The Oxford Book of Travel VerseKevin Crossley-Holland Oxford University Press, 1986 - 423 頁 Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the British have for many centuries ventured forth to see the world. Among them have been great poets like Marvell, Shelley, Coleridge, and Rossetti, and some whose voices are less well-known, brought together for the first time in an anthology that charts the British abroad as reflected in their verse. The romantic passion of Wordsworth and Byron, fired by the awesome landscape of the Alps or the glories of Italy, is tempered by the reaction of travelers faced with discomfort, delay and dissapointment: James Boswell in Mannheim, Miss Emily Brittle on her way to India, and David Constantine watching for dolphins. Poet-adventurers and poet-diplomats, writing about voyages with Captain Cook and expeditions to Mt. Everest, the British in India and the Russian character and landscape, rub shoulders with sacred voyagers to the Holy Land and the contemporary day-visitor to France. Reflecting on their reactions to the new America are William McGonagall and Rudyard Kipling. While in the present century Lawrence Durrell, Alan Ross and D. J. Enright take us to Australia, the Far East and South America. At the end, the reader will have traveled to almost every country in the world and enjoyed selections from some five centuries of verse. |
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... heart is well content , With every chance that shall betide ; No hag can hinder his intent ; He steadfast stands ... heart remaineth still , And not be drowned in deep despair : Wherefore I judge all lands alike , To haughty hearts who ...
... heart is well content , With every chance that shall betide ; No hag can hinder his intent ; He steadfast stands ... heart remaineth still , And not be drowned in deep despair : Wherefore I judge all lands alike , To haughty hearts who ...
第 112 頁
... heart - worshipped , fancy - haunted , name , Once loud on earth , but now scarce else renowned Than as the offspring of that stranger's fame . There lie the Stuarts ! -There lingers Walter Scott ! Strange congress of illustrious ...
... heart - worshipped , fancy - haunted , name , Once loud on earth , but now scarce else renowned Than as the offspring of that stranger's fame . There lie the Stuarts ! -There lingers Walter Scott ! Strange congress of illustrious ...
第 157 頁
... heart's Split - second scaffolding of a poem Assembling in the skull's archways . The spite of the sun Splinters the discs of shade the olives cast , Crumples the fetishes of the carob - tree That hang in haze and dazzles the track of ...
... heart's Split - second scaffolding of a poem Assembling in the skull's archways . The spite of the sun Splinters the discs of shade the olives cast , Crumples the fetishes of the carob - tree That hang in haze and dazzles the track of ...
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