101 Poems That Could Save Your Life

101 Poems That Could Save Your Life
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 166
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062028556
ISBN-13 : 0062028553
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life by : Daisy Goodwin

Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over the rough spots. This is the first poetry anthology designed expressly for the self-help generation. The poems listed include classics by Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, and Lucretius, to name just a few, along with newer works by such current practitioners as Seamus Heaney and Wendy Cope. This book has a cure or consolation for nearly every affliction, ancient or modern. And no side effects-except pleasure.

101 Poems that Could Save Your Life

101 Poems that Could Save Your Life
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 166
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780002570725
ISBN-13 : 0002570726
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Poems that Could Save Your Life by : Daisy Goodwin

A poetry anthology designed for the self-help generation and including both classics and previously unpublished poems, this book provides a cure, or at least a consolation, for every modern misery.

101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night)

101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night)
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 164
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062028617
ISBN-13 : 0062028618
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night) by :

This is an anthology designed to help you get through the stresses of modern life. For rapid and effective relief around the clock, 24-7, without side effects, try a poem -- whatever the time of the day (or night), you can be sure that some poet, past or present, has been there too. To help you find the right poem at the right time, the organization of the book is like that of a book of hours. Starting with Getting Up, it then moves on to those other morning traumas: Stepping on the Scale and Looking into the Mirror. As the day moves on there are sections to cover everything, from Office Politics to Off to School. And if by five p.m. your head is throbbing, dig into the poems in the Take 5 section and let the world recede. By the end of the day you may want to look for inspiration among the poems in Going Home, but if you are intent on veering from the straight and narrow, then turn to the Behaving Badly poems and you'll find you're in good company. Anyone who feels vaguely guilty about settling down in front of the TV instead of taking café society by storm should turn to the poems in the Not Tonight section.

The American Heiress

The American Heiress
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 475
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ISBN-10 : 9781429987080
ISBN-13 : 1429987081
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Heiress by : Daisy Goodwin

Now including an excerpt from VICTORIA: A Novel, by Daisy Goodwin, the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS. "Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. "For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness." --Daisy Goodwin in The Daily Mail One of Library Journal's Best Historical Fiction Books of 2011

101 Great American Poems

101 Great American Poems
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 96
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780486110264
ISBN-13 : 0486110265
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Great American Poems by : The American Poetry & Literacy Project

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

Poems to Last a Lifetime

Poems to Last a Lifetime
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780007177073
ISBN-13 : 0007177070
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Poems to Last a Lifetime by : Daisy Goodwin

Beautifully illustrated anthology of poems.

101 Poems for Teachers

101 Poems for Teachers
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 223
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317924883
ISBN-13 : 1317924886
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Poems for Teachers by : Annette Breaux

One of the most sought-after and dynamic speakers in education, Annette Breaux has inspired audiences of teachers and administrators across the country. She has incorporated each of her presentations with her heartwarming original poetry. This collection brings together 101 of Breaux’s poems, from which teachers and school staff can draw continued motivation and enjoyment.

Risking Everything

Risking Everything
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Publisher : Harmony
Total Pages : 194
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307421524
ISBN-13 : 030742152X
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Risking Everything by : Roger Housden

“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.

101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night)

101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night)
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Publisher : Harper
Total Pages : 160
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0060529121
ISBN-13 : 9780060529123
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis 101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night) by : Daisy Goodwin

This is an anthology designed to help you get through the stresses of modern life. For rapid and effective relief around the clock, 24-7, without side effects, try a poem -- whatever the time of the day (or night), you can be sure that some poet, past or present, has been there too. To help you find the right poem at the right time, the organization of the book is like that of a book of hours. Starting with Getting Up, it then moves on to those other morning traumas: Stepping on the Scale and Looking into the Mirror. As the day moves on there are sections to cover everything, from Office Politics to Off to School. And if by five p.m. your head is throbbing, dig into the poems in the Take 5 section and let the world recede. By the end of the day you may want to look for inspiration among the poems in Going Home, but if you are intent on veering from the straight and narrow, then turn to the Behaving Badly poems and you'll find you're in good company. Anyone who feels vaguely guilty about settling down in front of the TV instead of taking cafÉ society by storm should turn to the poems in the Not Tonight section.

By Heart

By Heart
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 143
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0571192637
ISBN-13 : 9780571192632
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis By Heart by : Ted Hughes

What has happened to the lost art of memorising poems? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected 101 poems are both personal favourites and particularly well-suited to the method Hughes demonstrates. Spanning four centuries, ranging from Shakespeare and Keats through to Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney, By Heart offers the reader a 'mental gymnasium' in which the memory can be exercised and trained in the most pleasurable way. Some poems will be more of a challenge than others, but all will be treasured once they have become part of the memory bank. This edition is part of a series of anthologies edited by poets such as Don Paterson and Simon Armitage and features an attractive new design to complement an anthology of classic poems.