... they see – So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar? 11. THOMAS MOORE Oh! Blame Not the Bard (1810) Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers Where Pleasure lies carelessly ...
The volume also includes a general introduction, chronology and individual introductions to each poet. Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet and translator.
Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms
This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.
It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.
Je ne suis qu'un viveur lunaire Qui fait des ronds dans les bassins, Et cela, sans autre dessein Que devenir un légendaire. Retroussant d'un air de défi Mes manches de mandarin pâle, J'arrondis ma bouche et – j'exhale Des conseils doux ...
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For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremony, Laura Barber's anthology is the answer to a prayer, with a wonderfully generous and unusual ...
'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018 The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern.