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The cover of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, published in 1917, a collection of twelve poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" referenced in the title. A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook.
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors. There are also thematic and genre-based anthologies.
The Book of Songs encompasses poems written between 1817 and 1826, representing Heine's early work. It took almost twenty years for the second major poetry collection, New Poems, to be published in 1844 (followed by the third and final collection, Romanzero, in 1851). The political satire typical of Heine's later works, such as Germany.
Book of Songs may refer to: Classic of Poetry, sometimes referred to as Book of Songs, an anthology of ancient Chinese poetry; Kitab al-Aghani, a collection of poems and songs by 10th-century Arab scholar Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani; Buch der Lieder, a collection of poems written by 19th-century German poet and writer Heinrich Heine
The Orphic Hymns are a collection of 87 short poems in Greek religion. [14] Patristic writers began applying the term ὕμνος, or hymnus in Latin, to Christian songs of praise, and frequently used the word as a synonym for "psalm". [15]
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
The various poems are mostly by men, though some by women. The collection contains over 600 pieces focused on the ideals of feminine beauty, and some of the poems are matter-of-factly homoerotic, describing the beloved young man involved in much the same terms as the female beloved is in other pieces.
Evoking both the muses and the encyclopedia in its title, Musapaedia aptly brings together a variety of poems and authors into a single volume. A miscellany (UK: / m ɪ ˈ s ɛ l ə n i /, US: / ˈ m ɪ s ə l eɪ n i /) [1] [2] is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.