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Wills also examines Chapman's \"fine touch\" in translating \"the warm and human sense of comedy\" in the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oft of one wide expanse had I been told\u003cbr\u003eThat deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;\u003cbr\u003eYet did I never breathe its pure serene\u003cbr\u003eTill I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.\u003cbr\u003e--John Keats\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChapman's Homer\u003c\/i\u003e provided for the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e exactly what the \u003ci\u003eKing James Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (also published in 1611) did for the \u003ci\u003eHebrew Bible\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew Testament\u003c\/i\u003e in English: it offered a stylistically vigorous and morally powerful translation that has influenced generations of subsequent readers, even as new versions have proliferated.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jan M. 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This book is a glorious revelation.--Boston Globe \u003cbr\u003eSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. \u003cbr\u003eAlongside such famous works as \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as \"Goodbye Christ\" that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLANGSTON HUGHES (1901-1967), one of the great poets of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Kansas before moving to Harlem. 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These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh--and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. \u003ci\u003eAnd Still I Rise\u003c\/i\u003e is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It is true poetry she is writing,\" M.F.K. Fisher has observed, \"not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Angelou\u003c\/b\u003e was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. 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