Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
 
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert (1925-2012) in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982) and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates the basic joys of everyday experience.
 
Now, for the first time, we have all of Jack Gilbert’s work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.

Keuze uit de poëzie van de Duitse literator (1797-1856).

Analytische annotatie: Gedichten.

Ter gelegenheid van de boekenweek 2009 met als thema 'Tjielp, tjielp – de literaire zoo', heeft poëziekenner Henk van Zuiden de mooiste gedichten gebundeld die met dieren te maken hebben. Allerlei dieren passeren de revue, van zwaluwen, duiven, leeuweriken en kolibri's tot walvissen, kamelen, giraffen en tijgers. Een prachtige bundel met gedichten van onder andere Hans Dorrestijn, Ida Gerhardt, Frans Pointl, Joke van Leeuwen en vele anderen.

Inleidende besprekingen van gedichten bedoeld voor leerlingen van het middelbaar onderwijs.

Dichters tussen 1800 en 1840 vonden hun inspiratie dicht bij huis. Verzen over het huisgezin. 

»Diese Sammlung versteht sich als Reizangebot. Einige von der Zunft anerkannte Gedichte sind hier nochmals aufgegossen - sie sind von keiner Zunft auszulaugen -, der Nachdruck gehört allerdings den interessanten Beispielen. Sie hat keine andere Absicht, als auf ein facettenreiches, widersprüchliches, gefährliches, aber immer kompromißloses Werk zu verweisen.«

Sandwich-reeks nr. 5

This collection presents a new translation of the passionate and sometimes angry poems by the 19th-century French Romantic poet who speaks to the young at heart of any generation.