EAN: 9780593320198

BOOKS AND LIBRARIES - ANDREW SCRIMGEOUR GEBUNDEN

An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology that testifies to
the passion books and libraries have inspired through the ages and around the world Books have
long captured the love  imagination  even the veneration  of readers everywhere. Emily
Dickinson envisions these precious objects as Frigates” that take us Lands away”  Alberto Rios
calls them the deli offerings of civilization itself.” This affection extends to the hallowed
gathering places of the written word: the libraries and bookshops where one can best hear a
choir of authors murmuring inside their books ” as Billy Collins has it. The poets collected
here range from the writer of Ecclesiastes in the third century BCE through such pillars of
world literature as Catullus  Horace  T’ao Ch’ien  Dante  Petrarch  Boccaccio  Pierre de
Ronsard  Lope de Vega  Shakespeare  Goethe  and Wordsworth  more recent luminaries include
Jorge Luis Borges  C. P. Cavafy  Gabriela Mistral  Wallace Stevens  Iku Takenaka  Pablo Neruda
Wislawa Szymborska  Maya Angelou  and Derek Walcott. A remarkably diverse treasury of literary
celebrations  Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the
book-obsessed. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards  printing on
acid-free cream-colored paper  with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping  decorative
endpapers  silk ribbon markers  European-style half-round spines  and a full-color illustrated
jacket.

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