# Books and Libraries

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-scrimgeour/books-and-libraries

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- Authors: [Andrew Scrimgeour](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-scrimgeour)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2021-10-07

## Description

A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their veneration. For Emily Dickinson they are frigates that 'take us Lands away'; for Wordsworth they are 'a substantial world, both pure and good'; Alberto Rios calls them 'the deli offerings of civilization itself'. This affection extends to the hallowed gathering places of the written word: libraries where one can best hear " a choir of authors murmuring inside their books," as Billy Collins has it; bookshops, especially second-hand ones, 'too small for the worlds they hold, where words that sing you to sleep, stories that stalk your dreams, open like windows in a wall' (Gillian Clarke). The poets collected here include Catullus, Horace, T'ao Ch'ien, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ronsard, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Marvell, Blake, Pope and Keats; more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.

## Editions

### Books and Libraries

- Publisher: everyman_s_library
- ISBN: 978-05-9332-019-8
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2021-11-02
- Language: en_US

### Books and Libraries

- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-823-9
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2021-10-07
- Language: en_GB