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Friendship Poems by Peter Washington
$31.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A companion to Love Poems and Erotic Poems, this selection draws on literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and antipathy.
Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy; Peter Washington
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Distinguished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy's writing career spanned more than 60 years. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is the poet of remembrance and tender regret; but he is also an ironist with sharp observations of human frailty.
Kipling: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Rudyard Kipling
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and ...Show more
Love Letters by Peter Washington
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
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Love Poems by WASHINGTON PETER
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, ...Show more
Poems of Sleep and Dreams by Ed. Peter Washington
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets-Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath ...Show more
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less than thirty years. The main key to Rumi's ...Show more
Russian Poets by Ed. Peter Washington
$37.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth cent ...Show more
The Roman Poets by Peter Washington
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogu ...Show more
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