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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... heaven - taught lore : Know , Bruno brings it , and returns no more . ' ( Half sighed , half smiled his long farewell ) He turned , and vanished in the bright'ning dell . WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770-1850 It is a beauteous Evening , calm and ...
... heaven - taught lore : Know , Bruno brings it , and returns no more . ' ( Half sighed , half smiled his long farewell ) He turned , and vanished in the bright'ning dell . WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770-1850 It is a beauteous Evening , calm and ...
第 109 頁
... heaven - sustaining bulwark reared Between the East and West ; and half the sky Was roofed with clouds of rich emblazonry Dark purple at the zenith , which still grew Down the steep West into a wondrous hue Brighter than burning gold ...
... heaven - sustaining bulwark reared Between the East and West ; and half the sky Was roofed with clouds of rich emblazonry Dark purple at the zenith , which still grew Down the steep West into a wondrous hue Brighter than burning gold ...
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... Heavens is allotted for me . ' FAKIR Let me first know your merits . INDIAN I strive to be just : To be true to my friend ... Heaven the third . With me in the thirtieth your seat to obtain , You must qualify duly with hunger and pain ...
... Heavens is allotted for me . ' FAKIR Let me first know your merits . INDIAN I strive to be just : To be true to my friend ... Heaven the third . With me in the thirtieth your seat to obtain , You must qualify duly with hunger and pain ...
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