Poems Of Mourning
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 October 1998
Summary
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with death, but all are about loss.
The poems chosen traverse a surprisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resignation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty. All the major verse forms of mourning are represented here: epitaph, requiem and lament. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857157369 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1857157362 |
| Author: | Peter Washington |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 1998 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 110mm x 165mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
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Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman’s Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library’s Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams.
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