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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... dark breasts And blesses still the many - nourishing earth With dark - armed industry . See from the steep The scattered olives hurry in grey throngs Down towards the valley , where the little stream Parts a green hollow ' twixt the ...
... dark breasts And blesses still the many - nourishing earth With dark - armed industry . See from the steep The scattered olives hurry in grey throngs Down towards the valley , where the little stream Parts a green hollow ' twixt the ...
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... dark range Bounds the wide prospect , and exulting flash When on yon pointed peak , Aegaleos , It views , or seems to view , the Persian king Thrice leaping from his throne , as he beholds His shattered navy dark'ning the broad wave Of ...
... dark range Bounds the wide prospect , and exulting flash When on yon pointed peak , Aegaleos , It views , or seems to view , the Persian king Thrice leaping from his throne , as he beholds His shattered navy dark'ning the broad wave Of ...
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... dark rays , Dark , keen , fine eyes in the brilliant frost of her face . Beautiful dead eyes . Hermoso es ! They go out towards the open ; We go on into the gloom of Lobo . And above the trees I found her lair , A hole in the blood ...
... dark rays , Dark , keen , fine eyes in the brilliant frost of her face . Beautiful dead eyes . Hermoso es ! They go out towards the open ; We go on into the gloom of Lobo . And above the trees I found her lair , A hole in the blood ...
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EN ROUTE | 1 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834 | 9 |
A S J TESSIMOND 19021962 | 14 |
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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