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Complete Poems
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James Weldon Johnson
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9781101177006, 9780141185453
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Penguin Classics
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2000 marks the centenary of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” James Weldon Johnson’s most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson’s published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God’s Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along with a number of previously unpublished poems. Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson’s many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 

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Salvatore Quasimodo
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9781800171367, 9781800171084
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Carcanet Classics
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Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. The citation declares, ‘his lyrical poetry with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time’. Jack Bevan’s authoritative translation of Quasimodo life work fills a great gap in our knowledge of twentieth-century European poetry. ‘The poetry is textured like shot silk, yet the elegance and syntactical lucidity with which Jack Bevan has worked to bring these poems to English readers enables them to stand as poems in their own right,’ wrote Peter Scupham of Bevan’s translation of Quasimodo’s last poems, Debit and Credit.Quasimodo’s strong and passionate writing continues to testify to the human – and inhuman – realities which have created our modern world. The Italian critic Giuliano Dego wrote, ‘To bear witness to man’s history in all the urgency of a particular time and place, and to teach the lesson of courage, this has been Quasimodo’s poetic task.’

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Complete Poems
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Marianne Moore
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9781101127476, 9780140188516, 9780140423006, 9780670235056, 9780140586015
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Penguin Classics
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“Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.” –The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, covering more than sixty years of writing, and incorporating the final revisions she made to the texts. The poems demonstrate Moore’s wide range of interests, moving from witty images of animals, sporting events, and social institutions, to thoughtful meditations on human nature. In entertaining informative notes, Moore reveals the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines within them. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Complete Poems
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Claude McKay
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9780252094972, 9780252075902, 9780252028823
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University of Illinois Press
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Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. McKay’s first poems were composed in rural Jamaican creole and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from the bottom up. Migrating to New York, he reinvigorated the English sonnet and helped spark the Harlem Renaissance with poems such as “If We Must Die.” After coming under scrutiny for his communism, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa for twelve years and returned to Harlem in 1934, having denounced Stalin’s Soviet Union. By then, McKay’s pristine “violent sonnets” were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism. McKay’s verse eludes easy definition, yet this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, acquaints readers with the full transnational evolution of a major voice in twentieth-century poetry.

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Christopher Marlowe
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9780486153872, 9780486426747
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Dover Publications
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Best known for his tragic plays and his refined and polished blank verse, Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) was born in the same year as fellow writer William Shakespeare. Marlowe’s career was cut short by a tavern brawl, in which he died under circumstances as mysterious and violent as any of his dramas. This complete collection of Marlowe’s poetry includes his translations of Ovid’s “Elegies” and the First Book from Lucan’s “Civil Hero.” The celebrated “Hero and Leander,” left unfinished at Marlowe’s death, is also featured (the poem was later completed by George Chapman; only Marlowe’s work appears here), as is the poet’s most famous creation, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.”

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