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
LORD BYRON
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
THE DIVINE COMEDY VOLUME 3 PARADISE Penguin Black Classics
DANTE ALIGHIERI
The Penguin Book of English Song Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden Penguin Black Classics
RICHARD STOKES
Complete Prose
WOODY ALLEN
PICADOR/PAN MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LIMITED
The Divine Comedy The Inferno The Purgatorio and The Paradiso
Smoke and Mirrors
MICHAEL FAUDET
ANDREWS MCMEEL PUBLISHING/SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.
WINTER ROSESE AFTER FALL
Robert M. Drake,R.H. SIN
Almost Paradise New and Selected Poems and Translations
SAM HAMILL
SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS INC.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems Alma Classics Great Poets
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
ALMA BOOKS LTD /BLOOMSBURY
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