Poems of Rome [Hardcover]

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by the art and architecture of the Eternal City.

Poems of Romeranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to accompany readers visiting the city--whether in person or in imagination--the book is divided into sections by place. Its pages lead the reader from the Roman Forum to the Colosseum, from the Vatican to the Villa Sciarra, from the Pantheon to the Palatine Hill, all seen through the eyes of poets who have been dazzled by these glorious sites for centuries. The poets range from Horace and Ovid to Pasolini and Pavese, and from Byron and Keats and Rilke to James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Derek Walcott, and Jorie Graham, in a collection of international talent as scintillating as the great city itself.  
Foreword: A Poets’ Roman Baedeker

THE ETERNAL AND FALLEN CITY
Joachim du Bellay,Les Antiquitez de Rome
George Gordon, Lord Byron, fromChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage
Arthur Hugh Clough, fromAmours de voyage
Thomas Hardy, “Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter”
Felicia Hemans, “Roman Girl’s Song”
A. D. Hope, from “A Letter From Rome”
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Rome”
C. Day-Lewis, from “A Letter From Rome”
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Sharon Morris, “The Hunted”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, “The Holiday Over”
Francesco de Quevedo, “Rome Buried In Her Own Ruins”
George Starbuck, “Rome 1965”
Charles Wright, “Roma I”
 
PLACES
Campo de’ Fiori
Moira Egan, “Campo de’ Fiori”
Czeslaw Milosz, &ldquló'