Poems that make grown men cry
Subtitle: 100 men on the words that move them
By: edited by Anthony and Ben Holden
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster / A CBS Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781471134906; 9781471134913
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Poetry; Collections; Emotions in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s, the majority are public figures not prone to crying. Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. Seventy-five percent of the selected poems were written in the twentieth century, with more than a dozen by women. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. Three men have suffered the pain of losing a child; others are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope's famous phrase, 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd'.
Notes: Includes index.