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Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or Carol Ann Duffy; a miniature story by Hardy, Rumi or Roethke; a pithy meditation by Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson or Lorca. Dip again, and discover the compressed wit of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash; contemporary poets Simon Armitage and Moniza Alvi at their most succinct; short poems in very odd shapes from Apollinaire and Vaclav Havel ... So few lines, so much variety- epitaphs and epigrams; couplets and quatrains; lyrics, limericks and lullabies - go on, dip again.
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Little Poems, Various authors
- Language
- Released
- 2023
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- Title
- Little Poems
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Various authors
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1841598283
- ISBN13
- 9781841598284
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Hobby, Fine Art
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or Carol Ann Duffy; a miniature story by Hardy, Rumi or Roethke; a pithy meditation by Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson or Lorca. Dip again, and discover the compressed wit of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash; contemporary poets Simon Armitage and Moniza Alvi at their most succinct; short poems in very odd shapes from Apollinaire and Vaclav Havel ... So few lines, so much variety- epitaphs and epigrams; couplets and quatrains; lyrics, limericks and lullabies - go on, dip again.