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Sleep and Dreams
Peter Washington
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Description for Sleep and Dreams
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Yeats's Lullaby to Rosetti's Nuptial Sleep, from Salvatore Quasimodo's Insomnia to Thom Gunn's Annihilation of Nothing, Poems of Sleep and Dreams evokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum ... Read more
Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Yeats's Lullaby to Rosetti's Nuptial Sleep, from Salvatore Quasimodo's Insomnia to Thom Gunn's Annihilation of Nothing, Poems of Sleep and Dreams evokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841597607
SKU
V9781841597607
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99-23
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