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The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
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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.
100 Love Sonnets
A hundred sonnets for Matilde Urrutia, arranged as morning, midday, evening and night.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Neruda's early masterwork of erotic longing and oceanic imagery.
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Anne Carson's translation of Sappho's surviving fragments of desire, beauty, and loss.
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.
Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
Eugene Onegin
A bored St Petersburg dandy rejects the love of Tatyana, a country girl, and years later finds himself in love with her, in the verse novel that founded the Russian literary tradition.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
Complete Poems
Quasimodo's poems from the hermetic lyrics of his Sicilian youth to the poems of war and Liberation that made his name.
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.
Doctor Zhivago
A poet and a woman torn between him and a Bolshevik commander live through the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and the landscape of Russia becomes a character.
Pan
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, living alone with his dog in a forest hut in northern Norway one summer, falls for Edvarda, the moody daughter of the local trader, and the two torment each other.