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April is National Poetry Month!
If you think of literature as a tapestry, one prominent thread running throughout is that of poetry. Lovers, philosophers, teachers and literary scholars from all walks of life have been touched by poetry in some form or another.
The world has known and been blessed by poets throughout the ages, including William Shakespeare, The Biblical King David, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and John Milton, just to name a few. Is your favorite poet on this list?
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." ~John Keats
The gift of poetry is meant to touch your heart, where the seat of your emotions lie. The words dance off the page, allowing you to take up a paintbrush and illustrate your imagination with heartfelt stories. Poetry engages with you and encourages readers to participate in the emotions of the author.
We at Dailey Booksellers celebrate National Poetry Month by highlighting a few books we have on our shelves.
Love Poems - Edited By C.N. Edwards
Love has inspired poets for many years, its potency refusing to relent. This new collection reflects this intensity in its six imaginative sections: Nascent Love, Celebration and Devotion, Fulfilled Love, Departed Love, Beware Love and Lost Love & Remembrance.
Art & Love: An Illustrated Anthology of Love Poetry - Selected By Kate Farrell
Scores of evocative love poems, drawn from the entire range of world literature, are matched with wonderfully vibrant works of art--paintings, sculpture, prints, collages, and stained glass to create an elegant anthology of love poems and masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 140 color illustrations.
The Top 500 Poems: A Columbia Anthology - Edited By William Harmon
The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces, John Donne's complex originality, and Alexander Pope's mordant satires. The anthology also features perennial favorites such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats; Emily Dickinson's prisms of profundity; the ironies of Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot; and the passion of Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. These 500 poems are verses that readers either know already or will want to know, encapsulating the visceral power of truly great literature. William Harmon provides illuminating commentary to each work and a rich introduction that ties the entire collection together.
What does poetry mean to you? Who are your favorite poets? We'd enjoy hearing your thoughts and sharing who inspires you? Please share in the comments below.
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