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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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This collection of Alexander Pope's poetry showcases his genius and brilliance as a satirist. He delights in portraying the foppishness and absurd ... More

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Title: Songs of Love and Empire.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United ... More

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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"Excerpted from The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer through Frost"--T.p. verso.

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With her knowledge of both classic and contemporary cultures, Paglia sheds illuminating light on the raw power of a wailing pop lyric as easily as ... More

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Catherine Cookson's final published work shows her at her most intimate and inspirational. From the earliest poem, written when she was 19 years old ... More

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While living a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring, Rochester produced comic verse, scurrilous satires, and highly explicit erotica. ... More

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The poems collected in Snow Water find their gravity and centre in Michael Longley's adopted home in west Mayo, but range widely in their attention - ... More

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Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, ... More

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Rudyard Kipling's Just-So Stories are as well loved today as when they were first written. But his poetry also caught the public's imagination and ... More

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From this renowned research-level series, Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual 16 thrusts Yeats's poems back into the circumstances of their creation and ... More

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"Mastery and Escape is the work of a teacher....Brooker's readings delight and instruct". -- Southern Review

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Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or ... More

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Barnes's collection of sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes was published in 1593and was the first of such collections to appear since Sir Philip ... More

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In this strikingly original collection, Leontia Flynn writes about Belfast and the north of Ireland with a precision and tenderness that is ... More

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Edwin Morgans verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh brings an ancient story to life in a supple, vigorous idiom that moves easily ... More

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Many students find poetry hard to handle; for some, this difficulty is almost insurmountable. Compared to other literary forms, poetry is often ... More

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Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids ... More

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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) was known in his lifetime as the Christian Horace. He was one of the most famous Neo-Latin poets of the ... More

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