One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet.

"To accompany Eliot's poems, Ricks and McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. This second volume opens with two books of verse: the children's verse of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of...

"To accompany Eliot's poems, Ricks and McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. This second volume opens with two books of verse: the children's verse of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of...

Published in 1930, "Alguma poesia" and one of those key moments in any literary culture: the debut of an author who would mark future generations, if the miner Carlos Drummond de Andrade. With poems that since then have been imposed as our classic modernism as "Poema de sete faces", "Infância", "No meio do o caminho", "O sobrevivente", The book shows the paths used by the poet throughout his long and productive career, the meditation on the brevity...

Hundreds of books and articles have been written about Edgar Allan Poe. Even so, no one is really sure who Poe was. Many people say that he was as crazy as the characters he wrote about. Others say that Poe was a driven man with a simple wish. He wanted to write and to make a living by his writing. Even though Poe lived a miserable life, he wrote some of the most interesting and original literature ever created.

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Six half-hour programs that contain famous spoken texts from his plays and poetry and linked musical excerpts within a given theme. The programs are centered on vocal excerpts, but also contain instrumental and chamber music pieces.