Sleep and Dreams

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream-life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Yeats''s "Lullaby" to Rosetti''s "Nuptial Sleep," from Salvatore Quasimodo''s "Insomnia" to Thom Gunn''s "Annihilation of Nothing," Poems of Sleep and Dreams evokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep and dream.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Washington
• Assisted by: Peter Washington (Editor), Washington Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2004
• EAN: 9781841597607
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-760-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 165 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Classic and pre-20th century poetry, the dark; dark night; dark thoughts, Poetry / Poems