Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. "The Complete Poems" includes the books "North and South," "A Cold Spring," "Questions of Travel," and "Geography III," as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.

With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror-- and the marrow of the bone of life."
The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and represent work from his entire career, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

T. S. Eliot's most famous drama, a retelling of the murder of the archbishop of CanterburyMurder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot’s first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, depicting the events that led to his assassination, in his own cathedral church, by the knights of Henry II in 1170. Like Greek drama, the play’s theme and form are rooted in religion, ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to the earliest sources of drama that brought poetry triumphantly back to the English stage at the time."The theatre is enriched by this poetic play of grave beauty and momentous decision." —The New York Times 

From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience , poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books , and an index of first lines.

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

A haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.
Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts.
“Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life. （那颗晴空 摘自 亚马逊美国）

★ 畅销70年，一本享誉世界的编剧写作宝典
★ 戛纳电影节最佳编剧奖得主、著名编剧梅峰推荐
★ 美国、英国等多国影视专业院校必读的指定教材
★ 独家收录：十位专业电影人原创万字导读
★ 启示伍迪·艾伦三次摘获奥斯卡原创剧本奖
★ 好莱坞一线编剧人手一本的案头工具书
★ 连年稳居亚马逊剧本写作类专业书籍TOP前10
★ 电影理论家大卫·波德维尔强烈推荐
★ 适用于电影电视、小说、新闻等多领域的文体写作
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【内容简介】
《编剧的艺术》是一本论述编剧方法的名著。首版于20世纪40年代，作者挑战了亚里士多德的“情节首要”观念，提倡将写作的核心聚焦到变化丰富的人物之上。本书对国内外戏剧理论界影响深远，直到现在仍然是编剧们不可或缺的案头工具书。
全书按照戏剧写作的基本要素，分为“前提”“人物”“冲突”与“综述”四大章节。文中首创性地提出了“人物动机推进情节”的写作方法，并指出创作一部成功的剧作需要一个结构明晰的前提，具有生理、社会、心理三维度信息完备的人物，以及升级型冲突与冲突的预示。
书中大量引用《玩偶之家》《罗密欧与朱丽叶》《伪君子》等享誉世界的经典名作，巨细无遗地分析了这些作品的架构、人物的对话与冲突类型，为深度阐述一部剧作的成败提供了详实的例证。文中还加入了多个提问环节，追根溯源地解答了编剧们在写作过程中遇到的疑难。作者文风犀利，一气呵成，虽然全文旁征博引，但简明易懂，是一本具有很高文学价值的剧作论著，其方法也适用于电影电视、小说、新闻等多领域的文体写作。
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【名人推荐】
创作一个剧本，只需综合考虑故事的前提、人物和冲突。《编剧的艺术》从戏剧的基本要素出发，深层剖析了戏剧结构的秘密。既有生动讲解，也有深度问答。是不可多得的剧作练习专业教材，也是一个智者洞见人性的观察总结。
——梅峰，编剧、导演
我始终认为这是所有编剧论著中无可取代的绝世经典！
——伍迪·艾伦，编剧、导演
拉约什·埃格里的《编剧的艺术》在20世纪50年代成为编剧们的随身读物，直到现在也被赞誉为不可或缺的案头指定书目。埃格里要求人物性格在戏剧进程里成长，还讲解了如何围绕这一过程来建构情节。
——大卫·波德维尔，电影学者
每一部电影都是通过角色和故事，来表现互相矛盾的价值观、视角和信仰之间所展开的一场辩论。埃格里先生在《编剧的艺术》一书中对此做出了令人信服的阐述。
——大卫·戴蒙德、大卫·韦斯曼，好莱坞一线编剧搭档、剧本写作顾问
我能说，关于《编剧的艺术》迷人之处在于，读完本书后， 包括我在内的任何人，都会明白为什么有些小说、电影、戏剧、短篇故事会如此无聊，另一些却是那样有趣。
——吉尔伯特·米勒， 美国戏剧家、电影导演、托尼奖得主

Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize

Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."

This special, limited edition celebrates Billy Collins's years as U.S. Poet Laureate. Picnic, Lightning--one of the books that helped establish and secure his reputation and popularity during the 1990s--combines humor and seriousness, wit and sublimity. His poems touch on a wide range of subjects, from jazz to death, from weather to sex, but share common ground where the mind and heart can meet. Whether reading him for the first time or the fiftieth, this collector's edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the poet the New York Times calls simply "the real thing."