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Bewitched and Haunted
John Hollander
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Description for Bewitched and Haunted
hardcover. This is a series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. This book draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. In time for the year's Halloween revels comes a horrible array of spectres and sorcerers, ghosts and demons, hags and apparitions. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets S. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 107 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
In time for this year's Halloween revels comes a horrible array of spectres and sorcerers, ghosts and demons, hags and apparitions. From Homer and Horace via Pope and Poe to Graves and Hardy, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil summons Aeneas's wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. Ballads, odes, spells, chants, dialogues, ... Read more
In time for this year's Halloween revels comes a horrible array of spectres and sorcerers, ghosts and demons, hags and apparitions. From Homer and Horace via Pope and Poe to Graves and Hardy, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil summons Aeneas's wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. Ballads, odes, spells, chants, dialogues, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets S.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841597669
SKU
9781841597669
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