{"product_id":"9781841598239","title":"Books and Libraries : Poems","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Scrimgeour, Andrew, Various, Scrimgeour, Andrew \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePoetry anthologies (various poets)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 October 2021 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e171 x 216 x 25 | 242g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their veneration. For Emily Dickinson they are frigates that 'take us Lands away'; for Wordsworth they are 'a substantial world, both pure and good'; Alberto Rios calls them 'the deli offerings of civilization itself'. This affection extends to the hallowed gathering places of the written word: libraries where one can best hear 'a choir of authors murmuring inside their books,' as Billy Collins has it; bookshops, especially second-hand ones, 'too small for the worlds they hold, where words that sing you to sleep, stories that stalk your dreams, open like windows in a wall' (Gillian Clarke).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The poets collected here include Catullus, Horace, T'ao Ch'ien, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ronsard, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Marvell, Blake, Pope and Keats; more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491475800450,"sku":"9781841598239","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781841598239.jpg?v=1753748218","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.pro\/products\/9781841598239","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}