Bøker i Mint Editions--Poetry and Vers-serien

A vivid exploration of morality and the opposing views that influence each person¿s life. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake , is one of the author¿s most notable works. It offers colorful commentary on religion and politics, as well as basic spiritual concepts like good and evil.

A sailor¿s extraordinary tale of life, death and redemption after a long journey at sea. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an unsuspecting traveler is captivated by an old man¿s remarkable story of survival. Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a thought-provoking critque of nature and morality that¿s infused with supernatural themes.

Robert Frost is a poet of memories and ghosts, silences and sorrows. His music is made by the rhythms of nature: the flutter of bats at dusk, the cry of the lone whippoorwill; his images lie in the earth for the moss and grapevines to cover. A Boy¿s Will is Frost¿s first collection of poems.

Satan accompanies Jesus in his forty-day journey through the desert, determined to corrupt the son of God with worldly possessions, power, and vanity. Paradise Regained by John Milton is an epic poem based off of a biblical story. Alluding to Milton¿s most celebrated work, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained depicts similar theological themes, but follows a different target for Satan¿s ruin.

Transposing English aristocratic society onto the world of the gods, Alexander Pope¿s The Rape of the Lock is the story of a grave offence against the natural order of the universe: the theft of a lock of hair.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. ¿How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.¿ Thus begins Elizabeth Barrett Browning¿s sonnet ¿XLIII,¿ the penultimate poem in her collection Sonnets from the Portuguese. Written for her husband Robert Browning, these sonnets are not only some of the most formally precise poems in the English language, but among the most astonishingly beautiful love poems ever written.

Azul... (1888) is a book of stories and poems by Rubén Darío. Written while the poet was living in Chile, Azul... has been recognized as a pioneering work of Hispanic Modernism that launched the career of a leading Latin American poet. Both experimental and traditional, Azul... blends Darío's concern over the sustainability of modern life with his abiding interest in the myths and magic of ancient cultures. Infused with classical symbolism, inspired by the myth and philosophy of Ancient Greece, Rubén Darío's Azul... bridges the gap between ancient and modern. Rather than focus on the differences between the two, he envisions the past as a living entity, allowing history and fantasy to coincide with the social realities of his time. In these poems and stories, fairies from the plays of Shakespeare appear alongside the working men and women of Latin America. Dreams coincide with a reality mired in poverty, labor, and passionless social climbing. Poets and port workers sing and die in a city of ghostly beauty. Azul... is less a book than it is an experience, and nearly a century and a half after its publication it remains one worth the taking. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rubén Darío's Azul... is a classic of Nicaraguan literature reimagined for modern readers.

Holiness, Temperance, Chasity, Justice, Friendship and Courtesy. These are the virtues that seven valiant knights, each on a quest through Faerieland, hope to achieve. Acting as both moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene is an exploration of love, integrity and chivalry written by one of the great craftsmen of Modern English verse, Edmund Spenser.

Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine (1923) is an epic poem and accompanying scholarship by José Hernández and Henry A. Holmes. Originally published in two parts, the poem has been praised as a defining work of Argentine literature for its depiction of national identity in relation to the gaucho culture, which was used to consolidate the historical and political image of the country against European influence. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Hernández was a writer who grew up in a ranching family, who knew firsthand the prowess of a people who helped Argentina free itself from Spanish control.