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Poems of the Sea (Everyman's Library pocket poets)

Poems of the Sea (Everyman's Library pocket poets)
By J.D. McClatchy

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Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed.
This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here–sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers–we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless waters, as metaphor, mystery, and muse.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #931497 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-09-28
  • Format: Import
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 251 pages

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Sea Fever5
This book holds some of the best-loved ocean and water poems of all time, including all 3 verses of my absolute favorite poem by John Masefield, Sea Fever.

Oh I must go down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship
and a star to steer her by
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song,
and the white sail's shaking
And a grey mist on the sea's face
and a grey dawn breaking . . .

The book's main sections are:
Sea Fever,
The Call of the Deep
Storm and Call
Ballads
Songs and Chanteys
Anthem Prayer and Hymn
Seafarers
Wrecks at Sea
Legends
Above and Beyond
Reading the Waves.
Authors include of course John Masefield, but also Robert Frost, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, John Milton, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Percy Shelley. There are also anonymous poems including Trafalgar, Davey Jones's Locker, Blow the Man Down, and Drunken Sailor.

If you love the water and if you love books, you will love this little volume of poems.