Four Seasons (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

McClatchy, J D

ISBN 10: 1841597813 / ISBN 13: 9781841597812

Published by Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2008

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Everyman's Library; 2008. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Dust cover covered with removable transparent protective film. Selected and edited by J.D.McClatchy. 256 pp. A beautiful book. Seller Inventory # 0105871

Bibliographic Details

Title: Four Seasons (Everyman's Library POCKET ...

Publisher: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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 and Amy Clampitt. 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 Frost's tribute to the evanescence of spring in 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' to Langston Hughes's moody 'Summer Night' in Harlem; from the 'stopped woods' in Marie Ponsot's 'End of October' to the chilling 'mind of winter' in Wallace Stevens's 'The Snow Man', the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage with the world outside ourselves.

Book Description:

For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are a source of inspiration, and the pages of this collection celebrating the seasons are brimming with an extraordinary range of observation and imagery.