Binding: Trade Paperback

From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject. Jon Stallworthy has here selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in the English language. Representing the work of more than 190 poets, from Sappho to Byron and Browning, from Rossetti to Wordsworth and E.E. Cummings, he offers a startling collection of love poetry down through the ages. Arranged thematically, beginning with the first drawings of young love and ending with the "long look back" ...
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A Cup of Comfort for Nurses: Stories of Caring and Compassion

By: Sell, Colleen

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Cup of Comfort : March 2006

Seller ID: 82330

ISBN-13: 9781593375423

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs

By: Mieder, Wolfgang

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 1996

Seller ID: 150056

ISBN-13: 9780195111330

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Dictionary of American Proverbs is a treasury of more than 15,000 sayings, adages, and maxims commonly used in popular speech in the United States and Canada. As the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written sources, it includes thousands of uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded as well as many thousands of traditional sayings that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. This unparalleled collection will delight the general r...
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A Family Madness

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys

Seller ID: 96398

ISBN-13: 9780886191047

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Guide to Fun Railroad of the West (Third Annual Edition)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Howard Puckett Promotions, c. 1978. : January 1978

Seller ID: 115953

ISBN: B001M90ET0

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A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (Historical Guides to American Authors)

By: Reynolds, David S.

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2000

Seller ID: 151160

ISBN-13: 9780195120820

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy. The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer," distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured," fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are ...
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