E-böcker / Lyrik
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Good and evil, right and wrong, innocence and sinfulness, redeemed and fallen.'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is a classic book of two halves - encapsulated by the extended ...
Poems
Discover the English writer of romantic poems, Christina Rossetti's extensive collection with this comprehensive anthology. Spanning ‘The Prince’s Progress’, following the story of ...
The Northern Lights and Other Poems
As an aristocrat by birth, Violet Jacob's decision to write poetry in Scots dialect risked ridicule from her peers, who considered it vulgar. Most others would struggle to take her ...
Poems
Dive into one of the most important figures in American poetry, Emily Dickinson’s iconic collection. Characterised by three distinct periods, a sentimental tone lies in her work da ...
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Poetry can inspire, evoke, provoke and transport the reader. But this collection of 39 poems did even more - it broke barriers. This collection was written by Phillis Wheatley, the ...
Shorter Poems
It took the publication of the lengthy work 'The Ring and the Book' to gain Robert Browning recognition in his lifetime. But today, the Victorian poet is more admired for these, hi ...
Leaves of Grass
It is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, 'Leaves ...
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; Merry and Pippin; Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy...great duos often help to make great literature. So when two soon-to-be luminaries of the English Ro ...
Aurora Leigh
Join Aurora on her travels from Florence to London - a coming of age journey full of trials and tribulations. Spanning 9 books, Browning’s poetic blank verse evokes classical and m ...
Sonnets From the Portuguese
Poetry lovers look no further! Elizabeth Barret Browning’s passionate collection of 44 love sonnets is all you'll ever need. Following the Italian model made popular by Petrarch, B ...
Dikter
»En av det engelska språkets mest firade och kontroversiella efterkrigspoeter.« Margaret Atwood»Dikterna känns i kroppen och de stannar kvar i tanken på ett sätt som endast riktigt ...
Hundra dikter
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) föddes i County Derry, på den nordirländska landsbygden. Hans första större diktsamling,Death of a Naturalist, utkom 1966 och följdes av poesi, kritik oc ...
Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems
You won't fail to be captured by one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s greatest books 'Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems'.<br><br>Religious and spiritual, the studies and poems reflec ...
Paradise Lost
'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.'<br>It's the classic temptation - power. And these are the words John Milton puts on the forked tongue of the serpent when it spea ...
The Prophet
‘The Prophet’ is a collection of prose poetry offering spiritual insights into a range of subjects. Through 26 fables, Gibran explores everything from love, marriage, and children ...
The Poems of John Donne
Soldier, secretary, Anglican priest, MP, father of 12, Dean of St Paul's...it's amazing that John Donne had any spare time.<br><br>But this collection of his poems shows why it is ...
The Golden Threshold
She was the 'Nightingale of India', and her voice was first heard in 1905 when 'The Golden Threshold' was published.<br><br>This collection of Sarojini Naidu's early work is alread ...
"Inte alls dåligt" : efterlämnade dikter
”En av de sista gångerna Kristina Lugn och jag sågs över te och scones berättade hon om en pärm med dikter och diktutkast som hon inte sett i på mycket länge. ’Det var inte alls då ...
För vem talar jag framtidens språk
Så närmar sig ljusets krön Också det ska vi passera Det somockså är mörkrets Som vore döden och livet syskon Eller älskande,hand i hand På berget innanför murarna fanns blodnäva, i ...
Åsnans år
Det finns ett ögonblick när månen står som högstoch stjälkarna vrider sig mot himlenom man viskar de dödas namn då svarar de intemen om fölen sover i spiltankan man höra sig själv ...
Blodbok
"Blodbok" är en poetisk inventering av ett statligt rasbiologiskt instituts arkiv, men också av den egna kroppens ensamhet och kollektiva minnen. Dikterna består av textstölder frå ...
Spärreld
Spärreld, ursprungligen utgiven 1936, är Ester Sjöbloms uppmärksammade diktdebut. Här i ny utgåva i N/L:s poesibibliotek. Ester Sjöblom tillhörde, som en av få kvinnor, Klaraboheme ...
Poems in Prose
A masterclass in the manipulation of the English language ‘Poems in Prose’ is a collection of six poems, from the pen of one of the world’s most celebrated writers. Delving into th ...
Songs of Action
Better known as the creator of the eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also the author of a number of poems during his literary career. ‘Songs of Action ...
Ravenna
‘Ravenna’ is one of Wilde’s earliest poems, written while he was a student at Oxford in the 1870s. He submitted it as an entry for the Newdigate Prize, in which the subject for a p ...