The Oxford Book of Travel VerseKevin Crossley-Holland Oxford University Press, 1986 - 423 páginas Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the British have for many centuries ventured forth to see the world. Among them have been great poets like Marvell, Shelley, Coleridge, and Rossetti, and some whose voices are less well-known, brought together for the first time in an anthology that charts the British abroad as reflected in their verse. The romantic passion of Wordsworth and Byron, fired by the awesome landscape of the Alps or the glories of Italy, is tempered by the reaction of travelers faced with discomfort, delay and dissapointment: James Boswell in Mannheim, Miss Emily Brittle on her way to India, and David Constantine watching for dolphins. Poet-adventurers and poet-diplomats, writing about voyages with Captain Cook and expeditions to Mt. Everest, the British in India and the Russian character and landscape, rub shoulders with sacred voyagers to the Holy Land and the contemporary day-visitor to France. Reflecting on their reactions to the new America are William McGonagall and Rudyard Kipling. While in the present century Lawrence Durrell, Alan Ross and D. J. Enright take us to Australia, the Far East and South America. At the end, the reader will have traveled to almost every country in the world and enjoyed selections from some five centuries of verse. |
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Página 83
... beneath his sway This pleasant place of Spain . It surely is a fearful doom , That one so beautiful should have No present quiet in her tomb , No hope beyond the grave . It must be that some amulet Doth make all human pity vain , Or ...
... beneath his sway This pleasant place of Spain . It surely is a fearful doom , That one so beautiful should have No present quiet in her tomb , No hope beyond the grave . It must be that some amulet Doth make all human pity vain , Or ...
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... beneath her heart , Ananda's Lord , the Bodhisat , The Buddha of Kamakura . For though he neither burns nor sees , Nor hears ye thank your Deities , Ye have not sinned with such as these , His children at Kamakura , Yet spare us still ...
... beneath her heart , Ananda's Lord , the Bodhisat , The Buddha of Kamakura . For though he neither burns nor sees , Nor hears ye thank your Deities , Ye have not sinned with such as these , His children at Kamakura , Yet spare us still ...
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... beneath the trembling ground Rumbles a drear persistent sound Like ponderous engines infinite , working At some tremendous task below ! - Such are the signs and symptoms - lurking Or launching forth in dread display- Of hidden fires ...
... beneath the trembling ground Rumbles a drear persistent sound Like ponderous engines infinite , working At some tremendous task below ! - Such are the signs and symptoms - lurking Or launching forth in dread display- Of hidden fires ...
Contenido
EN ROUTE | 1 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834 | 9 |
A S J TESSIMOND 19021962 | 14 |
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Otras 63 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
arms bear beauty beneath blue breast breath brown church clouds comes dance dark dead dear deep earth English eyes face fair fall fear fire France give grace green grey hand head hear heart heaven hills hope hour Italy keep king land leave light live look lost mind mountains move nature never night o'er once passed plain play rest rise rock round scene seems seen shade shore side sight silent sleep smile song soul sound Spain stand stone strange stream talk thee things thou thought town trees turned voice walk walls warm watch wave wild wind wine woods