A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations,Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere,commanding their love,earning their veneration. For Emily Dickinson they are frigates that'take us Lands away'; for Wordsworth they are'a substantial world,both pure and good'; Alberto Rios calls them'the deli offerings of civilization itself'. This affection extends to the hallowed gathering places of the written word: libraries where one can best hear "a choir of authors murmuring inside their books," as Billy Collins has it; bookshops,especially second-hand ones,'too small for the worlds they hold,where words that sing you to sleep,stories that stalk your dreams,open like windows in a wall'(Gillian Clarke).The poets collected here include Catullus,Horace,T'ao Ch'ien,Dante,Petrarch,Boccaccio,Ronsard,Lope de Vega,Shakespeare,Marvell,Blake,Pope and Keats; more recent luminaries include Brecht,Cavafy,Gabriela Mistral,Dylan Thomas,Iku Takenaka,Pablo Neruda,Wislawa Szymborska,Anne Stevenson,Maya Angelou,Derek Walcott,John Burnside and Ian McMillan.
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781841598239Number of pages: 272Weight: 241 gDimensions: 165 x 113 x 20 mm
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