Metaphysical Poetry by Colin Burrow (Editor), Various, Christopher Ricks (Editor)

Metaphysical Poetry by Colin Burrow (Editor), Various, Christopher Ricks (Editor)A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics. Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious

This translation and commentary of a classical Tantric text sheds light on the practice of Dharana

like eating tteokbokki (a popular Korean street food)

Wang feels the watcher in the shadows growing closer …Sweeping between China past and present

and misfits stretching the limits of the possible

whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents

Twenty years older and a self-made success

She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day

She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer

The Arabian Nights of our day

It is up to you

Deeply frustrated

anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss