I really wish this collection contained more contemporary poets - most of the poetry in this collection is from the 1800s. One thing this collection did do was confirm my love of Anna Akhmatova, as well as Marina Tsvetayeva, and a grudging respect for Alexander Blok. I can pick all three of them out...
I was in the mood for some poetry and when I saw this at my library I knew I had to check it out. I loved the selection of poems not all of them were the same level so even if you don't read poetry often I think you would enjoy it. Some poems were simple and easy to understand while others require...
***Read for my Classics Challenge***To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment.5 Stars.The musical happens to be one that has remained with me for most of my life upon witnessing it for the ...
I like it that the editor took the broadest sense of ghost story and lump down not only things-that-go-bump-in-the-night (there are several) but also eery or sometimes spiritual circumstances. Combined with a some top notch writers this is a really good compilation that can satisfy not only ghost st...
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The strict form of haiku, (which I've always found fun) is untranslatable, so we are left with free verse. It's amazing how wonderful the famous Japanese haiku in this book are; each one awakens some sensory echo or memory, forges some connection to the eternal. Even when the objects they contemplat...
We have all been wronged at some point.The degrees, of course, are what change. A slight infraction, a bitter con, or, as some of us have experienced, something that took our lives clearly off course. A betrayal that rocks us to our core, forever changing our future, ourselves.Some people have never...
"We can only suppose that its new life as a musical - and what an appropriate fate for that most operatic novelist - will help to bring Les Misérables to the attention of a new generation of readers, reminding them perhaps that the abuses Hugo catalogues are still alive elsewhere, awaiting their own...
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Though I read it many times before, I feel now, after I read it once again, like I didn't read it at all!Each time I read it I discover something new. It's just fascinating. It's a story about everything - freedom, love, friendship and sacrifice. It talks about human suffering. It's real and true. ...
The earliest selections were quite strong. But as the collection moves into the 20th century, it seems to depend more on famous names, Garcia Marquez, Nabokov, and less on the strength of the ghost stories as ghost stories. Apparently, I'm some kind of purist.Kudos for including Wodehouse's HONEYSUC...
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