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9780375400025 | Har/com edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997), cover price $47.50
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.
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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.
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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
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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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9781857157284 | Gardners Books, April 25, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Emily Bronte's poems throw fascinating light on both her life and her work.
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9780679433224 | Everymans Library, April 1, 1994, cover price $13.50
Gathers poems about various aspects of friendship by Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Robert Frost, Boris Pasternak, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Alexander Pushkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins
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9780679443704 | Everymans Library, May 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathers poems about various aspects of friendship by Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Robert Frost, Boris Pasternak, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Alexander Pushkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins
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9780307269249 | Everymans Library, September 2, 2008, cover price $15.00
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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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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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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.
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.
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9780679446897 | Everymans Library, February 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Two hundred love letters by fictional characters and historic figures, includes Eloise's exchange of romantic vows with Abelard, Mozart's teasing exchange with his wife, Franz Kafka's pining for Felice, and a sampling of Anais Nin's erotic writings
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9780679429067 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries
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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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9780805241259 | Schocken Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Provides a history of spiritualism in America and discusses the development of theosophy
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9780805210248 | Schocken Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Provides a history of spiritualism in America and discusses the development of theosophy
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9781857157345 | Everyman''s Library Ltd, May 1, 1997, cover price $55.01
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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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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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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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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9781841597607 | Everyman''s Library Ltd, June 1, 2004, cover price $55.01
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9780679444664 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathers religious poems and traditional poems grouped by each of the seven canonical hours
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