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Love Poems

A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries

By Sheila Kohler and Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Erotic Poems

By Peter Washington (editor)

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9780679433224 | Everymans Library, April 1, 1994, cover price $13.50

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America

Provides a history of spiritualism in America and discusses the development of theosophy

By Peter Washington

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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

Friendship: Poems

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 (view table of contents)

By Everyman's Library and Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Prayers

Gathers religious poems and traditional poems grouped by each of the seven canonical hours

By Peter Washington

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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

Love Letters

Two hundred love letters by fictional and historic characters include Eloise's exchange of romantic vows with Abelard, Mozart's teasing exchange with his wife, Franz Kafka's pining for Felice, and Anais Nin's erotic writings.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Emily Bronte: Poems

Emily Bronte's poems throw fascinating light on both her life and her work. Many were written for inclusion in the prose epic about the mythical land of Gondal that she co-authored with her sister Anne and, although the epic is lost, the poems survive.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Sanditon and Other Stories

Product Description: Readers of Jane Austenâs six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.Sanditon might have been Austenâs greatest novel had she lived to finish it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter Washington (editor)

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9780679447191 | Everymans Library, May 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Readers of Jane Austenâs six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.

Poems

This volume contains extensive selections from 'Paradise Lost', chosen to illustrate the author's genius for high drama, vivid description and savage irony. In addition, there are substantial extracts from 'Comus' and 'Samson Agonistes', as well as many of his shorter poems and sonnets.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Love Songs and Sonnets

Collects works by such writers as Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, John Updike, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Graves, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Odes, Elegies and Epigrams

By Peter Washington (editor)

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9781857157345 | Everyman''s Library Ltd, May 1, 1997, cover price $55.01

Bach

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By Peter Washington

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9780375400025 | Har/com edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997), cover price $47.50

The Roman Poets

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.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Eliot: Poems and Prose

Another entry in the popular, pocketable format offers a selection of the early poems of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets and critics, including The Waste Land and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'

By T. S. Eliot and Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Poems of Mourning

An international anthology of some of the world's most beautiful poetic expressions of grief, bereavement, and consolation includes the works of Catullus, Milton, Auden, Lowell, Tennyson, Rossetti, Milosz, and other notable poets. 10,000 first printing.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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

Persian Poets

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. (view table of contents)

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Comic Poems

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)

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink

A collection of poetry celebrates food, beverages, and the fine art of dining in works by Sylvia Plath, D. H. LAwrence, Baudelaire, Robert Burns, Christina Rossetti, Horace, Virgil, Li Po, Rumi, Emily Dickinson, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, and other great poets. 10,000 first printing.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Haiku

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.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Poems of Sleep and Dreams

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.'15,000 first printing.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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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.

Poems Of Sleep And Dreams: R.

By Peter Washington (editor)

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9781841597607 | Everyman''s Library Ltd, June 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

Emerson: Poems

A collection of poetry by the renowned nineteenth-century American Transcendalist philosopher and essayist celebrates the preeminence of the individual and personal experience in such famed works as 'Concord Hymn' and 'The Rhodora.'

By Ralph Waldo Emerson and Peter Washington

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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.

Herbert: Poems

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.

By George Herbert and Peter Washington

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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.

Selected Poems by Whitman

By Peter Washington and Walt Whitman

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9780786286041 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 2, 2006), cover price $20.95

Rumi

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. 10,000 first printing.

By Jalal Al-Din Rumi and Peter Washington (editor)

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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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