The Blue Poetry BookGraphic Arts Books, 2021. jún. 8. - 356 oldal Poetry is the language of the human nature, a beautiful tool to express every thought and feeling. Searching through different cultures, languages, and historical moments, Andrew Lang carefully crafted this diverse collection of poetry, translating and editing the lyrics of highly esteemed poets. Accepting only the finest of the craft, The Blue Poetry Book features some of humankind’s most magnificent poems, spanning across centuries and cultures. This diverse collection features works with rhythm, stanzas, and figurative language that remain embedded in the wit and heart of readers, immortalized as a whisper in the mind, present long after the collection’s conclusion. Comprised of over one-hundred poems, The Blue Poetry Book is a collection of poems assembled by Andrew Lang. Featuring the work of celebrated poets such as William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and more, this immense medley of poems unites legendary writers from different generations, representing their work under one language. Each poet is represented not only in their work, but in a short biography, written by the scholar Robert McWilliam, detailing their life and career. With masterful poems and intimate details of the authors’ lives, The Blue Poetry Book is both an entertaining collection and an invaluable educational resource, suitable for both children and adults. This edition of The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and Robert McWilliam now features a stunning new cover design and is printed in a font that is both modern and readable. With these accommodations, this edition of The Blue Poetry Book creates an accessible and pleasant reading experience for modern audiences while restoring the original precision and excellence of Andrew Lang’s work. |
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... YOUNG BIRD BEAU'S REPLY LUCY GRAY; OR, SOLITUDE HUNTING SONG LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER NORA'S VOW BALLAD OF AGINCOURT YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND THE GIRL DESCRIBES HER FAWN THE SOLDIER'S DREAM JOHN GILPIN HOHENLINDEN THE ...
Andrew Lang. YOUNG LOCHINVAR THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS THE DOG AND THE WATER-LILY TO FLUSH, MY DOG ALICE BRAND O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST I LOVE MY JEAN THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME THE BANKS O'DOON AS SLOW OUR SHIP ...
... young people, poems which are good in themselves, and especially fitted to live, as Theocritus says, “on the lips of the young.” The Editor has been guided to a great extent, in making his choice, by recollections of what particularly ...
... Young Lochinvar” goes “asas dauntingly as wantonly” to his bridal, the heir of Macpherson's Rant to his death, in a wonderful swing and gallop of verse; while still, out of dim years of childhood far away, one hears how all the bells ...
... young critics that they talk of Scott's redeeming his bad verse by his good novels. The taste of childhood and of maturity is simpler and more pure. In the development of a love of poetry it is probable that simple, natural, and ...