Poetry > 5 GBP to 9 GBP Poetry

Advantages: Definitly different
Disadvantages: Just the slightest bit wordy

I picked up a copy of Catullus, quite by accident really. Looked interesting in an educated sort of way. And well it certainly opened my eyes, to *just* what the Roman has been doing. The vast majority of Catullus's work (at least what I've read of it) is marvellously backbiting gossip, reprimanding friends for bad habits, spreading rumours about their sexuality, longing for his lover. Indeed it's like a modern soap opera, except it's poetry, and ...
...light and the tone above all is one of wryness, but also a vitality. You imagine Catullus as being an energetic person, someone with time for men and woman (he didn't discriminate, if it meant he could have the best of both worlds!) I read some in their original Latin, but as a previous reviewer said, that kinda took the fun away- having to translate them literally, meant that much of the beauty was lost on my numbskull ears, so eventually I just ... Read review

Advantages: Remarkable poems
Disadvantages: None

...Sylvia Plath Genre: Poetry Title: Crossing the Water Pages: vi + 56 Copyright © 1971 by Ted Hughes ISBN: 0-06-013374-0 pbk. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-138758 I bought this book from Amazon US in June 2006. The price was US$ 8.20. For years, Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson have been my preferred American female poets. ************************** Sylvia Plath at Glance ************************** According to Merriam Webster's ...
...posthumously include Ariel (1965) and Crossing the Water (1971), both poetry collection, and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977), a book of short stories and other prose. The Collected Poems, which includes many previously unpublished poems, appeared in 1981 and was awarded a Pulitzer Price. More further details about Sylvia Plath also available at: (1) www.sylviaplath.de (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SylviaPlath ************************ ... Read review

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: None

I got given this book for xmas and have read everything from cover to cover several times.Its one of those books that he probably came up with to keep himself busy but turned into something alot more meaningful and popular than he expected.Most of the poems are long and have a sort of moral behind them.There are still short poems within the book and i think that younger children could still get into the book or at leats be read the book.If you have ... Read review

Advantages: very good read
Disadvantages: controversion

John Donne is one of the most fantastically interesting metaphysical poets. Just to give you a brief description of what metaphysical poetry is about: metaphysical poets were a group of poets in the 17th century whose name was given to them after they had been writing by Samuel Johnson. It's hard to describe exactly what a metaphysical poem is just because, well there isn't really a strict pattern they follow as most of them were not famous until ...
...Anyway, the key thing that more or less all of the metaphysical poems contain is an extended metaphor or conceit throughout the poem. For example in John Donne's 'The Flea' the conceit is that he imagines himself and his lover throughout the poem making love inside of the flea, their "marriage temple". Sounds strange, i know but it really is fantastically hilarious if you read the rest of his poems and see that he is essentially trying to chat up ... Read review

Advantages: Accessibilty
Disadvantages: Who's heard of him?

In Collected Poems Augustine Martin has compiled an extensive piece of Irish Literary history. Not only does this capture the young romantic poet, before his more political voice matures, in the collection from Crossways(1889) and The Rose(1893) but also his finest piece of works in The Wild Swans at Coole(1919)and Michael Robarts and the Dancer(1921). The latter two collections are worth the £8.99 alone in terms of quality and social history. I ...
...but unfortunately they capture the period in which he borrowed heavily from the mysticism and verbal intrigue of William Blake's work, as well as from Doone. His earlier pieces have highlights, such as the Isle of Innisfree but in no way classify Yeats as a writer of his time. Each of his works are in comparison with later writers such as Betjeman, in as much that they both are immensely skilled in using the most simplest forms of poetics, rhyme ... Read review