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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... Head and the North ; All day we hauled the frozen sheets , and got no further forth ; All day as cold as charity , in bitter pain and dread , For very life and nature we tacked from head to head . We gave the South a wider berth , for ...
... Head and the North ; All day we hauled the frozen sheets , and got no further forth ; All day as cold as charity , in bitter pain and dread , For very life and nature we tacked from head to head . We gave the South a wider berth , for ...
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... head , but not his nose , A finger and a thumb : Now when we had seen these holy rags , We went to th ' inn and took our nags , And so away did come . We came to Paris on the Seine , It's wondrous fair , but nothing clean , ' Tis ...
... head , but not his nose , A finger and a thumb : Now when we had seen these holy rags , We went to th ' inn and took our nags , And so away did come . We came to Paris on the Seine , It's wondrous fair , but nothing clean , ' Tis ...
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... heads hold a pistol and cock it ; But still mind the warning , wherever your paths , Take care of your pocket ! —take ... head of a gang of robbers active in central Rhineland And this dear land as true a symbol shows , 180 THOMAS HOOD ...
... heads hold a pistol and cock it ; But still mind the warning , wherever your paths , Take care of your pocket ! —take ... head of a gang of robbers active in central Rhineland And this dear land as true a symbol shows , 180 THOMAS HOOD ...
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