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A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).
The Best American Poetry series – maximum of 75 poems published each year in the anthology series; The Best New Poets series – maximum of 50 poems published each year in the anthology series; Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry – offered by the Library of Congress for the best book of poetry published by a living U.S. author during the ...
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
"List, the winds of March are blowing;" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1835 If this great world of joy and pain 1833 "If this great world of joy and pain" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1835 On a high part of the coast of Cumberland, Easter Sunday, April 7, the Author's sixty-third Birthday 1833 "The Sun, that seemed so mildly to retire,"
Luís de Camões, one of the best-known poets of the 16th century. Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet; Dilys Cadwaladr (1902–1979), Welsh poet and fiction writer in Welsh; Cædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name; Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in Gaelic
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture" [64] poetry, essay, memoir 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) France: French "for his work, which rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age" [65]
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.