$31.09
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
An anthology which explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and across the ages.
Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations—the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China—and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it is natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents.
English poets from Shakespeare and Dryden, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841598277 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841598275 |
| Author: | Dr Henry Hughes, William Shakespeare, Alice Oswald, Seamus Heaney, Robin Robertson, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 111mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
About The Author
Dr Henry Hughes
Henry Hughes is a poet, essayist and professor of English at Western Oregon University. He has previously edited The Art of Angling- Poems about Fishing and Fishing Stories for Everyman’s Library.
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