Poems of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

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A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of poems from around the globe and through the ages that pay tribute to the worlds great waters. Throughout history poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea exploring the full range of mankinds nautical fears dreams and longings. The colorful legends of the seapirates and mermaids phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantishave inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennysons seductive sea-fairies next to Poes beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridges darkly brooding The Rime of the Ancient Mariner alongside the grandeur of Shakespeares Full Fathom Five. And here is Masefields I must go down to the seas again alongside Cavafys Ithaka and Stevenss The Idea of Order at Key West. In the wide variety of lyrics collected heresonnets and sea chanteys ballads and hymns and prayerswe feel the encompassing power of our planets restless waters as metaphor mystery and muse. Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid-free cream-colored paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers European-style half-round spines and a full-color illustrated jacket.