Books like Four Quartets
Four long meditative poems, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding, on time, faith and history, finished during the Second World War.
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Duino Elegies
Ten elegies Rilke began at Duino Castle on the Adriatic in 1912 and finished in a burst ten years later, asking who would hear him if he cried out, and what being human means beside the angels.
The Book of Hours
Prayers in the voice of a young monk addressing a God he imagines as unfinished and close at hand, the book that first made Rilke's name.
New and Collected Poems
Seventy years of Miłosz's poems, from the Warsaw of the war years to old age in California and Kraków.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
Gitanjali
Song offerings of devotion, nature and the infinite, the collection that won Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize and introduced his work to readers in the West.
O the Chimneys
Poems and verse dramas from Sachs's years in Swedish exile, mourning the Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
The Axion Esti
A long poem in the form of an Orthodox liturgy, moving from the creation of the world through the Greek war of the 1940s to a hymn of praise for the things of this world.
The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks's versions of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet, poems of divine love, longing and the dissolving of the self in the beloved.
The Wild Iris
A book-length sequence of poems spoken by the flowers of a garden, by the gardener, and by the god they all address.
Complete Poems
Quasimodo's poems from the hermetic lyrics of his Sicilian youth to the poems of war and Liberation that made his name.
Collected Poems
Seferis's poems, from Mythistorema to the poems of exile in the war years, in which the islands, the sea and the ruins of ancient Greece stand in for a modern country's grief.
Wade in the Water
The former US Poet Laureate writes through Civil War letters, motherhood, and ecological grief, listening for the voices buried in the national record.