| Description |
xix, 310 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes indexes. |
| Summary |
"A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, however, a rare and fascinating collection, will profoundly move the strongest men--and women--to heartfelt tears. Father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, a British writer and movie producer respectively, have teamed up to compile a poetry anthology unlike any other. Poets whose work is represented in this collection include W.H. Auden, Charles Bukowski, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, Harold Pinter, Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and a host of other notables. Familiar personalities who have confessed to breaking down range from J.J. Abrams to John le Carre;, Seamus Heaney to Richard Dawkins, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, and Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth. Each explains why the poems have made them cry--often in words as moving as the poetry itself--delivering private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, or thinking you have enjoyed and admired. In Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, not only will you savor old favorites and discover new gems; you will share private moments through the joys and sorrows of some of the most moving poetry ever written. Most important, you will learn more about yourself in the process"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"A unique collection of the world's finest poets and their most touching poems that has moved one hundred internationally renowned men to tears"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
"Elegy" by Chidiock Tichborne / David McVicar -- Sonnet XXX by William Shakespeare / Melvyn Bragg -- "On My First Son" by Ben Jonson / John Carey -- "Amor constante mas alla de la muerte" by Francisco de Quevedo / Ariel Dorfman and Javier Marias -- "Hokku" by Fukuda Chiyo-ni / Boris Akunin -- "Wandrers Nachtlied II" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / John Le Carre -- "Frost at Midnight" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Sebastian Faulks -- "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth / Harold Evans -- "Surprised by Joy" by William Wordsworth / Howard Jacobson -- "Last Sonnet" by John Keats / Kenneth Lonergan -- Extract from The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley / David Edgar -- "I Am" by John Clare / Ken Loach -- "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances" by Walt Whitman / Stephen Fry -- "Remember" by Christina Rossetti / Robert Fisk and Julian Fellowes -- "After Great Pain" by Emily Dickinson / Douglas Kennedy -- Extract from Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen / Kenneth Branagh -- "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson / Christopher Buckley -- "The Remorseful Day" by A. E. Housman / Joe Klein -- "The Wind, One Brilliant Day" by Antonio Machado / Robert Bly -- "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes" by Rainer Maria Rilke / Colm Toibin -- "Ithaka" by Constantine P. Cavafy / Walter Salles -- "At Castle Boterel" by Thomas Hardy / Alan Hollinghurst -- "The Voice" by Thomas Hardy / Seamus Heaney -- "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas / Simon Winchester -- "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke / Hugh Bonneville -- "During Wind and Rain" by Thomas Hardy / Ken Follett -- "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen / Christopher Hitchens -- "God's World" by Edna St. Vincent Millay / Patrick Stewart -- "Everyone Sang" by Siegfried Sassoon / Barry Humphries -- "Last Poems: XL" by A. E. Housman / Andrew Motion and Richard Dawkins -- "God Wills It" by Gabriela Mistral / Jeremy Irons -- "Out of Work" by Kenneth H. Ashley / Felix Dennis -- "All the Pretty Horses" by Anonymous / Carl Bernstein -- "The Cool Web" by Robert Graves / John Sutherland -- "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane / Harold Bloom -- "Bavarian Gentians" by D. H. Lawrence / Simon Armitage -- "A Summer Night" by W. H. Auden / William Boyd -- "Those Who Are Near Me Do Not Know" by Rabindranath Tagore / Chris Cooper -- "Let My Country Awake" by Rabindranath Tagore / Salil Shetty and David Puttnam -- Extract from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce / James McManus -- "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" by W. H. Auden / Salman Rushdie -- "Lullaby" by W. H. Auden / Simon Schama and Simon Callow -- "If I Could Tell You" by W. H. Auden / Alexander McCall Smith -- "Canoe" by Keith Douglas / Clive James -- "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke / Stanley Tucci -- "The Book Burnings" by Bertolt Brecht / Jack Mapanje -- "Liberte" by Paul Eluard / Joe Wright -- Extract from "The Pisan Cantos" by Ezra Pound / Craig Raine -- "I see a girl dragged by the wrists" by Philip Larkin / Simon Russell Beale -- "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks / Terrance Hayes -- "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell / Paul Muldoon -- "War Has Been Brought into Disrepute" by Bertolt Brecht / David Hare -- "Le Message" by Jacques Prevert / Peter Sis -- "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas / Benjamin Zephaniah -- "Unfinished Poem" by Philip Larkin / Frank Kermode -- "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance" by Elizabeth Bishop / John Ashbery -- "End of Summer" by Stanley Kunitz / Nicholson Baker -- "The Horses" by Edwin Muir / Alexei Sayle -- "Friday's Child" by W. H. Auden / Rowan Williams -- "Long Distance I and II" by Tony Harrison / Daniel Radcliffe -- "The Widower in the Country" by Les Murray / Nick Cave -- "A Blessing" by James Arlington Wright / Richard Ford -- "Injustice" by Pablo Neruda / Carlos Reyes-Manzo -- "The Meaning of Africa" by Abioseh N |
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English poetry.
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American poetry.
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Men -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Holden, Anthony, 1947- editor.
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Holden, Ben, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781476712772 (hardback) |
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1476712778 (hardcover) |
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9781476712789 (paperback) |
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1476712786 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40023526183 |
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