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Allen Ginsberg by Mark Ford (Editor); Allen Ginsberg
Category: Education | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
Allen Ginsberg is the author of Howl and other Poems.
Ben Jonson Poems by Ben Jonson
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet from the past
Dylan Thomas: Poems Selected by Derek Mahon by Dylan Thomas
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse S.
In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Derek Mahon selects Dylan Thomas.
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems Selected by John Stammers by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
John Donne: Poems by Paul Muldoon
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul's. His first volume o ...Show more
John Keats by John Keats, Andrew Motion (edited by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three volumes of verse to an unreceptive critical response. But as the nineteenth century wore on Keats's reputation ...Show more
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet S.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Rom ...Show more
Poet To Poet: Tennyson by Mick Imiah
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92) was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. His two volumes of Poems (1842) established him as the leading poet of his generation, and of the Victorian period. He was created Poet Laureate in 1850 and in 1883 accepted a peerage. In T. S ...Show more
Robert Browning by Robert Browning (ed Douglas Dunn)
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past
Sir Walter Ralegh by Ruth Padel
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more
W. B. Yeats selected by Seamus Heaney by W.B. Yeats
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the ...Show more