A 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). 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.
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