Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisOne of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical fact, the tale seethes with the restless, adventurous spirit of Castille, telling of the Cid's unjust banishment from the court of King Alfonso, his victorious campaigns in Valencia, and the crowning of his daughters as queens of Aragon and Navarre - the high point of his career as a warmonger. An epic that sings of universal human values, this is one of the greatest of all works of Spanish literature.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authori

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Book SynopsisThe Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus'' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men''s perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet''s friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry - its history and social functions, and the craft required for its success. Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature, inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost. The Satires of Persius (AD 34-62) are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries - even the ruling emperor, Nero.

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Book SynopsisLike his college roommate Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as Whalen calls it, continuous nerve movie) of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent American—one who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited Selected Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.

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Book SynopsisRoger McGough is one of Britain''s best loved poets and this collection ''charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet''s winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability'' Independent ----------------------------------''Time has confirmed ... that McGough''s talent was much more substantial than many of his long-forgotten detractors suspected. If he was a pop poet it was not in any ephemeral sense. A shy extrovert ... he has given voice to poetry and found a voice of his own which is humourful, introspective, irreverent, easy on the ear, conversational. It is also memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that?'' Sunday Herald

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Book SynopsisWords of joy, love, devotion and celebrationDeciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your or your loved one''s life can be overwhelming.Poems and Readings for Weddings collects the very best readings by world-renowned poets, bards, playwrights and novelists who have written passionately, thoughtfully and deeply over hundreds of years about love, marriage and commitment.This beautiful collection contains an astonishing range of poems, prose extracts, prayers and songs, all chosen to enhance the occasion, whether they be moving, witty, irreverent, thoughtful or heartfelt.Above all, these words will be recognized as timeless and true.

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Book SynopsisA STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________''Some of the most ethereal verse ever written'' Sunday Telegraph ''A glorious collection of works old and new'' Independent on Sunday ''Truly inexhaustible . . . to be read again and again'' Daily Mail ''A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy'' Guardian ''A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired'' Daily Telegraph Trade ReviewPowerful. A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy * Guardian *Some of the most ethereal verse ever written * Sunday Telegraph *A glorious collection of works old and new * Independent on Sunday *Compendious . . . offers many pleasures * Daily Express *The poems gathered here celebrate our tenuous connection to something timeless and sublime. A truly inexhaustible collection . . . to be read again and again * Daily Mail *Had me entranced * Observer *A wonderful, generous anthology. A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisThe work of 21 poets is represented: including Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas.

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Book SynopsisAn essential new collection of poetry from the First World WarThis indispensable anthology brings together the works of three major poets from the First World War. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a classical music composer and poet who published two volumes of poems, Severn and Somme and War's Embers. Wilfred Owen's (1893- 1918) realistic poetry is remarkable for its details of war and combat. Isaac Rosenberg's (1890-1918) Poems from the Trenches is widely considered one of the finest examples of war poetry from the period. Carefully selected by Jon Stallworthy, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, these poems comprise a landmark publication that reflects the disparate experiences of war through the voices of the soldiers themselves.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics r

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Book Synopsis''I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder''The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with its irreverent, wry, freewheeling verses of young love, petrol-pump attendants, CND leaflets and bus journey capers. Bringing together the hugely influential work of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten - the ''Liverpool Poets'' - this perennially beloved volume is the bestselling poetry anthology of all time. Now, for its fiftieth anniversary, this edition restores the original text of the book as it first appeared in 1967: energetic, raw and a true record of its era.

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Book SynopsisPoetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

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Book SynopsisThe Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland''s complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe''s oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.Trade Review'This is the best available single-volume collection of Irish poetry yet published.' -- Nick Laird * Guardian *'...excellently edited, exceedingly confident, historically revealing and frequently surprising. The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry is a feat. It is the largest anthology of Irish verse yet spanning 1,500 years - and is more comprehensive than predecessors in its inclusion of a large quantity of pre-Yeats material and translations from languages other than Irish and Old English. A third of the 200+ translations are being published for the first time. It is, as Seamus Heaney says in the preface, the most confident anthology of the country's verse ... Patrick Crotty, the editor and a professor of Irish literature at Aberdeen University, should be congratulated for the precise, considerate and independent thinking he has brought to his selections." * Irish Times *This is a magnificent anthology...The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry is so rich in its inclusions, so superbly organised, showing such breadth of scholarship and (in general) felicity of judgement...applause for a great achievement... -- Patricia Craig * Independent *'The great length of the anthology allows brave decisions...the discrimination, imagination, deftness and heft of the whole is masterful. Much more than an anthology, this is an alternative history of Ireland, in poems that burn into the mind - the newly minted no less than the canonical.' -- Roy Foster * Financial Times *Heaney occupies his rightful place in the year's stand-out anthology: The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, edited by Patrick Crotty. From bards of the eighth century to Nick Laird (born in 1975), with ample space for translations from the Irish (over many centuries), for ballads and songs and rhymes, this sumptuous 1000-page gathering will last many winters out. -- Boyd Tonkin * Books of the Year, The Independent *Patrick Crotty's Penguin Book of Irish Poetry threw a capacious net over many centuries, including a rich haul of wonderful new translations from the Irish, many by himself (as well as Heaney and others). -- Roy Foster * TLS Books of the Year Recommendation *

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Book SynopsisLaura Barber is not a poet, but she has spent the last few years completely immersed in verse. As the editor of Penguin's Poems for Life and Poems for Love, she has lived, breathed and dreamed poetry - in libraries and on lawns, on beaches and in bed - and can testify to the profound effect that poetry can have on your life. More prosaically, she also publishes contemporary literature and is writing a book. She lives in London.

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Book SynopsisAn eclectic and seminal collection of poetry from the Tudor period  Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England and inspired many major Elizabethan writers, including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy—verses of friendship, war, politics, death, and love—into common readership for the first time. The major poets of King Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt’s intimate poem about lost love that begins, They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, and Surrey's passionate sonnet Complaint of a lover rebuked are joined here by a range of intriguingly anonymous poems from the Tudor era that are both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Book SynopsisThe Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry ''etherialized sensation'' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl''art pour l''art - art for art''s sake. Where Victorian realist novels explored the grit and grime of the Industrial Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of romantic love, artistic inspiration and sexuality. Later they attracted Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest Dowson, not to mention Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats.

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Book SynopsisIntroduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet''s Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right.Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, and our land. Under the headings of six varieties of British landscape - London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea - he has collected poems that evoke qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series, while also supplementing the poems included in the programme with his own personal favourites.

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Book SynopsisAn enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina MashinskiIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a more magical view of the world. During the Soviet era, poetry became a dangerous, subversive activity; nevertheless, poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the censors. This anthology traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert CTrade ReviewIt is marvellous -- George Szirtes * New Statesman *This extraordinary anthology has no precedent or peer ... Finally, a comprehensive collection of fine, often extraordinarily fine, translations, with accurate and acute background and critical information ... Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk are not just the editors, they are the chief translators, outstanding in their unerring feel for the sense of the original and ways in which the English language can match it ... This book provides a much-needed entry into Russian poetry -- Professor Donald Rayfield * PN Review *This anthology is ambitious - in scope, biographical apparatus and in what it expects of its translators [...] As you read through the names which, great and small, form the 20th century's poetic roll of honour, the introductory biographies (excellent throughout) strike repeatedly gloomy notes of censorship, banishment and worse. Times have changed: the uncensored individual voice has lost authority, and the children of the new Russia have yet to be heard. Anthologies such as this should remind them why their country's poetry once so greatly mattered * Observer *A new poetic world ... The editors have used this anthology to open up exciting new horizons. Russian literature, after Stalin, suddenly looks very different. Surely that is what anthologies are for * Standpoint *A stunning anthology. It is a treasure house of poetic riches and a monument to the lives of those who created them -- David Cooke * London Grip *Russia's proud poetic heritage is revived brilliantly in English in this new anthology from Penguin Classics * RTÉ Ten *This is a lively collection complete with informative pen portraits ... It embraces the sweep of modern Russian history, including the now somewhat neglected Soviet period, imparting something of the profundity, humanity and suffering of that experience, whilst remaining upbeat and amusing, in the best traditions of Russian art * The Spokesman *It is tempting to describe this book as encyclopaedic. In as much as it opens only in about 1780 and is able tocover only a very limited amount of the work of a finite number of poets, of course it is not. But the great quantity and range of material that is included, plus the wonderfully informative Introduction, Bibliography and Notes that we have come to expect of any work in which Robert Chandler has had a hand, do indeed take it a long way towards qualifying for that descriptor -- Andrew Sheppard * East-West Review *The glory of Russian literature is its poetic tradition, and it remains little known in the English-speaking world. This ample anthology, a labour of love on the part of its three editors, seeks to rectify that situation ... The ultimate goal of any translation is to inspire. The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry closes with four wonderful English poems by non-Russians (one by Chandler himself), and if immersion in this volume contributes to further creativity of this sort, it will have justified its place on our bookshelves. * TLS *The appearance of this anthology is a major advance in the appreciation of Russian poetry in the West ... the breadth of coverage is outstanding * Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies *This new anthology is a major and surely lasting achievement that will represent Russian poetry memorably to a new generation of anglophone readers * Translation and Literature *A lucky find for Slavic scholars, English-speaking Russophiles, and poetry lovers of many stripes ... Even if Russia cannot fully be understood, its poetry, at least, is something to be believed in * Russian Life *What the three editors have set out to give us is not literary history, but the experience of Russian poetry as a living organism in English ... A lively collection that will be a standard work for years to come * Australian Book Review *A Keatsian thing of beauty and a joy forever. It is a book that enables us to meet long-dead poets as we read their work ... and an ambitious search for the elusive Russian soul -- Phoebe Taplin * American Book Review *This book will create many new readers of Russian poetry. The editors' presentation is authoritative and expansive ... Special appeal, though, lies in gorgeous translations that read as stand-alone poems * Slavic Review *The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry ... dramatically changed the shape of Russian poetry. As you read on, the landscape becomes stranger and more unfamiliar, especially as you come to the late twentieth century. Almost 150 pages of post-war poetry, nearly thirty poets, most of them unfamiliar to many English­speaking readers. New names. A new poetic world. Our sense of Russian literature has changed dramatically in recent years -- David Herman

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Book Synopsis''So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We''re sure it won''t be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us'' (from the Introduction)In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or another, a powerful timelessness: words with the thrilling capacity to make the time and place in which they were written, however distant and however foreign they may be, feel utterly here and now in the 21st Century.This book is the condensed result of that search. It stretches as far back as Sappho and as far forward as the recent award-winning work of Denise Riley, taking in poets as varied as Thomas Wyatt, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Frank O''Hara, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Br

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Book SynopsisPart of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien''s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings''I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would be the giant-race, if they all lived: mankind would be nothing under, middle-earth. What did you do meantime, Grey-beard?''J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales.Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behi

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Book SynopsisOther Ways to Leave the Room features the work of three of the most beloved and lauded poets currently at large. Between them, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Nick Laird write lyrical, luminous and often darkly witty poems about the rugged wildness of the Scottish landscape; about fatherhood; about whisky-drinking, alcohol abuse and tenement life; about sex, love and the pursuit of the spiritual; about childhood in the Ireland of the Troubles, and about the strange possibilities of the technological future. What all three have in common is an ability to combine observations of gritty real life with a sense of the mythical proportions always lurking just under the surface of the everyday.The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A pretty dandy candy jar. The range of poets is wide, the tone is unpretentious, and the poems are all . . . good." (San Francisco Chronicle)"These are poems to live in comfort with all one's life." (Booklist)"[Keillor is] Will Rogers with grammar lessons, Aesop with no ax to grind, the common man's MoliFre." (The Houston Chronicle)Table of ContentsGood PoemsIntroduction1. O LordPoem in Thanks—Thomas LuxHow Many Nights—Galway KinnelWelcome Morning—Anne SextonPsalm 23—from The Bay Psalm BookAt Least—Raymond CarverAddress to the Lord—John BerrymanO Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie—Philip ApplemanPsalm—Reed WhittemorePsalm 121—Michael WigglesworthWhen one has lived a long time alone—Galway KinnellHome on the Range—AnonymousWhat I Want Is—C. G. Hanzlicek2. A DaySummer Morning—Charles SimicOtherwise—Jane KenyonPoem About Morning—William MeredithLiving—Denise LevertovAnother Spring—Kenneth RexrothMorning Person—Vassar MillerRoutine—Arthur GuitermanThe Life of a Day—Tom HennenFor My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old—Robert BlyI've known a Heaven, like a Tent—Emily DickinsonLetter to N.Y.—Elizabeth BishopDilemna—David Budbillfrom Song of Myself—Walt WhitmanNew Yorkers—Edward FieldSoaking Up Sun—Tom HennenLate Hours—Lisel Mueller3. MusicScrambled Eggs and Whiskey—Hayden CarruthMehitabel's Song—Don MarquisNightclub—Billy CollinsAlley Violinist—Robert LaxCradle Song—Jim SchleyHer Door—Mary LeaderThe Pupil—Donald JusticePiano—D. H. LawrenceInsrument of Choice—Robert PhillipsHomage: Doo-Wop—Joseph StroudThe Persistence of Song—Howard MossOoly Pop a Cow—David HuddleElevator Music—Henry TaylorThe Grain of Sound—Robert MorganI Will Make You Brooches—Robert Louis StevensonThe Dance—C. K. WilliamsThe Investment—Robert FrostThe Dumka—B. H. FairchildThe Green Street Mortuary Marching Band—Lawrence Ferlinghetti4. ScenesPoem to Be Read at 3 A.M.—Donald JusticeThe Swimming Pool—Thomas LuxDostoevsky—Charles BukowskiAfter a Movie—Henry TaylorSummer Storm—Dana GioiaWoolworth's—Mark IrwinWorked Late on a Tuesday Night—Deborah GarrisonThe Farmhouse—Reed Whittemorewrist-wrestling father—Orval LundYorkshiremen in Pub Gardens—Gavin EwartNoah—Roy Daniells5. LoversA Red, Red Rose—Robert BurnsWhen I Heard at the Close of Day—Walt WhitmanFirst Love—John ClareHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven—W. B. YeatsSonnet—C. B. TrailPolitics—W. B. YeatsMagellan Street, 1974—Maxine KuminAnimals—Frank O'HaraLending Out Books—Hal SirowitzThe Changed Man—Robert PhillipsThe Constant North—J. F. HendryOn the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love—Jennifer Michael HechtThe Loft—Richard JonesThis Is Just to Say—William Carlos WilliamsThis Is Just to Say—Erica-Lynn GambinoVenetian Air—Thomas MooreSummer Morning—Louis SimpsonComin thro' the Rye—Robert BurnsTopograhy—Sharon OldsSaturday Morning—Hugo WilliamsFlight—Louis JenkinsAt Twenty-Three Weeks She Can No Longer See Anything South of Her Belly—Thom WardFor the Life of Him and Her—Reed WhittemoreRomantics—Lisel MuellerDown in the Valley—AnonymousThe Middle Years—Walter McDonaldWinter Winds Cold and Blea...—John Claresince feeling is first—e. e. cummingsVergissmeinnicht—Keith DouglasSonnet XLIII What lips my lips have kissed—Edna St. Vincent MillayAfter the Argument—Stephen DunnThe Orange—Wendy CopeSusquehanna—Liz RosenbergFarm Wife—R. S. ThomasAfter Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish—Leo DangelThose Who Love—Sara TeasdaleQuietly—Kenneth RexrothFor C.W.B.—Elizabeth BishopShorelines—Howard MossPrayer for a Marriage—Steve ScafidiThe Master Speed—Robert FrostBonnard's Nudes—Raymond Carver6. Day's WorkHappiness—Raymond CarverHoeing—John UpdikeSome Details of Hebridean House Construction—Thomas A. ClarkRelations—Philip BoothWhat I Learned from My Mother—Julia KasdorfTo be of use—Marge PiercyNo Tool or Rope or Pail—Bob ArnoldOx Cart Man—Donald HallGirl on a Tractor—Joyce SutphenSoybeans—Thomas Alan OrrLanding Pattern—Philip ApplemanMae West—Edward FieldHay for the Horses—Gary Snyder7. Sons and DaughtersMasterworks of Ming—Kay RyanBess—Linda PastanA Little Tooth—Thomas LuxSonnet XXXVII—William ShakespeareEgg—C. G. HanzlicekRolls-Royce Dreams—Ginger AndrewsMy Life Before I Knew It—Lawrence RaabAfter Work—Richard JonesI Stop Writing the Poem—Tess GallagherFranklin Hyde—Hilaire BellocManners—Elizabeth BishopSeptember, the First Day of School—Howard NemerovFirst Lesson—Philip BoothChildhood—Barbara RasWaving Good-Bye—Gerald SternFamily Reunion—Maxine Kumin8. LanguageA Primer of the Daily Round—Howard NemerovThe Possessive Case—Lisel MuellerThe Icelandic Language—Bill HolmThe Fantastic Names of Jazz—Hayden CarruthOde to the Medieval Poets—W. H. AudenSweater Weather—Sharon Bryan9. A Good LifeWe grow accustomed to the Dark—Emily DickinsonA Ritual to Read to Each Other—William StaffordCourage—Anne SextonSometimes—Sheenagh PughLeisure—W. H. Daviesthe way it is now—Charles BukowskiA Secret Life—Stephen DunnLost—David WagonerSonnet XXV—William ShakespeareThe Eel in the Cave—Robert BlyWild Geese—Mary OliverFrom the Manifesto of the Selfish—Stephen DunnHope—Lisel MuellerThe Three Goals—David BudbillVermeer—Howard NemerovRepression—C. K. WilliamsWeather—Linda PastanModeration Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony—John TagliabueTell all the Truth but tell it slant—Emily DickinsonThe Props assist the House...—Emily Dickinson10. BeastsLittle Citizen, Little Survivor—Hayden CarruthHer First Calf—Wendell BerryBats—Randall JarrellRiding Lesson—Henry TaylorWalking the Dog—Howard NemerovThe Excrement Poem—Maxine KuminStanza IV from Coming of Age—Ursula LeguinDestruction—Joanne KygerHow to See Deer—Philip BoothDog's Death—John UpdikeNames of Horses—Donald HallBison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore—May Swenson11. FailureSuccess is counted sweetest...—Emily DickinsonSolitude—Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe first time I remember—Wendell BerryOur Lady of the Snows—Robert HassThe British Museum Reading Room—Louis MacNeiceThe Bare Arms of Trees—John TagliabueThe Sailor—Geof HewittA Place for Everything—Louis JenkinsThe Feast—Robert HassNobody Knows You—Jimmie Coxthe last song—Charles Bukowski12. ComplaintThe Forsaken Wife—Elizabeth ThomasConfession—Stephen DobynsLiving in the Body—Joyce SutphenTired As I Can Be—Bessie JacksonThe Iceberg Theory—Gerald LocklinManifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front—Wendell BerryA Bookmark—Tom Dischpoetry readings—Charles BukowskiPublication—is the Auction...—Emily Dickinson13. TripsOnce in the 40s—William Staffordlines from Moby Dick—Herman MelvilleRain Travel—W. S. Merwinwhere we are—Gerald LocklinExcelsior—Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOn a Tree Fallen Across the Road—Robert FrostA Walk Along the Old Tracks—Robert KinsleyPassengers—Billy CollinsThe Walloping Window-Blind—Charles Edward CarrylThe Vacation—Wendell BerryDirections—Joseph StroudPostscript—Seamus HeaneyNight Journey—Theodore RoethkeWaiting—Raymond Carver14. SnowNew Hampshire—Howard MossTo fight aloud...—Emily DickinsonDecember Moon—May SartonYear's End— Richard WilburThe Snow Man—Wallace StevensJanuary—Baron Wormserin celebration of surviving—Chuck MillerHer Long Illness—Donal HallRequiescat—Oscar WildeThe Sixth of January—David BudbillNot Only the Eskimos—Lisel MuellerBoy at the Window—Richard WilburWinter Poem—Frederick MorganLester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow—Paul ZimmerOld Boards—Robert BlyMarch Blizzard—John Tagliabue15. YellowElvis Kissed Me—T. S. KerriganStepping Out of Poetry—Gerald SternI shall keep singing!—Emily DickinsonSong to Onions—Roy Blount, Jr.O Luxury—Guy W. LongchampsComing—Kenneth RexrothA Light Left On—May SartonThe Yellow Slicker—Stuart DischellFirst Kiss—April LindnerThe Music One Looks Back On—Stephen Dobyns16. LivesIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day—X. J. KennedyWho's Who—W. H. AudenThe Portrait—Stanley KunitzParable of the Four-Poster—Erica JongEd—Louis SimpsonMemory—Hayden CarruthLazy—David LeeTestimonial—Harry Newman, Jr.Cathedral Builders—John OrmondThe Village Burglar—AnonymousThe Scandal—Robert BlyAt Last the Secret Is Out—W. H. AudenNight Light—Kate BarnesSir Patrick Spens—Anonymous17. EldersI Go Back to May 1937—Sharon OldsThose Winter Sundays—Robert HaydenThe Old Liberators—Robert HedinTo My Mother—Wendell BerryWorking in the Rain—Robert MorganBirthday Card to My Mother—Philip ApplemanYesterday—W. S. MerwinNo Map—Stephen DobynsMy Mother—Robert MezeyWhen My Dead Father Called—Robert BlyAugust Third—May SartonTerminus—Ralph Waldo Emerson18. The EndAuthorship—James B(al) NaylorYoung and Old—Charles KingsleyShifting the Sun—Diana Der-HovanessianMy Dad's Wallet—Raymond CarverWhen I Am Asked—Lisel MuellerDirge Without Music—Edna St. Vicent MillayMy mother said...—Donald HallDepartures—Linda PastanAs Befits a Man—Langston HughesSunt Leones—Stevie SmithPerfection Wasted—John UpdikeEleanor's Letters—Donald HallDeath and the Turtle—May SartonFour Poems in One—Anne PorterTitanic—David R. SlavittThe Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna—Charles WolfeKaddish—David IgnatowTwilight: After Haying—Jane KenyonFor the Anniversary of My Death—W. S. Merwinfrom The Old Italians Dying—Lawrence FerlinghettiStreet Ballad—George BarkerLet Evening Come—Jane Kenyon19. The ResurrectionForty-Five—Hayden CarruthA Blessing—James WrightHoly Thursday—William Blakelines from Walden—Henry David ThoreauThe Peace of Wild Things—Wendell BerryFrom Blossoms—Li-Young LeeThe First Green of Spring—David BudhillHere—Grace PaleyThe Lives of the Heart—Jane HirshfieldSpring—Gerard Manley HopkinsFishing in the Keep of Silence—Linda GreggBiographiesName IndexTitle Index

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Book SynopsisThe book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. - The Christian Science MonitorHere, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as Such As It Is More or Less and Let It Spill. From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry.

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis.A Penguin ClassicThe Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society's social extremes--many were princesses, some were entertainers, but many were wives and daughters who wrote simply for their own entertainment, and they were active in many different countries - Iran, India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. From Rabe'eh in the tenth century to FTrade ReviewIn every respect, The Mirror of My Heart is outstanding. Reading it one discovers a whole tradition of love poetry, epigram and elegy, movingly brought into English. Most important now, this anthology reminds us how much we all share the same joys, the same sorrows -- Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *

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Book SynopsisThe first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithA Penguin ClassicJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradTrade Review“You feel you’re meeting them on a human level. The book is slim and portable, as the best poetry books are (…) Bennett and McCarthy, in their introduction, set out their criteria for inclusion in ‘Minor Notes.’ They list things like ‘minimal appearance’ in anthologies and ‘very little, if anything, in the way of secondary literature focusing on their work.’ But it becomes plain that they chose these poets because they still speak across generations. This is a passion project.(…) This is a reclamation project that goes through you like a spear.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy, both scholars of African American literature, aim to widen the canon of Black poetry by spotlighting poets who have been overlooked (…) giving readers an understanding of their unique voice and poetic concerns. (…) David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Anne Spencer, and other poets interrogate everything from labor politics to friendship in finely wrought lyrics that delight and surprise, prompting the reader to wonder how these geniuses could have been sidelined for so long.” —Poets & Writers“The first in a series recovering the out-of-print words of Black poets whose work shaped the 19th and 20th centuries, Minor Notes, Volume 1 draws a bright line between the creations of the past and those of today’s bards. Curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy, while featuring a foreword from former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, the book centers clear, resonant voices—like that of Angelina Weld Grimké’s, who ruminates joyfully on the beauty of living in a Black body.”—Essence

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Book SynopsisDuring the 18th century, there was a great proliferation of poetry published by women. Most of their work has since fallen into obscurity and their place in literary history has gone largely unnoticed. This anthology contains work by more than one hundred poets, from various strata in society.Trade Reviewa delight to read, an almost entirely unfamiliar collection of poems, commenting on a wide range of human feelings and experience with outstanding wit, humour and honesty * Julia Briggs, The Times *Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us. * Claire Tomalin, Independent *Table of ContentsIntroduction; The poems (too many authors to list); Sources and notes; Index of titles and first lines; Index of authors; Index of selected topics

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Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical,archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con.

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Book SynopsisAn anthology featuring 130 poets from ten countries and translated from fifteen languages, including Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, and Yiddish. Translated by ninety translators it focuses on poetry from the 1960s and 70s.Trade Review"Extremely useful and timely edition."--Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo "A nice anthology with a wonderful selection of poets."--Lily Phillips, Duke University "Very timely and worthwhile!"--John Felstiner, Stanford University "This is a valuable compilation, especially for the up date section, and should be of compelling interest to any course on poetry, or in courses on Comparative Literature, European Studies, Humanities, etc., in which all readings are in English. . . . This anthology opens a world unknown to most of us, but well worth looking into, for reasons both literary and cultural."--Murray Sachs, Brandeis University "An indispensable text for students in translation and creative writing programs; offers a unique and inviting introduction to the poetry of the region."--Seymour Mayne, University of Ottawa "A praiseworthy attempt to mount a travelling exhibition of East European Poetry....This anthology offers exciting glimpses of poetic worlds still to be fully mapped."--The Times Literary Supplement "Though a very few East European poets, like Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert of Poland, hjave come to international attention, even the most proficient and prolific have reputations largely restricted, by language as much as politics, to their own countries. All the more welcome, then, is this very large representation of 130 poets from 10 Eastern bloc countries writing in 15 languages....In making this fresh compilation, Professor George has been aided by several expert consultants, and the validity of the translations is confirmed by the many very distinguished names among the 90 who rendered these diverse tongues into English."--Booklist "This ambitious anthology has long been overdue....Emery George and all the contributors to this anthology are to be congratulated for an excellent introduction to Slavic and East European poetry. Here is a work that can be used in poetry and translating courses and, at the same time, can stand as a mini-reference to non-Western poets."--World Literature Today "A good anthology, rich in the range off reading experience, attractive in the warm understanding of the editors who chose the pieces and certainly unique as a store of knowledge about East European poetry."--Journal of Baltic Studies "Wow! This is just what I want. It picks up where Postwar Polish Poetry and other anthologies stop."--Sam Garner, North Carolina A&T State University "A must for everybody interested in European literature."--Peter Steiner, University of Pennsylvania "A high-quality collection of poetry in translation. The poetry in this collection succeeds wonderfully in giving Western readers a sense of the variety of East European poetry, but just as important, a sense of the profound difference in voice and vision between East European poetry and its Western counterpart."--Thomas C. Carlson, The Commercial Appeal

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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Renowned authors such as James Agee, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Flannery O''Connor appear in these pages, but so do people whose writing did not immediately reach a large audience. For example, Harriet A. Jacobs'' book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is now recognized as one of the most illuminating narratives of a former slave, was neglected for generations. And Sarah Morgan''s powerful Civil War Diary has only recently come to widespread attention. The Oxford Book of the American South presents compelling autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and journalism as well as stories and selections from novels, and runs the spectrum from the conservative to tTrade Reviewwise and comprehensive volume of Southern writing ... * The Observer, 10 August 1997 *an anthology with a clear purpose and a coherent pattern evident through its 600 well-balanced pages. * The Independent Weekend section, 2 August 1997 *

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Book SynopsisThis book presents new English translations of 150 erotic poems composed in India''s three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit. The poems are derived from large anthological collections that date from as early as the first centruy CE to as late as the eight century. In Martha Selby''s masterful translations, the poems both stand on their own as poems in English and maintain the flavours of the original verses as reflected in idiom and structure. The poems are grouped according to themes, and annotated whenever a brief gloss is necessary. The book begins with several scholarly essays on the poems and how to read them, their origin, and the languages in which they were composed. This is followed by the poems themselves.Trade ReviewThe translations leap from the eye to the ear, viscerally vernacular, as if newly thought in English. The notes make the most arcane problems vividly clear. And the introductory essays, not just about poetry but about sex, women, love, and gender, are in themselves a major contribution to the study of all of these subjects. A pleasure for anyone to read, and a real eye-opener for anyone who claims to know the culture of ancient India, as well as for those who do not. * Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago *Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION ; 7. YOUNG WOMEN SPEAK TO THEIR FEMALE FRIENDS

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Book SynopsisThe Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each followed by commentary that explains its cultural context.Table of ContentsIntroduction Wine Women Death Afterword Notes For Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the tenth century to the thirteenth, the Jews of Spain belonged to a vibrant and relatively tolerant Arabic-speaking society, a sophisticated culture that had a marked effect on Jewish life, thought, artistic tastes, and literary expression. In this companion volume to Wine, Women, and Death, we see how the surrounding Arabic culture influenced the new poetry that was being written for the synagogue service. The Hebrew poems here, accompanied by elegant English translations and explanatory essays, are short lyrics of the highest literary quality.Table of ContentsIntroduction God and Israel God and the Soul Afterword Notes Technical Terms Index

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Book SynopsisMore than perhaps any other folkloric tradition, whether oral or written, the myths of classical Greece and Rome have survived and pervaded the consciousness of lands far-flung from their source. The mythic world of the ancients, peopled by glamorous gods and unstoppable heroes, in which the mortal and immortal commingled, is even now a living presence in 21st century culture, rather than a literary relic. Whether we know them by their Roman or their Greek names - Artemis or Minerva, Poseidon or Neptune - the figures of these ancietn myths captured the imagination of culture after culture across the globe, inspiring writers, artists, musicians and those of us who comprise the audience for their works. Can it be a coincidence that the greatest poets of the western world have each at one point tried their hand at retellings?Kossman''s anthology assembles some of the best of these poems inspired by ancient myths, organizing them by themse, and allowing the reader to compare one against thTrade Review"Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new,' in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative gathering of memorable work."--Joyce Carol Oates "This is an appealing collection for students of poetry and myth, and a must for anyone who teaches a course dealing with classical myth."--Choice "Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new,' in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative gathering of memorable work."--Joyce Carol Oates "An appealing collection for students of poetry and myth, and a must for anyone who teaches a course dealing with classical myth." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Titans ; Zeus ; Demeter ; Apollo ; Aphrodite ; Other Olympians ; Lesser Immortals and Near-Immortals ; The Way to the Underworld ; Lovers ; Transformations ; Trespassers ; The Condemned ; Heroes ; Crete ; Thebes ; After Troy ; The Wanderings and the Homecoming of Odysseus ; Index of Poets ; Glossary ; Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a wholly new edition of five of the most brilliant and celebrated poems of the Poetic Edda: ''The Sibyl''s Prophecy'', ''The Rigmarole of Rigr'', ''Wayland''s Poem'', ''Skirnir''s Lay'', and ''Loki''s Quarrel''. New textual readings and interpretations are established. New light is shed on the Franks Casket and on King Alfred''s interest in Wayland; new links are found between the Viking and Christian worlds. A close translation accompanies the text to give the non-specialist reader a transparent and rhythmic sense of the original. For each poem the sequence of ideas is traced in the introduction and the interpretation substantiated by a detailed commentary. Much consideration is given to the themes of the poems and the ancient ideas in which they are rooted: analogues come from many sources - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Sanskrit, African, and Finnish. The excellence and variety of the poems give a rare insight into the genius of oral poets of the Viking age.Trade ReviewHer textual analysis is ... excellent and challenging, and her notes on the manuscript tradition illuminating her comments are instructive ... the work is a remarkable achievement, throwing new light on the background and composition of the texts examined: the comments are most instructive, and the discussions open new perspectives. An outstanding book, henceforth indispensable for all students of the Poetic Edda. * Dr Edgar Polome, The Journal of Indo-European Studies *For lovers of the Poetic Edda, this volume will be a prized possession, enabling scholars and amateur enthusiasts alike to enter with ease into the daunting world of mythological poems... this is an edition of great power and potential influence... from now on it is likely that most English-speaking readers of the Poetic Edda will wish to take Edda II for their authoritative of Voluspa and the other poems. * Richard North, Saga-Book *Table of Contents[ALL FIVE POEMS DIVIDED INTO CONTENTS, TEXT AND TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY ON THE TEXT; VOLUSPA ALSO FEATURING AN APPENDIX: BALDRS DRAUMAR TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY; VOLUNDARKVIDA ALSO FEATURING AN INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES]

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Book SynopsisA revised and updated edition of the second volume of a work that contains all that survives and has been published of the early Greek Iambic poets. Many papyri and other manuscript sources have been re-examined, and advantage has been taken of authors who preserve fragments in quotation.

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Book SynopsisThe Homeric Hymn to DemeterTrade ReviewOffers an incomparable approach to understanding archaic Greek poetry and religion....Richardson shows a good knowledge of the archeological and artistic evidence and a sure control of the relevant comparative material both from Greece and the Near East. The result is the best presentation of the Eleusinian cult available...this book is a treasure, well worth its cost. * Athenaeum *

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Book Synopsis''What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?''The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. In addition, Tim Kendall''s introduction charts the history of the war poets'' reception and challenges prevailing myths about their progress from idealism to bitterness. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review[It] will provide the best critical introduction to [the war poets'] body of work as its authority and accuracy supplants previous anthologies. * Agenda *extraordinary in scope ... an anthology to keep and treasure. Strongly Recommended for any secondary school or college library. * Martin Axford, The School Librarian *Of all the (many) books I've read over the years about the war poets and the poetry of war, I think this one comes the closest to capturing the breadth and depth of that extraordinary burst of creative engendered by The War to End All Wars. * Moira Briggs, Vulpes Libris *Kendall's judicious selections, and his concise and useful introductions to each of the chosen poets, suggest that his anthology will become a standard work. * Sean O'Brien, Times Literary Supplement *Oxford World's Classics' beautifully produced Poetry of the First World War is one of the most important and far-reaching anthologies to have been published in this, World War One's centenary year. * Kirsty Hewitt, Book Hugger *a thought provoking and moving collection * Sallie Eden, Roseland Online *Table of ContentsThomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; A. E. Housman (1859-1936) ; May Sinclair (1863-1946) ; W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) ; Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) ; Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) ; Robert Service (1874-1958) ; Edward Thomas (1878-1917) ; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962) ; Mary Borden (1886-1968) ; Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) ; Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) ; Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) ; T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888-1918) ; Patrick Shaw Stewart (1888-1917) ; Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) ; Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) ; Arthur Graeme West (1891-1917) ; Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) ; Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980) ; May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) ; Charles Sorley (1895-1915) ; Robert Graves (1895-1985) ; David Jones (1895-1974) ; Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) ; Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) ; Music Hall and Trench Songs

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Book SynopsisThere can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy''s classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer''s Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additional poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Trade ReviewThis anthology is exemplary ... poetry is celebrated in its ability to explore the subject of war in all its ramifications. [It] is certainly the best of its kind. * Ian Gregson, History Today *a very worthwhile collection * George Simmers, Great War Fiction *

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Book SynopsisThere can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy''s classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer''s Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Review from previous edition quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse I know. Homer, Byron, Macauley, Hardy - and more recently, Keyes, Reed, Lewis, Douglas and Prince - they're all here, plus an excellent brief essay of introduction. * Times Educational Supplement *a marvellous collection of old favourites and many surprises. * The Star *This collection is of exceptionally high quality. * Washington Post *full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises. * Vernon Scannell, The Guardian *This is an anthology that works in a way that the work of no single poet could. * The Observer *

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Book SynopsisBeowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary for its detailed study at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.To facilitate understanding and fluent reading of the poem, the Old English text of Beowulf is here accompanied by an extensive running glossary which includes the greater part of the vocabulary of the poem. Words that occur more than once are glossed on each occasion. The inclusion of marginal glosses will enable readers who may be at an early stage in the study of Old English to cope more easily with the complex vocabulary of the poem. But this edition is not meant only for those who are approaching Old English for the first time; it is designed to be suitable for students at any stage, and those who are already familiar with Old English will find the marginal glossesTrade Review`This will surely be the standard edition of Beowulf' Dr Margaret Connolly, University College, Cork`very student user-friendly' Dr J. A. George, Uninversity of Dundee`it will be most useful and exactly the kind of student edition that has long been needed' Dr William Marx, University of Wales, Lampeter`This up-to-date edition it a godsend.' Peter J. Lucas, University College, DublinWe have long been waiting for it.' Professor Dr Heinz Bergner, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessenpresents its familiar material in a conspicuously rejuvenated way...This edition follows a current trend towards providing most of the material necessary for the study of a major work within a single volume...The introduction has detailed and authoritative discussions of all the major aspects of the poem, apart from general critical interpretation, for which the reader is referred to items in the extensive bibliography. * English *This fully annotated edition makes the poem Beowulf more accessible in its original language, and provides the materials necessary for its detailed study by those new to Old English. * The Medieval World *Students working through Beowulf in the original language for the first time ... may find themselves grateful for this compact, efficient, and inexpensive introduction to the poem. Every part of Jack's text is presented with meticulous accuracy - a welcome virtue in publications of this kind. References are brief but apt, expert, and up-to-date. * John D. Niles, University of California, Berkeley, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan 1997 *

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Book SynopsisThe Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and the general business of wartime. This anthology seeks to showcase not only the harrowingly beautiful poetry born from the conflict, but also the radical changes to style and form that came from the epoch and altered the face of British poetry. Featuring generous selections of famous poets, including Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden, alongside works by civilians and soldiers, the collection offers a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. Tim Kendall''s introduction charts the history of the war poets'' reception, explaining their relationship with their First World War predecessors and some of the reasons why they have never managed to reach such a wide audience. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account which allows poems to be read in their historical context, and every poem is annotated with date of composition, publication history, and a gloss of words and allusions.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and other major writers of the period alongside lesser known or even entirely forgotten figures. A significant number of important long poems are given in full, and many of the shorter works feature for the first time in a modern edition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Note on the Texts Select Bibliography Chronology Poems List of Poets Explanatory notes

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Book SynopsisThis unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. Modern translations are printed opposite the original French verse, and the edition also contains over a thousand lines of poetry never previously translated into English.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CHRONOLOGIES; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; EXPLANATORY NOTES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisChristopher Ricks's celebrated anthology prsents a wonderfully varied collection of Victorian poetry, with 560 poems by 115 authors. With most poems given in their entirety, this is a lively and exciting anthology of Victorian verse selected by an expert in the field.Trade ReviewChristopher Rick's anthology succeeds triumphantly. * The Observer *(Christopher Ricks) has done for Victorian poetry what Sir John Betjeman did for Victorian architecture. He has made it live again. * The Times *A formidable volume. * Irish Times *A masterly survey of a gigantic age, this anthology is indispensable. * Oxford Times *

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Book SynopsisInternationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolife poet in Renaissance Florence. This anthology gathers her most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, to provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.

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Book SynopsisFeatures a kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one hundred poems.Trade Review"A high-wire anthology of electric resonance.... The editors arranged poems by poets of the pantheon and poets overlooked, underrated, or new in pairings and sequences of thrilling contrapuntal dynamics. Christian Wiman's opening essay is titled 'Mastery and Mystery,' and those are, indeed, the forces at work here, inducing readers to marvel anew at the strange impulse to write poetry and the profound effort required to do it well." (Booklist) "With this collection, Share and Wiman want only to promote the art of poetry, something they do exceedingly well. Highly recommended." (Library Journal, starred review) "A wonderful anthology.... In many ways this is a wonderfully democratic anthology-to get in, you don't have to be famous, you just need to be good." (National Post) "If readers would like to sample the genius and diversity of American poetry in the last century, there's no better place to start than The Open Door." (World Literature Today)"

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Book SynopsisContemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of styles which repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and seek to revitalize poetry itself. This book explores this evolving body of work, offering revealing discussions of its diverse traditions and feminist concerns.

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Book SynopsisGuillaume d'Orange is the most extensive epic cycle of the Middle Ages. Set in the ninth century, the poems on the life of William of Orange grew out of several centuries of oral composition and were written down for the first time in the twelfth century. Changing and growing through the years, the poems reflect historical events from the ninth to the twelfth century. Joan M. Ferrante writes in the Introduction, History tells us little of the medieval William of Orange, but legend tells us a great deal. From the legends grew the most extensive epic cycle of the Middle Ages.

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