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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tell stories to one another. This new transcription and edition is taken fro ...Show more
The Classic Tradition of Haiku by BOWERS
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Fa ...Show more
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, University of Kent at Canterbury. Housman's melodic and memorable poems have been popular for over a century. He writes typically of lost love, of the brevity of happiness, of young soldiers doomed to die. Admirers have found his work elegant and resonant ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life’s work as a p ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Category: Classic | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhyth ...Show more
The Collected Poems of W B Yeats by W B Yeats
Category: Poetry | Series: Scribner Paperback Poetry
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats by W. B. Yeats
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described ...Show more
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the ...Show more
The Complete Poems of D.H.Lawrence by David Herbert Lawrence
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes t ...Show more
The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Archie Burnett
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in "Collected Poems" (1988), and in the "Early Poems and Juvenilia" (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affecti ...Show more