An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written, from “The Epic of Gilgamesh” to “The Waste Land”, and the poets behind them.
Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them.
The perfect introduction to poetry, “The Poetry Book” takes you on a fascinating journey through time to explore more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works.
Discover poems in all their many guises and from all over the world, from the epics of the ancient world through Japanese haikus and Renaissance sonnets to modernist masterpieces such as” The Waste Land”, and the key works of the last 50 years, from “And Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou to Derek Walcott's “Omeros.”
