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The Rattle Bag (1982)

by Seamus Heaney (Editor), Ted Hughes (Editor)

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If you want a book you can dip into, that you can use to explore different poets from around the world. That can be a reference point to start your voyage into the alleys, paths & highways of poetry this is a good book to start with.The poets covered, some are known, some famous, but theres obscure poems, anonymous poems, poets whose lines you see within these pages will set you off on the road to other works/writers.This book book is a key, a door, a path its up to you what you do with it. ( )
  parrishlantern | Jul 13, 2012 |
This is an unusual collection of international poems deliberately unsorted and randomly presented. Hugely enjoyable. I lost this book and recently found it and reread it in a B&B. I went close to stealing it. ( )
  denmoir | May 30, 2012 |
If you want a book you can dip into, that you can use to explore different poets from around the world. That can be a reference point to start your voyage into the alleys, paths & highways of poetry this is a good book to start with.The poets covered, some are known, some famous, but theres obscure poems, anonymous poems, poets whose lines you see within these pages will set you off on the road to other works/writers.This book book is a key, a door, a path its up to you what you do with it.

http://parrishlantern.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/rattle-bag-anthology-edited-by-ted.... ( )
  parrishlantern | Jun 6, 2010 |
We used 'The Rattle Bag' as the text for my upper-level poetry class in college and I absolutely loved pulling it open and discovering new poetry every time. Definitely not the "average" poetry book full of the stock-standard sonnets, e. e. Cummings and Dickinson (not that they're not great -- they're just everywhere). I enjoyed getting a fresher perspective and reading poets I probably would never have discovered on my own. ( )
  writemeg | Nov 8, 2008 |
A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.
  RKCLibrary | Jun 8, 2007 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 057111976X, Paperback)

The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.

Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world."

With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry.

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