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Product Description: This collection of wonderful anthologies from the Everymanâs Library Pocket Poets series celebrates love and friendship in all of their delightful aspects, from the pleasures of first meetings to the joys of lifelong devotion. With colorful cloth sewn bindings, elegant gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these are books that beg to be cherished...read more
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9780307700858 | Box edition (Everymans Library, December 21, 2010), cover price $54.00 | About this edition: This collection of wonderful anthologies from the Everymanâs Library Pocket Poets series celebrates love and friendship in all of their delightful aspects, from the pleasures of first meetings to the joys of lifelong devotion.
Product Description: Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...read more
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9780307269744 | Everymans Library, May 12, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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9780307269249 | Everymans Library, September 2, 2008, cover price $15.00
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9780307267115 | Poc edition (Everymans Library, October 16, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A definitive compilation of verse from the author of The Jungle Book presents a selection that includes the author's ballads, narrative poems, epigrams, odes, and other poetry, from such famed works as 'Mandalay' and 'If' to less-familiar poems.
A richly detailed portrait of the master composer's life as documented in letters by and about Mozart offers an illuminating study that ranges from his childhood as a musical prodigy, through the financial hardships of his later years, capturing the musical politics of eighteenth-century Europe. 10,000 first printing.
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9780307266255 | Everymans Library, January 2, 2007, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A richly detailed portrait of the master composer's life as documented in letters by and about Mozart offers an illuminating study that ranges from his childhood as a musical prodigy, through the financial hardships of his later years, capturing the musical politics of eighteenth-century Europe.
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9780080333786, titled "Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential" | Pergamon Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $56.00 | also contains Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential, Rumi, Rumi, Rumi
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9780080333786, titled "Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential" | Pergamon Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $56.00 | also contains Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential, Rumi, Rumi, Rumi
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9780080333786, titled "Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential" | Pergamon Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $56.00 | also contains Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential, Rumi, Rumi, Rumi
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9780307263520 | Everymans Library, June 6, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry by the medieval Persian sage reflects the author's Sufi beliefs, a mystic tradition within Islam, in works that speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved and describe divine love in sensuous human terms.
9780080333786, titled "Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential" | Pergamon Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $56.00 | also contains Is World Order Evolving?: An Adventure into Human Potential, Rumi, Rumi, Rumi
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9780786286041 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 2, 2006), cover price $20.95
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9781400043293 | Everymans Library, November 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry by the renowned seventeenth-century English metaphysical poet captures his rich emotional voice, luminous precision of language, and technical brilliance in such works as 'The Collar,' 'The Church-porch,' 'The Altar,' and 'Easter Wings,' among others.
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9781400043163 | Everymans Library, September 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry by the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist celebrates the preeminence of the individual and personal experience in such famed works as 'Concord Hymn' and 'The Rhodora.
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9781841597607 | Everyman''s Library Ltd, June 1, 2004, cover price $55.01
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9781400041978 | Everymans Library, April 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems about sleep by classical masters includes Sappho's 'Tonight I've Watched,' Rossetti's 'Nuptial Sleep,' Salvatore Quasimodo's 'Insomnia,' and Thom Gunn's 'Annihilation of Nothing.
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9781400041282 | Everymans Library, November 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of both classic and modern haiku presents examples of the tightly structured, deceptively simple verse form from such Japanese masters as Basho, Issa, Buson, and Shiki, along with examples from modern Japanese, European, and American authors.
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9781400040230 | Everymans Library, April 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry celebrates food, beverages, and the fine art of dining in works by Sylvia Plath, D.
Product Description: This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780375413544 | Everymans Library, November 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W.
Celebrating the accomplishments of the medieval Persian poets, this anthology of poetry from the era and home territory of Rumi includes the work of Hafiz, Attar, Jumi, Saadi, and other lesser-known one-name Persian literary heavyweights.
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9780375411267 | Everymans Library, November 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Celebrating the accomplishments of the medieval Persian poets, this anthology of poetry from the era and home territory of Rumi includes the work of Hafiz, Attar, Jumi, Saadi, and other lesser-known one-name Persian literary heavyweights.
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9780375404566 | Everymans Library, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems about death, loss, and mourning written by authors such as Tennyson, Whitman, Hardy, Keats, and Rilke
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9780375401855 | Everymans Library, May 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers selected poems and essays by the noted twentieth-century poet including selections from 'The Waste Land' and essays on metaphysical poets, Hamlet, criticism, and Ulysses
Featuring decorative eighteenth-century engravings, a treasury of humor, love, wit, satire, and lyricism drawn from the immortal work of the Roman poets, from Catullus to Virgil, includes translations by great English poets.
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9780375400711 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Contains English translations of the major classical Roman poets including Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, and Juvenal
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9780375400025 | Har/com edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997), cover price $47.50
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9781857157345 | Everyman''s Library Ltd, May 1, 1997, cover price $55.01
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9781857157314 | Gardners Books, February 27, 1997, cover price $17.95
9780679454656 | Everymans Library, February 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Collects works by such writers as Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, John Updike, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Graves, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell
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9781857157291 | Gardners Books, October 10, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This volume contains extensive selections from 'Paradise Lost', chosen to illustrate the author's genius for high drama, vivid description and savage irony.
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