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.
| ISBN: | 9781841598284 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2023 |
| Author: | Michael Hennessy |
| Publisher: | Everyman's Library an imprint of Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
| Genres: |
Poetry anthologies (various poets) Classic and pre-20th century poetry Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |