В книгу вошли переводы стихотворений и песен Владимира Высоцкого (50 избранных стихотворений), биографический очерк, воспоминания о нем и отзывы других поэтов и актеров. Издание сопровождается рядом фотоиллюстраций. На английском языке. The book contains the originals and the translations of poems and songs of Vladimir Vysotsky (50 selected poems), a biography, memoires about him, and photographs.
Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.
Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetry
Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of man
Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to reading
This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts.
Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems
Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems
From her earliest collection of poetry (Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, LJ 10/15/71) to her latest (On the Pulse of Morning, delivered at the inauguration of President Clinton on January 20, 1993), Angelou's work never fails to grip the imagination. In this anthology, she comments on love, traveling, and aging.