River Poems

Name: River Poems
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781841598277
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Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

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River Poems celebrates the relationship between nature and the human spirit. Through evocative language and imagery, the author presents a flowing collection of verses that explore themes of life, change, and the timeless beauty of rivers. It's a journey that invites readers to reflect on their personal connections to nature.
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You may enjoy this collection if you appreciate lyrical explorations of nature and the evocative imagery of rivers. Ideal for those who find solace in the ebb and flow of poetic expression, it delves deeply into the interplay between human experience and the natural world, offering a thoughtful journey through the landscapes of both water and words.

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An anthology which explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and across the ages.

Rivers were the arteries of our first civilisations — the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China — and have nourished modern cities from London to New York. It is natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents.

English poets from Shakespeare and Dryden, Wordsworth and Byron to Ted Hughes, John Betjeman, and Alice Oswald; Irish poets — Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, to name but a few; Scottish and Welsh poets from Henry Vaughan and Robert Louis Stevenson to Robin Robertson and Gillian Clarke. A whole raft of American poets from Whitman, Emerson, and Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, Mary Oliver, Natasha Trethewey, and Grace Paley. Folk songs. African-American spirituals. Poems from ancient Egypt and Rome. From medieval China and Japan. And a truly international selection of modern poets from Europe (France, Italy, Russia, Serbia), India, Africa, Australia, and South and Central America, all combining in celebration of the rivers of the world. From the Mississippi to the Limpopo. From the Dart to the Danube.

River Poems. Plunge in.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781841598277

Publisher: Everyman

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Everyman's Library

Contributors:

Edited by Dr Henry Hughes
Contributions by William Shakespeare
Contributions by Alice Oswald
Contributions by Seamus Heaney
Contributions by Robin Robertson
Contributions by Emily Dickinson
Contributions by Langston Hughes

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 233g

Pages: 256

Collections

Arts & Culture Classic Fiction Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Poetry Science & Nature Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

About the Author

Henry Hughes (External Editor) Henry Hughes is a poet, essayist and professor of English at Western Oregon University. He has previously edited The Art of Angling- Poems about Fishing and Fishing Stories for Everyman's Library.