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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
River gods and nymphs frolic in Ovid's mythic telling. The trickster
Coyote reroutes a river in a Native American tale. A set of stone steps
at the shore of the Ganges bears witness to heartbreak in Rabindranath
Tagore's ‘River Stairs,’ and Mark Twain floats his rebellious heroes on
a raft to freedom. Kenneth Grahame's Rat and Mole explore their local
waterway in a rowboat, and Ernest Hemingway's war-weary veteran finds
peace while catching trout.
From The Wind in the Willows to Huckleberry Finn, from Hemingway's ‘Big
Two-Hearted River’ to Alice Munro's ‘The Found Boat’ and Zadie Smith's
‘The Lazy River,’ the tales collected here―by such luminaries as
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, E.M. Forster, Hermann Hesse,
Zora Neale Hurston, Cormac McCarthy, Elif Shafak, and many more―set
moving scenes against the backdrop of moving waters, in testament to
the enduring power of rivers in the human imagination.
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River Poems (Hardcover)
Various; Edited by Henry Hughes; Contributions by William Shakespeare, Alice Oswald, Seamus Heaney, …
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Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris
and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the
Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities from
London to New York, so it is natural that poets have for centuries
drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents.
English poets from Shakespeare and Dryden, Wordsworth and Byron to
Ted Hughes, John Betjeman and Alice Oswald; Irish poets - Eavan
Boland, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, to name but a few; Scottish
and Welsh poets from Henry Vaughan and Robert Louis Stevenson to
Robin Robertson and Gillian Clarke. A whole raft of American poets
from Whitman, Emerson and Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, Mary
Oliver, Natasha Trethewey and Grace Paley. Folk songs.
African-American spirituals. Poems from ancient Egypt and Rome.
From medieval China and Japan. And a truly international selection
of modern poets from Europe (France, Italy, Russia, Serbia), India,
Africa, Australia and South and Central America, all combining in
celebration of the rivers of the world. From the Mississippi to the
Limpopo. From the Dart to the Danube. Plunge in.
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