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The Shield of Heracles is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. It has been suggested that this epic may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War (595–585 BCE): in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians.

Ilse van Staden gehört zu den wichtigsten literarischen Stimmen der Post-Apartheit in Südafrika. Nach Jahrzehnten der Zensur konnte Afrikaans sein Image als die “Sprache des Unterdrückers” ablegen und hat unerwartet neue und befreite literarische Formen angenommen. Im Gedichtband...

A dark academia anthology of poetry, art, quotes, musings, fashion, and more... Embark into a world of midnight shadows and secrets, of books and learning, mystery and intrigue. This book is written for the dark academic: the student, the scholar, a seeker of truth, a lover of lost art and dusty tomes. For keepers of the perpetually burning flame. So take my hand, dear reader, turn the page, and let yourself fall into the world of dark academia.

Our homes are a reflection of us. They say something about ourselves, our families and who we are. This book is about growing up in my mother's house from the 1970s in the inner city of Nottingham, England. Each room in our house had a purpose, playing a part in our family life. Through the stories and poems in each chapter of the book, you can take a glimpse into each room of the house and my experiences in a large Caribbean family, from child to adult. The rooms of my mother's house may be different to yours, but they tell of belonging and becoming.

كتاب «أبيات القصيد» هو مختارات أدبية منتقاة بعناية من أجمل وأشهر أبيات الشعر العربي، اختارها غازي القصيبي. يحتفي الكتاب بثراء الشعر العربي الأصيل، ويبرز أبياتًا خالدة تجسد الحكمة، والبلاغة، وجمال التعبير، لتأخذ القارئ في رحلة ممتعة بين روائع التراث الشعري العربي وقيمه الإنسانية الخالدة.

كتاب «أبيات فاقت شهرة قائليها» هو مختارات أدبية تضم أشهر الأبيات في الشعر العربي التي ذاعت وانتشرت حتى غلبت شهرتها شهرة أصحابها. ويصحب هذه الأبيات شرحٌ وتأملات تبرز ما تحمله من حكمة، وبلاغة، وقيم أدبية، مع إضاءة على سياقاتها الشعرية والتاريخية.

The late 1990s seemed like a simpler time compared to the state of the world today. The internet was just starting, cell phones were not in widespread use, and there was no social media. But, when you're 16 and experiencing your first heartbreak, nothing seems simple. Every moment is monumental...

This power and moving work examines what it means to be a girl, a sister, a mother, a wife—a woman—and all the challenges and cheer it brings to life. In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human...

A collection of the greatest war poetry ever written, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Tragedy, war and humanity are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written about, or on, the battlefield.

Since 2013, She Grrrowls has been bringing live shows of talented women in comedy, music, poetry (and everything in between) to stages across London. In this anthology, Carmina Masoliver - founder, poet and feminist - has selected and commissioned new work from ten poets who have featured at the event over the years. 

113 brand new poems. Responding to 113 songs by Taylor Swift. Can you match every poem to the song that inspired it? 🦋✨💜☎️🌃🐍🌸🌲🍂🌟🖋️ 'If you like Taylor Swift easter eggs, this is the book for you... so much fun!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If you're a fan of Swift's music...

For over thirty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends to his friends instead of a Christmas card. In September 2007 an invited audience enjoyed a special performance by John Julius Norwich of a...

Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost.

Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it...All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words". Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems...

A collection of classic love poetry Composed by many of the world’s best known and most celebrated poets—including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, and others—Valentines spans not only the ages, but the full...

The night writers in Cousineau's vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac) writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love, and languorously greet the first rays of dawn.

Enjoy the best of Lakeland poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey in this specially selected anthology, including The Two-Part Prelude, Wordsworth's own shortened version of his great autobiographical work The Prelude, and Coleridge's celebrated Kubla Khan. John Rowe, Alex Jennings and Stephen...

El poemario que consagra a la poeta joven más popular del mundo y voz de su generación. Con una sensibilidad exquisita, rupi kaur aborda en todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores obras como el feminismo, el trauma, la pérdida...

Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W. Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve. We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around. This is our tribute to mothers everywhere.