Publisher's Synopsis
Here in one volume is a collection of the most moving poems ever written. The editor wanted to concentrate on poetry "from the heart," eschewing intellectual poems in favor of those he considered more emotional and heart-felt. It includes the classic English poems and a sprinklng of poems from around the world. It also includes poetic writings not often found in collectons of poems, such as sections from "Songs of Solomon" from the Bible, Buddha's "Dhammapada," Lao Zi's "Dao De Ching", as well as works by Friedrich Nietzsche and Kahlil Gibran. You will find all the major poets such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Byron, Pushkin, Coleridge, Blake, Dickinson, Millay, Cummings and Elliot, along with other known and not-so-known works. In all there are 60 poets and over 200 poems. The volume features photos and brief bios of each poet followed by one or more of their most heart-felt poems. This is a book that readers will enjoy and love, and one that may be useful for courses in literature as well.
