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Selected Poems

Jelaluddin Rumi

Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational ve...

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Sappho Sappho

150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in th...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Simon Armitage

A green knight on a green horse rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The...

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Offers us a glimpse into the life and mind of Medieval England. This is a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce.

Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

Combines medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. This title recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists ...

Tain

"The T 'ain B 'o Cuailnge", centre-piece of the 8th century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. This translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manu...

Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare

Part of the "Clothbound Classics" series, this title collects sonnets of Shakespeare's that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruc...

Major Works

Alexander Pope

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's p...

Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

Jonathan Wordsworth

Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Includes poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). This volume offers selections from major poets such as Arnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, an...

Metaphysical Poetry

Includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and J...

Oxford Book of War Poetry

Jon Stallworthy's acclaimed anthology of 250 poems is here reissued to mark the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day on 11 November 2008. The poems chosen span the centuries of human confl...

Imagist Poetry

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets...

Beowulf

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Hean...

Selected Poems

John Keats

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This selection of Keats' poetry contains youthful verse, such as his earli...

Lord Byron - The Major Works

Lord George Gordon Byron

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byro...

Major Works

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A major new edition, freshly edited in many cases from manuscripts, of Shelley's poetry and prose. It contains the longer poems from Queen Mab to The Triumph of Life, including generou...

Major Works

William Wordsworth

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsw...

Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship ...

Selected Poems

W. B. Yeats

Features a selection of the works of W B Yeats, which includes the narrative poem "The Wanderings of Oisin". This title also includes poems in alternative versions; and in many other ca...

Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri

Tales from Ovid

Ted Hughes

Hughes's three contributions to the anthology "After Ovid" an accurate account of the original so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were ...

Nibelungenlied

Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity. Siegfried, prince of the Netherlan...

Orpheus

Don Paterson

Rainer Maria Rilke's '55 Sonnets to Orpheus' remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's translation offers a radiant and at tim...

Selected Poetry

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A verse translation of Goethe's poetry.

Poems

Heinrich Heine

Selected Poems, 1923-58

E. E. Cummings

Selected Poems

Charles Tomlinson

A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.

Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

A collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets, the master of lyrical meditation, first published in 1955, when Stevens was seventy-five. He selected the poems himself fro...

Selected Poems, 1908-59

Ezra Pound

This edition includes a representative group of early shorter poems, much of Pound's major work and a selection from the "Cantos".

Louis Macneice Selected Poems

Louis Macneice

Louis MacNeice's prescription is designed to look ordinary, rather than esoteric. This work states that very little poetry can claim to meet these specifications, stringent in their ver...