Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Peter Washington (Editor)
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Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets?Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more?encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the show more tragic. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. A collection of poems about sleep by classical masters include 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. show lessTags
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Peter Washington has edited several Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, Friendship Poems, Love Letters, and The Roman Poets. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
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- 808.81 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections of poetry
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- PN6110 .S55 .P64 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature German Poetry
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