Poems of Sleep and Dreams

Poems of Sleep and Dreams
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781400041978
ISBN-13 : 140004197X
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Book Synopsis Poems of Sleep and Dreams by : Peter Washington

Download or read book Poems of Sleep and Dreams written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets–Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more–encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the tragic. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Auden’s “Lullaby” to Rossetti’s “Nuptial Sleep,” from Salvatore Quasimodo’s “Insomnia” to Thom Gunn’s “Annihilation of Nothing,”Poems of Sleep and Dreamsevokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep and dream.


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