Poems for the Spirit by Ellis Bell

Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty is a collective book of poems edited by Alan Jacobs and published by Duncan Baird Publishers & Watkins last July:

This is the greatest anthology of spiritual poetry that has ever been collected.

The sheer range of the source material is extraordinary: it spans all ages from the very early mystics over 4,000 years ago right through to the 20th century and includes contributions from every spiritual tradition – from every age.

Through this original and insightful anthology of mystical poems, we gain glimpses of the spiritual path from poets both famous and forgotten. There are poems from the pens of English-language writers as diverse as Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, as well as literary translations of poetic passages from the Rigveda, the Bible, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching; with contributions from legendary writers such as Teresa of Avila, Dante, Rumi, William Blake and Ramana Maharshi. There are 600 poems by more than 250 poets.

One of the poets is Emily Brontë. Two of the poems are hers: The Philosopher and Last Lines.

And still on poetry, we have come across this recent edition of the Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (the original book of poems by the Brontë sisters published by Aylott & Jones in 1846). This seems to be some kind of original reprint, but we are not sure.

Details:

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar (July 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142640686X

Categories: Books, Poetry, Charlotte_Brontë, Emily_Brontë, Anne_Brontë,