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1 volume ; 20 cm |
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Originally published: 2014. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Elegy / by Chidiock Tichborne / David McVicar -- Sonnet XXX / by William Shakespeare / Melvyn Bragg -- On my first son / by Ben Jonson / John Carey -- Amor constante más allá de la muerte / by Francisco de Quevedo / Ariel Dorfman and Javier Marías -- Hokku / by Fukuda Chiyo-ni / Boris Akunin -- Wandrers Nachtlied II / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / John Le Carré -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Sebastian Faulks -- Character of the happy warrior / by William Wordsworth / Harold Evans -- Surprised by joy / by William Wordsworth / Howard Jacobson -- Last sonnet / by John Keats / Kenneth Lonergan -- Extract from Masque of Anarchy / by Percy Bysshe Shelley / David Edgar -- I Am / by John Clare / Ken Loach -- Of the terrible doubt of appearances / by Walt Whitman / Stephen Fry -- Remember / by Christina Rossetti / Robert Fisk and Julian Fellowes -- After great pain / by Emily Dickinson / Douglas Kennedy -- Extract from Peer Gynt / by Henrik Ibsen / Kenneth Branagh -- Requiem / by Robert Louis Stevenson / Christopher Buckley -- Remorseful day / by A.E. Housman / Joe Klein -- Wind, one brilliant day / by Antonio Machado / Robert Bly -- Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes / by Rainer Maria Rilke / Colm Tóibín -- Ithaka / by Constantine P. Cavafy / Walter Salles -- At Castle Boterel / by Thomas Hardy / Alan Hollinghurst -- Voice / by Thomas Hardy / Seamus Heaney -- Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas / Simon Winchester -- Soldier / by Rupert Brooke / Hugh Bonneville -- During wind and rain / by Thomas Hardy / Ken Follett -- Dulce et decorum est / by Wilfred Owen / Christopher Hitchens -- God's world / by Edna St. Vincent Millay / Patrick Stewart -- Everyone sang / by Siegfried Sassoon / Barry Humphries -- Last poems: XL / by A.E. Housman / Andrew Motion and Richard Dawkins -- God wills it / by Gabriela Mistral / Jeremy Irons -- Out of work / by Kenneth H. Ashley / Felix Dennis -- All the pretty horses / by Anonymous / Carl Bernstein -- Cool web / by Robert Graves / John Sutherland -- Broken tower / by Hart Crane / Harold Bloom -- Bavarian gentians / by D.H. Lawrence / Simon Armitage -- A summer night / by W.H. Auden / William Boyd -- Those who are near me do not know / by Rabindranath Tagore / Chris Cooper -- Let my country awake / by Rabindranath Tagore / Salil Shetty and David Puttnam -- Extract from Finnegans Wake / by James Joyce / James McManus -- In memory of W.B. Yeats / by W.H. Auden / Salman Rushdie -- Lullaby / by W.H. Auden / Simon Schama and Simon Callow -- If I could tell you / by W.H. Auden / Alexander McCall Smith -- Canoe / by Keith Douglas / Clive James -- My Papa's waltz / by Theodore Roethke / Stanley Tucci -- Book burnings / by Bertolt Brecht / Jack Mapanje -- Liberté / by Paul Éluard / Joe Wright -- Extract from Pisan cantos / by Ezra Pound / Craig Raine |
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I see a girl dragged by the wrists / by Philip Larkin / Simon Russell Beale -- Mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks / Terrance Hayes -- Death of the ball turret gunner / by Randall Jarrell / Paul Muldoon -- War has been brought into disrepute / by Bertolt Brecht / David Hare -- Le message / by Jacques Prévert / Peter Sís -- Do not go gentle into that good night / by Dylan Thomas / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Unfinished poem / by Philip Larkin / Frank Kermode -- Over 2,000 illustrations and a complete concordance / by Elizabeth Bishop / John Ashbery -- End of summer / by Stanley Kunitz / Nicholson Baker -- Horses / by Edwin Muir / Alexei Sayle -- Friday's child / by W.H. Auden / Rowan Williams -- Long distance I and II / by Tony Harrison / Daniel Radcliffe -- Widower in the country / by Les Murray / Nick Cave -- A blessing / by James Arlington Wright / Richard Ford -- Injustice / by Pablo Neruda / Carlos Reyes-Manzo -- Meaning of Africa / by Abioseh Nicol / James Earl Jones -- Elegy for Alto / by Christopher Okigbo / Ben Okri -- Requiem for the croppies / by Seamus Heaney / Terry George -- Gone ladies / by Christopher Logue / Brian Patten -- Dream song 90: Op. posth. no. 13 / by John Berryman / Al Alvarez -- Essay / by Hayden Carruth / Jonathan Franzen -- An exequy / by Peter Porter / Ian McEwan -- Crusoe in England / by Elizabeth Bishop / Andrew Solomon -- For Julia, in the deep water / by John N. Morris / Tobias Wolff -- Aubade / by Philip Larkin / William Sieghart -- Dear Bryan Wynter / by W.S. Graham / Nick Laird -- A meeting / by Wendell Berry / Colum McCann -- eulogy to a hell of a dame -- / by Charles Bukowski / Mike Leigh -- Midsummer: Sonnet XLIII / by Derek Walcott / Mark Haddon -- In Blackwater Woods / by Mary Oliver / Marc Forster -- Love after love / by Derek Walcott / Tom Hiddleston -- Extract from and our faces, my heart, brief as photos / by John Berger / Simon McBurney -- Sandra's Mobile / by Douglas Dunn / Richard Eyre -- Brindis con el Viejo / by Mauricio Rosencof / Juan Méndez -- An end or a beginning / by Bei Dao / Wuer Kaixi -- A call / by Seamus Heaney / Richard Curtis -- Extract from Eastern War Time / by Adrienne Rich / Anish Kapoor -- It is here (for A) / by Harold Pinter / Neil LaBute -- For Andrew Wood / by James Fenton / David Remnick -- Not cancelled yet / by John Updike / Joseph O'Neill -- Armada / by Brian Patten / Paul Bettany -- A poetry reading at West Point / by William Matthews / Tom McCarthy -- Bedecked / by Victoria Redel / Billy Collins -- Lanyard / by Billy Collins / J.J. Abrams -- Regarding the home of one's childhood, one could: / by Emily Zinnemann / Colin Firth -- For Ruthie Rogers in Venice / by Craig Raine / Richard Rogers -- Keys to the doors / by Robin Robertson / Mohsin Hamid -- Afterword / Nadine Gordimer. |
| Summary |
"A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, however, a rare and fascinating collection, will profoundly move the strongest men--and women--to heartfelt tears. Father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, a British writer and movie producer respectively, have teamed up to compile a poetry anthology unlike any other. Poets whose work is represented in this collection include W.H. Auden, Charles Bukowski, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, Harold Pinter, Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and a host of other notables. Familiar personalities who have confessed to breaking down range from J.J. Abrams to John le Carre, Seamus Heaney to Richard Dawkins, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, and Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth. Each explains why the poems have made them cry--often in words as moving as the poetry itself--delivering private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, or thinking you have enjoyed and admired. In Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, not only will you savor old favorites and discover new gems; you will share private moments through the joys and sorrows of some of the most moving poetry ever written. Most important, you will learn more about yourself in the process"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Collections.
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Emotions in literature.
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POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors). |
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POETRY / Inspirational & Religious. |
| Added Author |
Holden, Anthony, 1947- editor.
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Holden, Ben, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781471134906 (pbk.) |
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1471134903 (pbk.) |
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