Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, this expansive anthology gathers 600 poems by more than 250 poets. In addition to hundreds of masterworks in English, there are verses translated from Sanskrit, Egyptian, Hindi, Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Homeric Greek, including selections from the great epics and meditations, such as the Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and Tao Te Ching. The writers represented here range from ancient and medieval greats (Homer, Lu Yun, Dante, Rumi, Judah Halevi) to the metaphysical poets, including Donne; from the mystics and religious poets (Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, Hopkins) to more secular visionaries (Blake, Shelley, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Rilke, Stevens, and Ginsberg). The range of themes is equally wide, so whatever path your journey may take, Poetry for the Spirit will open your mind and touch your heart.
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This collection lives up to the title, providing a rich and expansive corpus of poems that leads one on a journey of discovery -- through the eyes of poets across the ages and continents -- of that which resonates across time and space at the core of all human spirits. A joy to give away as well as to keep. The organization according to time eras juxtaposes that which is culturally familiar side by side with the unfamiliar to startle one into the realization of the commonality and continuity of the voice of wisdom, beauty, and spiritual transcendence.
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Alan Jacobs' great anthology, 'Poetry for the Spirit', has deservedly become a classic. It has now run into four editions and its 573 pages are filled with the world's finest inspiring mystical and spiritual poetry, from the 'Rig Veda' up to Seamus Heaney, covering all major religions and traditions. If I had to take one book on a desert island, this would undoubtedly be it!The ideal bed-side dipper full of precious gems.
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- The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats by Norman A. Jeffares in Front Matter, and page 424
- Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by R S Thomas in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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