part of the Persian Empire He was the greatest mystical poet of Persia famous for his didactic epic Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets) a treasure-house of Sufi mysticism If you enjoyed Selected Poems you might like Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Coleman Barks has provided a version of Rumi that sparkles & never flags both & otherworldly' John Ryle Guardian



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The peerless U A Fanthorpe roots herself in the very earth of English poetry connecting herself to Hughes & Browning but also & more pertinently to the real experience of English living so clear-eyed & so well completely poetic -Stephen Fry 160 pages Fanthorpe U A ...

One of the major poets of Romanticism Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world & the spontanous expression of feeling This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life including extracts from his masterpiece The Prelude & the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ' Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' ' Tintern Abbey' 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' ' Lucy Gray' & ' Michael' Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range & power but the sustained & coherent vision that informed his work ...

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh & accessible approach to English Literature This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level & undergraduate students Written by established literature experts York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis a range of critical perspectives & wider contexts ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Katherine Mc Gowran Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific & popular poet Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry exploring loss & unattainable hope Her divine poems have a freshness & toughness of thought while many of her love poems are erotic & as often express love for women as for men The varied threads of Rossetti's concerns are drawn together in what is perhaps her greatest poem the strange & ambiguous ' Goblin Market' ...

When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished But in the years since his death his work has come to be cherished for its rare sustained vision of the natural world & as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare) This edition drawn from Thomas's manuscripts & typescripts as well as from his published works offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant
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- of poets' In his lifetime he was known & loved by a very loving few Now since his death he is known & loved by very many & yearly this is more so There is in his poems & unassumingly profound sense of permanence A war came & ditched him but his poems stay with no other wounds than those which caused them' Dylan Thomas 'A very fine poet & a poet all in his own right The accent is absolutely his own' Robert Frost' The one hundred & forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious' Michael Longley

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When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished But in the years since his death his work has come to be cherished for its rare sustained vision of the natural world & as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare) This new edition offers a selection of some of Thomas's most memorable nature poetry This heart some fraction of me happily Floats through the window even now to a tree Down in the misting dim-lit quiet vale Not like a pewit that returns to wail For something it has lost but like a dove That slants unswerving to its home & love--Beauty ...

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh & accessible approach to English Literature This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level & undergraduate students Written by established literature experts York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis a range of critical perspectives & wider contexts ...

With an Introduction Bibliography & Glossary by Dr Paul Wright Trinity College Carmarthen 'I mean to show things really as they are not as they ought to be' wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe & near East which Byron knew so well touching on the major political cultural & social concerns of the day This selection

Includes:: all of that poem & selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage & the satirical poems ' English Bards & Scotch Reviewers' & 'A Vision of Judgement' Paul Wright's detailed introductions place Byron's colourful life & work within their broader social & political contexts & demonstrate that Byron both fostered & critiqued the notorious ' Byronic myth' of heroic adventure political action & sexual scandal

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The perfect gift for Valentine's Day Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant exploratory intensely individualistic verse rooted in the physical landscape & people of Chile Here we find sensuous songs of love tender odes to the sea melancholy lyrics of heartache fiery political statements & a frank celebration of sex This is an enticing distinctive & celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet ...