Habo Bibliotek

It is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, 'Leaves ...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; Merry and Pippin; Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy...great duos often help to make great literature. So when two soon-to-be luminaries of the English Ro ...

Du visste inte vad du skulle ta dig för, så du satte dig ner och började på en berättelse, fördrev tiden med att foga händelse till händelse på pappret. Du filade och slipade tills ...

Join Aurora on her travels from Florence to London - a coming of age journey full of trials and tribulations. Spanning 9 books, Browning’s poetic blank verse evokes classical and m ...

Poetry lovers look no further! Elizabeth Barret Browning’s passionate collection of 44 love sonnets is all you'll ever need. Following the Italian model made popular by Petrarch, B ...

Bortglömda sånger i en skrivbordslåda finns kvar som text även när melodierna glömts bort. De femtio år gamla sångtexterna är från författarens tidiga tonår i början av sjuttiotale ...

»En av det engelska språkets mest firade och kontroversiella efterkrigspoeter.« Margaret Atwood»Dikterna känns i kroppen och de stannar kvar i tanken på ett sätt som endast riktigt ...

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) föddes i County Derry, på den nordirländska landsbygden. Hans första större diktsam­ling,Death of a Naturalist, utkom 1966 och följdes av poesi, kritik oc ...

Tämän esikoisteoksen päiväkirjamaiset runot johdattavat lukijan kroonisen kivun ja sen aiheuttamien tunteiden äärelle. Kerronta poukkoilee menneisyyden ja nykyhetken välillä luonte ...

" Seksi on minäksi tulemisen ehto." Do ut des. jääkö meille vaihtoehtoa?

You won't fail to be captured by one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s greatest books 'Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems'.<br><br>Religious and spiritual, the studies and poems reflec ...

'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.'<br>It's the classic temptation - power. And these are the words John Milton puts on the forked tongue of the serpent when it spea ...

‘The Prophet’ is a collection of prose poetry offering spiritual insights into a range of subjects. Through 26 fables, Gibran explores everything from love, marriage, and children ...

Soldier, secretary, Anglican priest, MP, father of 12, Dean of St Paul's...it's amazing that John Donne had any spare time.<br><br>But this collection of his poems shows why it is ...

She was the 'Nightingale of India', and her voice was first heard in 1905 when 'The Golden Threshold' was published.<br><br>This collection of Sarojini Naidu's early work is alread ...

Tämä Juha Rahkosen ensimmäinen runokirja pitää sisällään yli 100 runoa/mietettä lähinnä hänen elämästään harvinaisen sairauden kanssa. Sekä lyriikkaa, josta on tehnyt biisejä. Tämä ...

Kirja kertoo aiempien runokirjojeni tapaan pohjoisen luonnosta ,kuinka siellä eletään vuodesta toiseen. Kirja kertoo ihmissuhteista, niiden vaikeudesta ja siitä miten pää pysyy ka ...

Pandemi, krig, konflikter och en tilltagande klimatkris. Bara sedan 2020 har världsläget drastiskt förändrats. Vi lever i en, minst sagt, märklig tid. Sedan utbrottet av pandemin ...

Spärreld, ursprungligen utgiven 1936, är Ester Sjöbloms uppmärksammade diktdebut. Här i ny utgåva i N/L:s poesibibliotek. Ester Sjöblom tillhörde, som en av få kvinnor, Klaraboheme ...

A masterclass in the manipulation of the English language ‘Poems in Prose’ is a collection of six poems, from the pen of one of the world’s most celebrated writers. Delving into th ...

Better known as the creator of the eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also the author of a number of poems during his literary career. ‘Songs of Action ...

‘Ravenna’ is one of Wilde’s earliest poems, written while he was a student at Oxford in the 1870s. He submitted it as an entry for the Newdigate Prize, in which the subject for a p ...

‘Poems’ was published at Wilde’s expense less than 10 years before he wrote his acclaimed novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ It contains some of his best-loved poetry, including ...

'Poems of 1820' is a great reminder that some achieve greatness at an early age.John Keats was 24 when this collection of poems was published and it is wild, ecstatic, sensuous and ...

While Wharton is best known for her searing autopsies on American aristocracy, ‘Verses’ reveals a more introspective side of the author. This was her first work, published by her p ...