In this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing 20 nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s, the majority are public figures not prone to crying. Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. 75 per cent of the selected poems were written in the 20th century, with more than a dozen by women. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. Three men have suffered the pain of losing a child; others are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope's famous phrase, 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd'. From J.J Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave, Ian McEwan to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth, and Seamus Heaney to Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men...
SOUND OF SILENCE
PRITI HIMATSINGKA
PILGRIMS BOOK PVT. LTD. DELHI
Selected Poems Penguin Black Classics
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
LORD BYRON
The Complete Poems Penguin Black Classics
WALT WHITMAN
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory Penguin Black Classics
DANTE ALIGHIERI
THE DIVINE COMEDY VOLUME 3 PARADISE Penguin Black Classics
Purgatorio Volume 2 Penguin Black Classics
Paradiso Volume 3 Paradiso Penguin Black Classics
Selected Poems 1947 1995 Penguin Modern Classics
ALLEN GINSBERG
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