Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
42.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Inspirational S.
Max Ehrmann was not afraid to express his thoughts about the evils and scandals he saw around him, and in his quest for contentment he turned to nature and the eternal passage of the seasons. This edition contains, in addition to the Desiderata, more of Max Ehrmann's writings. First published 1948.
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: RSC Shakespeare
Subjects: Poetry, EnglishNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You ...Show more
Daodejing by Lao Tzu (Ryder trans.)
17.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.' The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenet ...Show more
Beyond The Palisade by James K. Baxter
32.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Beyond the Palisade, James K. Baxter's first book of poetry, created a sensation when it was originally published in I 944. Baxter, who was just 18 at the time, was hailed as a prodigy. Despite the obvious influences of British Romantic and Modernist poets, he was acclaimed for the confidence with which ...Show more
New Selected Poems: James K Baxter by James K. Baxter (ed Paul Millar)
49.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
James K Baxter is more than a New Zealand poet: the poems in this selection place him among the major poets of the twentieth century. Yet New Zealand lies at the heart of his work, the best of which constitutes an unparalleled, intensely personal engagement with the country, its people, and society. In ...Show more
James K Baxter - Autumn Testament by James K Baxter; Paul Millar (ed.)
32.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
At the time of his death in 1972 James K. Baxter was in the process of correcting the proofs of Autumn Testament. The book thus acquired a symbolic significance beyond the poet's intention. What the title might reasonably have implied - the articulation of a covenant worked out by a man at the height of ...Show more
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien and Mark Williams (eds)
59.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1997 Montana Book Awards, poetry section. This comprehensive Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English spans more than a century, revealing the richness, vitality and range of styles and voices to be found in the body of New Zealand verse. Established figures such as Ursula Bethell, Allen ...Show more
Iqbal by Attiya Rahamin
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This is the author's impression of Mohammad Iqbal's (foremost poet of Pakistan and an internationally recognized figure) scholastic career in Europe and includes a selection of Mohammad Iqbal's letters and poems that were in the personal possession of Attiya Rahamin.
Selected Poetry by William Blake
15.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This selection represents the full range of Blake's accomplishment as a poet, ranging from early Poetical Sketches to late lyrics and including such major works as
Failure by Philip Schultz
53.99 NZD
60.00 (10% off)
Category: Poetry
A driven immigrant father, an old poet, Isaac Babel in the author's dreams--Philip Schultz gives voice to failures in poems that are direct and wry. He evokes other lives, too--family, beaches, dogs, the pleasures of marriage, New York City in the 1970s, "when nobody got up before noon, wore a suit/or j ...Show more