Incredible find Wow! is all can say about this book. What the poems show is that even after 5000 years, our passion for romance, our feelings about one another has never changed. If anything, this anthology shows the emotional and spiritual evolution of mankind in a direct and personal way. When I get down on the human race, I read this book and the poems give me hope again. Because the volume is so big, I always find something new.
best world poetry anthology I've seen The breadth of this anthology is amazing. I pull it off the shelf and browse through it at least a few times each week.Probably no book is perfect Just about as close to perfect as is possible, this book has served me as inspiration, source, and example since I bought it new when published. My only complaint has always been that it is so big and heavy! If I had lots of space, it would have its own library table and stay out accessible all the time. (In fact, I might actually just live in a library!) There is such a wide variety on any general subject - despite my propensity for getting "lost" in it - I can always find something perfect for my need of the moment. And usually also a send-off for finding a new need of the next moment. This is a much better solution than searching the internet for a concept on which one wants a quote and getting either thousands of possibilities unranked with regard to personal preference or a few, narrowed down, which don't quite fit the bill. Every poetry lover should own this book. There's always something new and breathtaking, and poetry from many different cultures and times. A refreshing break from just English/American poetry. Seeing all the different works in one volume gives you a delicious sense of the different textures of world poetry, a scintillating tapestry of words, a symphony... I loved it.an awesome accomplishment This is an astonishing volume packed with beautiful poems. I honestly cannot think of a better gift for poetry lovers (or, indeed, plain lovers or anyone else...). Akkadian poetry, Nazim Hikmet, Tagore.... almost every single poet that I love is here. How did the editors manage do it???
