POEMS OF THE SEA (EVERYMANS LIBRARY POCKET POETS)

Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvellous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin including Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies, Poe's beloved Annabel Lee, Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five", Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers, we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless seas.