The Four Seasons: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

The Four Seasons: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of the imagination, and the pages of this collection celebrating the four seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery.Â

Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson, and Thoreau, from Keats, Blake, and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Mary Oliver, and W. S. Merwin. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly time or as states of mind or as the physical expressions of the ineffable. From Robert Frostâ€™s tribute to the evanescence of spring in â€œNothing Gold Can Stayâ€ to Langston Hughesâ€™s moody â€œSummer Nightâ€ in Harlem, from the â€œstopped woodsâ€ in Marie Ponsotâ€™s â€œEnd of Octoberâ€ to the chilling â€œmind of winterâ€ in Wallace Stevensâ€™s â€œThe Snow Man,â€ the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage the world outside ourselves.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780307268341
Color White
ReleaseDate 2008-06-03
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307268341

The Four Seasons: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)