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Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
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Death of a Naturalist
Heaney's first book of poems, out of a childhood on a farm in County Derry: digging, blackberries, frogspawn, the flax-dam and the churning day.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
Platero and I
Prose poems of a poet and Platero, his small silver-grey donkey, walking the streets and fields of Moguer, an Andalusian village, through the seasons of a year.
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
All of Tranströmer's poems, half a century of short, luminous pieces about nature, music, dreams and the border between waking and sleep.
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
Thirty years of Heaney's poems, from Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level, with his Nobel lecture.
My Sister, Life
The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
Cuttlefish Bones
Montale's first book of poems, of the harsh, sunlit Ligurian coast he grew up on and the search for a way out of a closed world.
Barbarian Odes
Carducci's poems in the metres of Latin verse, on Roman ruins, Italian landscapes and the passing of time.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
Mirèio
A verse epic in Provençal: Mirèio, daughter of a rich farmer in the Crau, falls for Vincèn, a poor basket-maker's son, and her family refuses him.
Complete Poems
Quasimodo's poems from the hermetic lyrics of his Sicilian youth to the poems of war and Liberation that made his name.
A Longing for the Light
Selected poems from across Aleixandre's life, from the surrealist love poems of Destruction or Love to the late poems of memory and knowledge.