World Poetry

Starseed is a channeled poetry book about the global starseed awakening happening at this time. This poetry book is for those who are ready to connect to their galactic lineage, and our place among the stars. This channeled poetry book was inspired by all the star brothers and sisters working to elevate the consciousness of the planet. If you’re a starseed going through a massive spiritual awakening, allow Starseed Awaken The World to help you step into your purpose and power, to awaken yourself and others!

The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth...

A love letter to the healing power of collaboration and feeling seen, The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Vol II is a must-read for anyone looking to rid themselves of the guilt of existing and get lost in the razor sharp mind of Jessie Reyez. Born from a popular long-running series on...

What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend, William Wordsworth, revolutionized English poetry. In 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using "the language of men" - pointing the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets.

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul". Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

Translated for the first time into English, The Salmon Who Dared To Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million copy bestselling modern fable about finding freedom and a harmony with nature we have either forgotten or lost in the binding realities of life. The life of the salmon is a...

Леся Українка (Лариса Петрівна Косач) — українська письменниця, перекладач, культурний діяч. Писала у жанрі поезії, лірики, епосу, драми, прозі, публіцистики. Також працювала на ниві фольклористики (220 народних мелодій записано з її голосу). Бояриня — драматична поема, написана впродовж трьох днів у Хельвані (біля Каїра, Єгипет-Міср). Це єдиний твір письменниці, який базується на українській історії. Події в поемі розгортаються в часи Руїни (60-ті роки XVII ст.) на Лівобережній Україні та у Москві.

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, and two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves. But the real hero of this recording is Richard Bebb who, with the help of Professor Derek Brewer, the leading expert on Chaucerian pronunciation, make the original Middle English not only comprehensible to the modern ear, but exciting.

This varied, well-chosen selection brings onto one audiobook the best of Dylan Thomas. Here is the legendary recording of "Under Milk Wood", with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators; but here also are two radio productions he wrote before that great classic, and though interesting in their own right, they show how "Under Milk Wood" grew gradually in his imagination.

Сколько слов, стихов, песен сложено о любви! Чувстве, которое близко людям всех поколений, чувстве, которое будоражит кровь и разум, чувстве, которое рождает потрясающие по своей силе строки и метафоры... Любовная лирика – пожалуй, один из самых красивых жанров, по сути это сама жизнь, переданная автором в образах и строфах. Именно со стихотворений о любви чаще всего начинается творческий путь поэта, становление его рифмы и слога. XIX–XX вв. подарил нам прекрасные образцы любовной лирики: стихотворения М. Лермонтова и Ф. Тютчева, А. Блока и К. Бальмонта, М. Цветаевой и А. Ахматовой и многих других.

The #1 Amazon UK bestseller in War Poetry A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the moment war broke out across...

Learn how the life of this Lebanese immigrant has positioned him to artistically capture the hearts, minds, and souls of readers for generations, making him one of the world’s best-selling poets. In the collected works of poetry, poet, author, artist, and philosopher, Kahlil Gibran, shares his spiritual and moral views of life, purpose, love, and pain.

In the war a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of war as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from soldiers, from auxiliaries, from friend and from foe.

Are you a poetry lover? Are you a true romantic at heart? Then, this Female Romantic Poetry Anthology with Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Dorothy Wordsworth (Romanticism and Women Poets Collection) is for you! The poems are read in a slow cadence and would be suitable for relaxation, bedtime, sleep, or ASMR. Let your love of poetry comes to life with these beautiful poems!

Helen Hayes, Raymond Massey and Thomas Mitchell read a selection of the world's finest poetry from the greats including Keats, Browning, Kipling and Gray.

Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps adventurously between memoir and criticism, understanding his life through poetry, and vice versa. This electric, compelling hybrid memoir discovers a new way of writing about the self and also literature.

1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity to claim the independence they’ve strived for over generations on their very own plot of land.