Walt Whitman 
Memories of President Lincoln [PDF ebook] 
And Other Lyrics of the War

What were you to me? More than you’ll ever know!In life you were the man for all seasons, From whom I sought the guiding light of reason, The dearest friend that never needed my amends, The older bro …

Poems with a spiritual dimension from Iona Community member Joy Mead. They come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment … a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling students and research …

Published in 1988: This book is a compilation of 16th century poetry and manuscripts. …

First published in 2003. GABRIELE D”ANNUNZIO was born in 1863 in Pescara, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the son of a wealthy landowner. His first volume of poetry was published in 1879, when he wa …

First published in 1991. It was the lyric poetry of Petrarch that popularized the sonnet in European literature, that set the standard for love poetry for centuries to follow. Compared to the large v …

This book, first published in 1935, examines the world of Chinese painting: the background, styles, audience and reception, intentions and achievements. Written with a Western readership in mind, it …

This book, first published in 1947, is an anthology of Chinese poetry from a period when it was entering an entirely new world, where all or nearly all the ancient poetic traditions were being cast a …

Always visions of other lands haunt my ravaged mind and the ghosts of old lovers swirl in the fog of my brain. Habits and routine are my captors, the jailers that speak to me of bounds, fences and wa …