Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisThe selected poems of a legendary romantic.Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.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. RTable of ContentsSelected Poems (Byron)IntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingA Note on This EditionA Fragment ('When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice')To WomanThe CornelianTo Caroline ('You say you love, and yet your eye')English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A SatireLines to Mr Hodgson (Written on Board the Lisbon Packet)Maid of Athens, ere we partWritten after Swimming from Sestos to AbydosTo Thyrza ('Without a stone to mark the spot')Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Cantos I-IIPreface to the First and Second CantosTo IantheCanto the FirstCanto the SecondAppendix to Canto the SecondAn Ode to the Framers of the Frame BillLines to a Lady WeepingThe Waltz: An Apostrophic HymnRemember Thee! Remember Thee!The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish TaleThe Bride of Abydos: A Turkish TaleThe Corsair: A TaleOde to Napoleon BuonaparteStanzas for MusicShe walks in beautyLara: A TaleThe Destruction of Sennacherib Napoleon's Farewell (From the French)From the French ('Must thou go, my glorious Chief')The Siege of CorinthWhen we two partedFare thee well!PrometheusThe Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable and Sonnet on ChillonDarknessChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IIIEpistle to Augusta ('My sister! my sweet sister!' &c.)Lines (On Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill)Manfred: A Dramatic PoemSo, we'll go no more a rovingChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IVEpistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori ('Dear Doctor, I have read your play')Beppo: A Venetian StoryEpistle to Mr Murray ('My dear Mr Murray')MazeppaStanzas to the PoThe Isles of GreeceFrancesca of Rimini. From the Inferno of Dante, Canto the FifthStanzas ('When a man hath no freedom')Sardanapalus: A TragedyWho kill'd John Keats?The Blues" A Literary EclogueThe Vision of JudgmentOn This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth YearNotesWorks Cited in the NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.Trade Review'an exceptionally rich collection. Even the best-read will find poets in it who are new to them...' - John Carey, Sunday Times'... assiduously researched, deftly managed and exhilaratingly ramified, [this] is a landmark anthology, perhaps the last great one-volume work of its kind' - TLS'Keegan arranges the poems, rather than the authors, in chronological order; a radical manoeuvre with a startlingly vivifying effect' - John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph'this big book is welcome: serious, wide-ranging and sometimes surprising... a book you should buy, and read, and argue with' - Anthony Thwaite, Sunday Telegraph'Keegan's book is rich with discoveries and reclaimings... [a] very exciting, bold new book.' - James Wood, Guardian'This anthology is a huge joy. [Keegan] shows the scholarship his system requires, and great taste besides.' - Tom Payne, Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsThe Penguin Book of English VersePreface1300-1350(Rawlinson Lyrics)Anonymous 'Ich am of Irlande'Anonymous 'Maiden in the morë lay'Anonymous 'Al night by the rosë, rosë'(Harley Lyrics)Anonymous 'Bitwenë March and Avëril'Anonymous 'Erthë tok of erthe'1350-1400(Grimestone Lyrics)Anonymous 'Gold and al this worldës wyn'Anonymous 'Gloria mundi est'Anonymous 'Love me broughte'Anonymous (The Dragon Speaks)Geoffrey Chaucer from The Parliament of Fowls(Catalogue of the Birds)(Roundel)Geoffrey Chaucer from The Boke of Troilus(Envoi)Anonymous 'When Adam dalf and Eve span'William Langland from The Vision of Piers Plowman(Prologue)(Gluttony in the Ale-house)Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Talesfrom The General Prologue 'Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote'from The General Prologue (The Prioress)from The Knight's Tale (The Temple of Mars)from The Knight's Tale (Saturn)from The Milleres Tale (Alysoun)from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housbonde was a revelour'from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle'Anonymous from Patience(Jonah and the Whale)Anonymous from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(Gawain Journeys North)Geoffrey Chaucer Envoy to ScoganJohn Gower from Confessio Amantis(Pygmaleon)(The Rape of Lucrece)1430Thomas Hoccleve from The Complaint of Hoccleve'Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves'1440Charles of Orleans (Ballade) ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes')Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Take, take this cosse, attonys, atonys, my hert!')Charles of Orleans (Roundel) ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady')1450(Sloane Lyrics)Anonymous 'Adam lay y-bownden'Anonymous 'I syng of a mayden'Anonymous 'The merthe of alle this londe'Anonymous (Christ Triumphant)Anonymous (Holly against Ivy)Anonymous 'Ther is no rose of swych vertu'1500John Skelton from Phyllyp Sparowe'Whan I remembre agayn'Robert Henryson from The Testament of Cresseid'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend'William Dunbar Lament, When He Wes Seik1510William Dunbar 'Done is a battell on the dragon blak'William Dunbar 'In to thir dirk and drublie dayis'1515Gavin Douglas/Virgil from The Aeneidfrom Book I (Aeolus Looses the Winds)from The Proloug of the Sevynt Buik of EneadosAnonymous (the Corupus Christi Carol)Anonymous 'Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere'Anonymous 'Draw me nere, draw me nere'1520Anonymous 'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow'1523John Skelton from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell(The Garden of the Muses: Iopas' Song)To Maystres Isabell PennellJohn Skelton from Speke Parott(Parrot's Complaint)1530William Cornish 'Pleasure it is'1535Myles Coverdale from The BiblePsalm 137: Super flumina1540Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar'Sir Thomas Wyatt/Petrarch 'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde'Sir Thomas Wyatt 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'Sir Thomas Wyatt 'My lute awake! Perfourme the last'Sir Thomas Wyatt 'Forget not yet the tryde entent'Sir Thomas Wyatt/Alamanni 'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'1542Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat1547Anne Askew The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate1557from Tottel's Songes and SonettesSir Thomas Wyatt/Seneca (Chorus from Thyestes) ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe')Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'O happy dames, that may embrace'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey/Virgil from Certayn bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis(Aeneas searches for his wife)1560from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time')Robert Weever 'Of Youth He Singeth'1563Barnabe Googe Commynge Home-warde out of SpayneBarnabe Googe An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald1565Arthur Golding/Ovid from The First Four Books of Ovid(Proserpine and Dis)(Daphne and Apollo)1567Arthur Golding/Ovid from The Fifteen Books of Ovid(Medea's Incantation)1568Alexander Scott 'To luve unluvit it is ane pane'Anonymous 'Christ was the word that spake it'1579Edmund Spenser from The Shepheardes Calender (Roundelay)1580Edmund Spenser Iambicum Trimetrum1581Jasper Heywood/Seneca (Chorus from Hercules Furens)1582Thomas Watson My Love is Past1584Anonymous A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves1586Chidiock Tichborne 'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares'1588Anonymous 'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses'Anonymous/Theocritus from Sixe Idillia . . . chosen out of . . . Theocritus(Adonis)1589Sir Philip Sidney 'My true love hath my hart, and I have his'1590Sir Walter Raleigh 'As you came from the holy land'Mark Alexander Boyd Sonet ('Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin')Sir Henry Lee 'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd'Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queenefrom Book II, Canto XII (The Bower of Blisse Destroyed)from Book III, Canto VI (The Gardin of Adonis)from Book III, Canto XI (Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane)1591Sir Philip Sidney from Astrophil and Stella1. 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show'31. 'With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb'st the skies'33. 'I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might'Thomas Campion 'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'Sir John Harrington/Ariosto from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon)1592John Lyly from Midas'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed'Samuel Daniel from Delia45. 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night'Henry Constable 'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken'Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie1593from The Phoenix NestAnonymous 'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light'Thomas Lodge The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in LoveBarnabe Barnes from Parthenophil and Parthenophe (Sestina)('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare')Sir Philip Sidney from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines'1594William Shakespeare from Love's Labours Lost'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew'Anonymous 'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content'1595Edmund Spenser from AmorettiSonnet LXVII. ('Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace')Sonnet LXVIII. ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day')Robert Southwell S. J. Decease ReleaseRobert Southwell S.J. New Heaven, New WarreRobert Southwell S.J. The Burning BabeGeorge Peele from The Old Wives Tale'When as the Rie reach to the chin''Gently dip: but not too deepe'1596Edmund Spenser ProthalamionSir John Davies In CosmumSir John Davies from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing('The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing')1597Anonymous 'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely'William Alabaster Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's HandWilliam Alabaster Of His ConversionRobert Sidney, Earl of Leicester 'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest'1598Sir Philip Sidney 'When to my deadlie pleasure'Sir Philip Sidney 'Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust'Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just')Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke from Psalm 139 ('Each inmost peece in me is thine')Christopher Marlowe from Hero and Leander'His bodie was as straight as Circes wand'Anonymous 'Hark, all ye lovely saints above'Christopher Marlowe/Ovid from All Ovids ElegiesBook I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day')Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')John Donne On His Mistris1599Michael Drayton from Idea5. 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'Alexander Hume from Of the Day Estivall'O perfite light, quhik schaid away'George Peele from David and Fair Bethsabe'Hot sunne, coole fire, tempered with sweet aire'Samuel Daniel from Musophilus(Stonehenge)1600Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke from CaelicaSonnet XLV. ('Absence, the noble truce')Sonnet LXXXIV. ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth')Sonnet LXXXV. ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive')Sonnet XCIX. ('Downe in the depth of mine iniquity')Sonnet C. ('In Night when colours all to blacke are cast')from Englands HeliconAnonymous The Sheepheeards Description of LoveChristopher Marlowe The Passionate Sheepheard to his LoveSir Walter Ralegh The Nimphs Reply to the SheepheardThomas Nashe from Summers Last Will and Testament'Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore''Adieu, farewell earths blisse'Anonymous (A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham)Anonymous 'Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new'Anonymous 'Thule, the period of cosmography'1601John Holmes 'Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated'William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night'When that I was and a little tiny boy'William Shakespeare (The Phoenix and Turtle)Thomas Campion/Catulus 'My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love'Thomas Campion 'Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe'Thomas Campion/Propertius 'When thou must home to shades of under ground'1602Anonymous 'The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall'Thomas Campion 'Rose-cheekt Lawra come'1603Anonymous 'Weepe you no more sad fountaines'1604Anonymous The Passionate Mans PilgrimageNicholas Breton from A Solemne Long Enduring Passion'Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me'1607Ben Jonson/Catullus from Volpone'Come my Celia, let us prove'1608Anonymous 'Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!'1609Ben Jonson from Epicoene'Still to be neat, still to be dresst'Edmund Spenser from Two Cantos of Mutabilitie(Nature's Reply to Mutabilitie)William Shakespeare from Sonnets18. 'Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?'55. 'Not marble, nor the guilded monuments'60. 'Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore'66. 'Tyr'd with all these for restfull death I cry'73. 'That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold'94. 'They that have powre to hurt, and will doe none'107. 'Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule'116. 'Let me not to the marriage of true mindes'124. 'Yf my deare love were but the childe of state'129. 'Th'expence of Spirit in a waste of shame'138. 'When my love sweares that she is made of truth'144. 'Two loves I have of comfort and dispaire'William Shakespeare from Cymbeline'Feare no more the heate o'th'Sun'Anonymous (Inscription in Osmington Church, Dorset)Anonymous (Inscription in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Milk Street, London)1610John Davies of Hereford The Author Loving These Homely Meats1611from The Authorized Version of the Bible2 Samuel 1:19-27 David lamenteth the death of JonathanJob 3:3-26 Job curseth the day, and services of his birthEcclesiastes 12:1-8 The Creator is to be remembered in due timeGeorge Chapman/Homer from The Iliads of Homerfrom The Third Booke (Helen and the Elders on the Ramparts)from The Twelfth Booke (Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus)Anonymous A Belmans SongWilliam Shakespeare from The Winter's Tale'When Daffadils begin to peere''Lawne as white as driven Snow'William Shakespeare from The Tempest'Come unto these yellow sands''Full fadom five they Father lies'1612John Webster from The White Divel'Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren'George Chapman/Epictetus Pleasd with thy PlaceThomas Campion 'Never weather-beaten Saile'William Fowler 'Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore toss'1614John Webster from The Dutchesse of Malfy'Hearke, now every thing is still'1615Sir John Harington Of TreasonAnonymous (Tom o' Bedlam's Song)1616Ben Jonson from EpigrammesXIV. To William CamdenXLV. On My First SonneLIX. On SpiesCSVIII. Inviting a Friend to Supper CI. On GutBen Jonson from The Forrest To HeavenWilliam Drummond of Hawthornden Sonnet ('How many times Nights silent Queene her Face')William Browne from Britannia's Pastorals(The Golden Age: Flower-weaving)Thomas Campion 'There is a Garden in her face'Thomas Campion 'Now winter nights enlarge'1618Sir Walter Ralegh (Sir Walter Ralegh to his Sonne)Sir Walter Ralegh from The Ocean to Scinthia'Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way'Sir Walter Ralegh 'Even suche is tyme that takes in trust'1619Michael Drayton from Idea61. 'Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part'Anonymous 'Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight'1620John Donne The CanonizationJohn Donne A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies DayJohn Donne Loves GrowthJohn Donne A Valediction: Forbidding MourningJohn Donne The ExstasieJohn Donne from Holy SonnetsVII. 'At the round earths imagin'd corners'X. 'Death be not proud, though some have called thee'XIV. 'Batter my heart, three person'd God'John Donne A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last Going into GermanyJohn Donne A Hymne to God the Father1621Katherine, Lady Dyer (Epitaph on Sir William Dyer)Lady Mary Wroth from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus77. 'In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?96. 'Late in the Forest I did Cupid see'1623William Drummond of Hawthornden (For the Baptiste)William Drummond of Hawthornden (Content and Resolute)William Browne On the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke1624Sir Henry Wotton On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia1626George Sandys/Ausonius Echo1627Ben Jonson My Picture left in ScotlandBen Jonson An Ode. To HimselfeMichael Drayton from Nimphidia, The Court of Fayrie(Queen Mab's Chariot)1631Michael Drayton These Verses weare Made by Michaell Drayton('Soe well I love thee, as without thee I')Anonymous Felton's EpitaphAnonymous (Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham)1633George Herbert from The TempleRedemptionPrayerChurch-monumentsDeniallHopeThe CollarThe FlowerThe AnswerA WreathLove1635Francis Quarles Embleme IV (Canticles 7.10 I am my Beloved's)1637Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Epitaph on Sir Philip SidneyRobert Sempill of Beltrees The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of KilbarchanThomas Jordan A Double Acrostich on Mrs Svsanna BlvntJohn Milton from A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634(Comus)'The Star that bids the Shepherd fold'1638Thomas Randolph A Gratulatory to Mr Ben. JohnsonSir John Suckling Song ('Why so pale and wan fond Lover?')John Milton Lycidas1640Ben Jonson from A Celebration of Charis, in Ten Lyrick Peeces (Her Triumph)Ben Jonson (A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter)Sidney Godolphin 'Faire Friend, 'tis true, your beauties move'Sidney Godolphin 'Lord when the wise men came from Farr'Henry King An Exequy to His Matchlesse Never to be Forgotten FreindThomas Carew Song. Celia singingThomas Carew Epitaph on the Lady Mary VillersThomas Carew Maria WentworthThomas Carew A Song ('Aske me no more whither doe stray')Thomas Carew Psalme 91William Habington Nox nocti indicat ScientiamWilliam Habington To Castara, Upon an Embrace1641Anonymous On Francis DrakeSir Henry Wotton/Martial Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife1642Sir John Denham from Cooper's Hill'Here should my wonder dwell, and here my praise'1645Edmund Waller Song ('Go lovely Rose')Edmund Waller Of the Marriage of the DwarfsEdmund Waller To a Lady in a GardenJohn Milton from On the Morning of Christs Nativity Compos'd 1629'It was the Winter wilde'1646Richard Crashaw from Divine EpigramsUpon Our Saviours Tombe Wherein Never Man was LaidUpon the Infant MartyrsRichard Crashaw Musicks DuellSir John Suckling (Loves Siege)John Hall An Epicurean OdeJames Shirley Epitaph on the Duke of BuckinghamJames Shirley 'The glories of our blood and state'1647John Cleveland Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford1648Sir Richard Fanshawe/Gongora A Great Favorit BeheadedRobert Herrick from HesperidesThe Argument of His BookUpon Julia's VoiceDelight in DisorderTo the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeThe Comming of Good LuckTo MeddowesThe Departure of the Good DaemonUpon Prew His MaidOn HimselfeRobert Herrick The White Island: Or Place of the Blest1649Richard Lovelace from LucastaSong. To Lucasta, Going to the WarresTo Althea from PrisonThe Grasse-hopperWilliam Drummond/Passerat Song"Shephard loveth thow me vell?'1650James Graham, Marquis of Montrose On Himself, upon Hearing What was His SentenceAnonymous from The Second Scottish PsalterPsalm 124Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans, Or Sacred PoemsThe Retreate'Silence, and stealth of dayes! 'tis now'The World1651William Cartwright No Platonique LoveJohn Cleveland The AntiplatonickJohn Cleveland A Song of Marke AnthonyThomas Stanley The Snow-ballThomas Stanley The GrassehopperSir Henry Wotton Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earle of SomersetSir Richard Fanshawe/Horace Odes. IV, 7 To L. Manlius TorquatusRichard Crashaw from The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa1653Aurelian Townshend A Dialogue betwixt Time and a PilgrimeMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Of Many Worlds in This World1655Henry Vaughan from Silex Scintillans II'They are all gone into the world of light!'Cock-crowingThe Night1656Abraham Cowley from Anacreontiques Translated Paraphrastically from the GreekII. DrinkingX. The GrashopperAbraham Cowley from Davideis(Lot's Wife)William Strode Song ('I saw faire Cloris walke alone')William Strode On Westwell DownesJohn Taylor and Anonymous Non-senseSir John Suckling 'Out upon it, I have lov'd'1657George Daniel Ode. The Robin1659Richard Lovelace The Snayl1662Samuel Butler from Hudibras(The Presbyterian Knight)1663Abraham Cowley Ode. Upon Dr. HarveyAbraham Cowley/Horace The Country Mouse. A Paraphrase upon Horace Book II, Satire 61665Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Sonnet. Made upon the Groves near Merlou CastleJohn Dryden/Ovid from The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses(Deucalion and Pyrrha)1694John Dryden To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call'd The Double-Dealer1697John Dryden/Virgil from Virgil's Aeneisfrom The Second Book ('The Death of Priam)from The Fourth Book (Fame)from The Sixth Book (Charon)1700John Dryden/Ovid Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book FifteenJohn Dryden from The Secular Masque'Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace'1701Sir Charles Sedley Song ('Phillis, let's shun the common Fate')Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea from The Spleen'O'er me, alas! thou dost too much prevail'1704William Congreve Song ('Pious Celinda goes to Pray'rs')William Congreve A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret1706Isaac Watts The Day of Judgement. An Ode. Attempted in English Sapphick1707Isaac Watts Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ Gal. vi.141709Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Pos'dMatthew Prior An Ode ('The Merchant, to secure his Treasure')Ambrose Phillips A Winter-Piece1710Jonathan Swift A Description of a City Shower1712Joseph Addison Ode ('The Spacious Firmament on high')1713Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea A Nocturnal Reverie1714Samuel Jones The Force of LoveAlexander Pope from The Rape of the Lockfrom Canto Ifrom Canto V1716John Gay from Trivia: Or The Art of Walking the Streets of London(Of the Weather)1717Alexander Pope Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation1718Matthew Prior A Better Answer to Cloe JealousMatthew Prior The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass to VenusMatthew Prior A True Maid1719Isaac Watts Man Frail, and God Eternal1720Allan Ramsay Polwart on the GreenJohn Gay My Own Epitaph1722Alexander Pope To Mr. Gay . . . on the Finishing His HouseJonathan Swift A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous GeneralWilliam Diaper/Oppian from Oppian's Halieuticks(The Loves of the Fishes)1724Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Epistle from Mrs. Y(onge) to her Husband1725Edward Young from Love of Fame. Satire V'The languid lady next appears in state'Henry Carey from Namby-Pamby. A Panegyric on the New Versification1726Abel Evans On Sir John Vanbrugh (The Architect). An Epigrammatical EpitaphJohn Dyer from Grongar Hill'Now, I gain the Mountain's Brow'Allan Ramsay/Horace 'What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass'James Thomson from Summer('Forenoon. Summer Insects Described')('Night. Summer Meteors. A Comet')1727John Gay from FablesThe Wild Boar and the RamThomas Sheridan Tom Punsibi's Letter to Dean SwiftHenry Carey A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties' Accession1728John Gay from The Beggar's Opera'Were I laid on Grrenland's Coast'1731Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Burlington'At Timon's Villa let us pass a day'Jonathan Swift The Day of JudgementJonathan Swift An Epigram on Scolding1732Jonathan Swift Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan1733Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's 'Advice to a lady')Alexander Pope from An Epistle to Bathurst(Sir Balaam)George Farewell Quaerè1734Jonathan Swift A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed1735Alexander Pope from Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady'Nothing so true as what you once let fall'Alexander Pope from An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot'You think this cruel? take it for a rule'Alexander Pope Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac NewtonJohn Dyer My Ox Duke1737Matthew Green from The Spleen'To cure the mind's wrong biass, spleen'1738Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal'Tho' grief and fondness in my breast rebel'Alexander Pope from Epilogue to the SatiresAlexander Pope Epitaph for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey1739Jonathan Swift from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift'The Time is not remote, when I'1740Alexander Pope On Queen Caroline's Death-bedSamuel Johnson An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a MusicianCharles Wesley Morning HymnAlexander Pope from The Dunciad(The Tribe of Fanciers)(The Triumph of Dullness)1744Anonymous On the Death of Mr. Popefrom Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song BookAnonymous Cock RobbinAnonymous London Bridge1745Charles Wesley 'Let Earth and Heaven combine'1746William Collins Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746William Collins Ode to Evening1747William Shenstone Lines Written on a Window at the Leasowes at a Time of Very Deep Snow1748Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A Receipt to Cure the VapoursMary Leapor Mira's WillChristopher Smart A Morning-Piece, Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers1749Samuel Johnson/Juvenal from The Vanity of Human Wishes'When first the College Rolls receive his Name'1751Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard1755Anonymous This is the House That Jack Built1761Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno'For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent''For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'1763Christopher Smart from A Song to David'O David, highest in the list'1764Oliver Goldsmith from The Traveller, Or a Prospect of Society (Britain)Samuel Johnson (Lines contributed to Goldsmith's 'The Traveller')1765from Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the CradleAnonymous 'High diddle diddle'from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English PoetryAnonymous Sir Patrick SpenceAnonymous Edward, EdwardAnonymous Lord Thomas and Fair AnnetChristopher Smart Hymn. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ1766Oliver Goldsmith from The Vicar of Wakefield'When lovely woman stoops to folly'1769Thomas Gray On L(or)d H(olland')s Seat near M(argat)e, K(en)t1770Oliver Goldsmith from The Deserted Village'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close'1772John Byrom On the Origin of EvilRobert Fergusson The Daft-Days1774William Cowper Light Shining out of DarknessWilliam Cowper 'Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion'Anonymous (Epitaph for Thomas Johnson, huntsman, Charlton, Sussex)Oliver Goldsmith from Retaliation(Edmund Burke)(David Garrick)(Joshua Reynolds)1777Richard Brinsley Sheridan On Lady Anne HamiltonSamuel Johnson Prologue to Hugh Kelly's 'A Word to the Wise'Samuel Johnson (Lines Contributed to Hawkesworth's 'The Rival)Richard Brinsley Sheridan from The School for Scandal Song and Chorus ('Here's to the maiden of Bashful fifteen')1779William Cowper The Contrite Heart. Isaiah lvii. 15Robert Fergusson/Horace Odes I. II1780Samuel Johnson A Short Song of Congratulation1783Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert LevetWilliam Blake To the Evening Star1784William Cowper from The Task(The Winter Evening)(The Winter Walk at Noon)1786Robert Burns To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough, November, 17851787Robert Burns Address to the Unco Guid, Or the Rigidly Righteous1789William Blake from Songs of InnocenceHoly ThursdayCharlotte Smith Sonnet. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in SussexElizabeth Hands On an Unsociable Family1791Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter. A Tale1792Robert Burns Song ('Ae fond kiss, and then we sever')1793William Blake from Visions of the Daughters of Albion'Then Oothoon waited silent all the day'William Blake 'Never seek to tell thy love'1794William Blake from Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceIntroduction ('Hear the voice of the Bard!')The Clod and the PebbleThe Sick RoseThe TygerAh! Sun-FlowerThe Garden of LoveLondonA Poison Tree1796Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Eolian HarpRobert Burns A Red, Red Rose1797George Canning and John Hookham Frere SapphicsCharlotte Smith Sonnet. On being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea1798from Lyrical BalladsSamuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts'It is an ancyent Marinere'William Wordsworth Old Man TravellingWilliam Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern AbbeySamuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight1799William Wordsworth from The Two-Part Prelude of 1799'Was it for this?'Robert Burns from Love and Liberty. A Cantara'See the smoking bowl before us'1800William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads'A slumber did my spirit seal'Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')1801Robert Burns 'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast'Robert Burns The Fornicator. A New Song1802Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection. An Ode, Written April 4, 1802Sir Walter Scott (editor) from Minstrelsy of the Scottish BorderAnonymous The Wife of Usher's WellAnonymous Thomas RhymerAnonymous Lord RandalAnonymous A Lyke-Wake Dirge1803Anonymous The Twa CorbiesWilliam Cowper The SnailWilliam Cowper The Cast-away1804William Blake from Milton (Preface)'And did those feet in ancient time'William Blake 'Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau'1805William Blake The Crystal CabinetWilliam Blake from Auguries of Innocence'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'1806Anonymous Lamkin1807William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster BridgeWilliam Wordsworth Elegaic Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele CastleWilliam Wordsworth The Small CelandineWilliam Wordsworth Ode (Intimations of Immortality)1808Thomas Moore 'Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers'1810George Crabbe from The Boroughfrom Prisons (The Condemned Man)from Peter Grimes ('Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand')Sir Walter Scott from The Lady of the LakeCoronach1815George Gordon, Lord Byron Stanzas for Music1816Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan Or, A Vision in a Dream. A FragmentJohn Keats On First Looking into Chapman's HomerPercy Bysshe Shelley To Wordsworth1817Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!John Keats 'After dark vapours have oppress'd our plains'1818John Keats from Endymion'But there are Richer entanglements'Percy Bysshe Shelley OzymandiasSir Walter Scott from The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Proud Maisie is in the wood'1819Sir Walter Scott from The Bride of Lammermoor(Lucy Ashton's song)George Crabbe from Tales of the Hallfrom Delay has Danger ('Three weeks had past, and Richard rambles now')William Blake To the Accuser Who is the God of This WorldPercy Bysshe Shelley from The Mask of Anarchy'As I lay asleep in Italy'George Gordon, Lord Byron from Don Juanfrom Canto I (Juan's Puberty)from Canto II (The Shipwreck)John Keats The Eve of St. AgnesJohn Keats Ode to a NightingaleJohn Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn Keats To AutumnJohn Keats Ode on MelancholyJohn Keats 'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art -'1820John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci. A BalladPercy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West WindPercy Bysshe Shelley from The Sensitive-Plant'Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that'1821Percy Bysshe Shelley from Adonais'The One remains, the many change and pass'1822George Gordon, Lord Byron from The Vision of Judgment'Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate'1823George Gordon, Lord Byron Aristomenes. Canto First1824George Gordon, Lord Byron January 22nd 1824. Messalonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty Sixth YearGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron 'Remember Thee, Remember Thee!'Percy Bysshe Shelley To Jane. The InvitationPercy Bysshe Shelley from Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation'I rode one evening with Count Maddalo'Percy Bysshe Shelley from The Triumph of Life'As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay'Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Laird o' CockpenCaroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne The Land o' the Leal1826Anonymous (A Metrical Adage)Anonymous Tweed and TillAnonymous (A Rhyme from Lincolnshire)1827Winthrop Mackworth Praed Good-night to the Season1828Thomas Hood Death in the KitchenSamuel Taylor Coleridge Duty Surviving Self-Love1829Felicia Dorothea Hemans CasabiancaDorothy Wordsworth Floating IslandLaetitia Elizabeth Landon Lines of LifeLaetitia Elizabeth Landon RevengeThomas Love Peacock The War-Song of Dinas VawrWinthrop Mackworth Praed Arrivals at a Watering Place1830George Gordon, Lord Byron 'So, we'll go no more a roving'1831Walter Savage Landor'Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives'Walter Savage Landor DirceWalter Savage Landor On Seeing a Hair of Lucrezia Borgia1832George Gordon, Lord Byron Lines on Hearing That Lady Byron was Ill1833Hartley Coleridge 'Long time a child, and still a child, when years'1834Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Knight's Tomb1835John Clare The Nightingales NestJohn Clare The Sky LarkJohn Clare Mist in the MeadowsJohn Clare Sand MartinGeorge Darley from Nepenthe'Hurry me Nymphs!'1836John Henry Newman The Pillar of the Cloud1837George Darley The Mermaidens' Vesper-HymnJohn Clare 'I found a ball of grass among the hay'John Clare 'The old pond full of flags and fenced around'John Clare from The Badger'When midnight comes a host of dogs and men'1838Leigh Hunt from The Fish, the Man, and the SpiritTo FishA Fish Answers1839Thomas Hood Sonnet to Vauxhall1842Robert Browning My Last DuchessRobert Browning from Waring'What's become of Waring'Alfred, Lord Tennyson UlyssesElizabeth Barrett Browning Grief1844William Barnes The Clote1845William WordsworthThe Simplon PassThomas Hood Stanzas ('Farewell, Life! My senses swim')Robert Browning The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church1846Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense'There was an Old Man with a beard''There was an Old Person of Basing''There was an Old Man of Whitehaven'Emily Jane Bronte 'The night is darkening round me'Emily Jane Bronte 'Fall leaves fall die flowers away'Emily Jane Bronte 'All hushed and still within the house'Emily Jane Bronte RemembranceJames Clarence Mangan Siberia1847Alred, Lord Tennyson from The Princess'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white''Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height'1848John Clare 'I am'1849Walter Savage Landor 'I strove with none, for none was worth my strife'Matthew Arnold from Resignation. To Fausta('He sees the gentle stir of birth')1850Emily Jane Bronte and Charlotte Bronte The VisionaryAlfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam A.H.H.II. 'Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'VII. 'Dark house, by which once more I stand'XI. 'Calm is the morn without a sound'LVI. '"So careful of the type?" but no'CXV. 'Now fades the last long streak of snow'Thomas Lovell Beddoes from Death's Jest Book, or the Fool's Tragedy'And what's your tune?'1851Thomas Lovell Beddoes from The Last ManA CrocodileA Lake1852Matthew Arnold To Marguerite - Continued1853Walter Savage Landor 'Our youth was happy: why repine'Walter Savage Landor Separation1854James Henry 'Another and another and another'James Henry 'The son's a poor, wretched, unfortunate creature'1855Robert Browning Love in a LifeRobert Browning How It Strikes a ContemporaryRobert Browning MemorabiliaRobert Browning Two in the Campagna1856Coventry Patmore from Victories of Love, Book 1, 2'He that but once too nearly hears'1858Arthur Hugh Clough from Amours de Voyage (Canto II)V. 'Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears'VII. 'So, I have seen a man killed!'VIII. 'Only think, dearest Louisa'IX. 'It is most curious to see what a power'X. 'I am in love, meantime, you think'1859Edward Fitzgerald from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night'William Barnes My Orcha'd in Linden LeaWilliam Barnes False Friends-like1860Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tithonus1861Dante Gabriel Rossetti/Dante Sestina: of the Lady Pietra degli ScrovigniAdelaide Anne Procter Envy1862Christina Rossetti MayChristina Rossetti Song ('When I am dead, my dearest')Christina Rossetti Winter: My SecretElizabeth Barrett Browning Lord Walter's WifeElizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical InstrumentGeorge Meredith from Modern LoveI. 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'XVII. 'At dinner she is hostess, I am host'XXXIV. 'Madam would speak with me. So now it comes'L. 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest DecalogueAlgernon Charles Swinburne Free ThoughtWilliam Barnes Leaves-a-VallènWilliam Barnes The Turnstile1863Walter Savage Landor MemoryDante Gabriel Rossetti Sudden Light1864Robert Browning Youth and ArtJohn Clare 'The thunder mutters louder and more loud'1865Lewis Carroll from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'"You are old, Father William," the young man said''They told me you had been to her'George Eliot In a London DrawingroomArthur Hugh Clough from Dipsychus'"There is no God," the wicked saith'1866Algernon Charles Swinburne ItylusAlgernon Charles Swinburne from Sapphics'All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids'Christina Rossetti The Queen of HeartsChristina Rossetti 'What Would I Give'1867Matthew Arnold Dover BeachMatthew Arnold Growing OldDora Greenwell A Scherzo. (A Shy Person's Wishes)1868Charles Turner On a Vase of Gold-FishMortimer Collins Winter in Brighton1869Matthew Arnold 'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light'1870Augusta Webster from A Castaway'Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts'Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Match with the MoonDante Gabriel Rossetti The Woodspurge1871Edward Lear 'There was an old man who screamed out'Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-Cat1872Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking-Glass'In winter, when the fields are white'Christina Rossetti from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book'Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush''A city plum is not a plum''If a pig wore a wig''I caught a little ladybird'Robert Browning (Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus)1875Christina Rossetti By the Sea1877Coventry Patmore Magna est VeritasGerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: To Christ our LordGerard Manley Hopkins Pied BeautyGerard Manley Hopkins from The Wreck of the Deutschland'Thou mastering me'1878Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken GardenAlgernon Charles Swinburne A Vision of Spring in Winter1880Alfred, Lord Tennyson RizpahCharles Turner Letty's Globe1881Joseph Skipsey 'Get Up!'Christina Rossetti 'Summer is Ended'Gerard Manley Hopkins InversnaidGerard Manley Hopkins 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'Robert Louis Stevenson from Treasure IslandPirate DittyRobert Louis Stevenson 'Last night we had a thunderstorm in style'1882William Allingham 'Everything passes and vanishes'1884Amy Levy Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)1885Alfred, Lord Tennyson To E. FitzGeraldGerard Manley Hopkins Spelt from Sibyl's LeavesGerard Manley Hopkins 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'1886Dante Gabriel Rossetti from A Trip to Paris and BelgiumI. from London to FolkestoneXVI. Antwerp to Ghent1887Anonymous Johnny, I Hardly Knew YeRobert Louis Stevenson To Mrs Will H. LowRobert Louis Stevenson 'My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves'May Kendall Lay of the Trilobite1888A. Mary F. Robinson NeurastheniaW. E. Henley from In HospitalII. WaitingIII. Interior1889Amy Levy A Ballade of Religion and MarriageW. B. Yeats Down by the Salley Gardens1891William Morris Pomona1892Rudyard Kipling Danny DeeverRudyard Kipling MandalayW. B. Yeats The Sorrow of LoveArthur Symons At the Cavour1894John Davidson Thirty Bob a Week1895Robert Louis Stevenson To S. R. CrockettAlice Meynell Cradle-Song at TwilightAlice Meynell ParentageMay Probyn TrioletsTête-à-TêteMasqueradingA Mésalliance1895Mary E. Coleridge An Insincere Wish Addressed to a BeggarChristina Rossetti Promises like Pie-crustErnest Dowson Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longamA. E. Housman from A Shropshire LadXII. 'When I watch the living meet'XL. 'Into my heart an air that kills'LII. 'Far in a western brookland'John Davidson A Northern Suburb1897Arthur Symons White HeliotropeRudyard Kipling Recessional1898Oscar Wilde from The Ballad of Reading Gaol'He did not wear his scarlet coat'W. E. Henley To W. R.Thomas Hardy Neutral TonesThomas Hardy Thoughts of Phena1900Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush1906Walter De La Mare The BirthnightWalter De La Mare AutumnWalter De La Mare Napoleon1908Mary E. Coleridge No NewspapersMichael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) The Mummy Invokes His Soul1909John Davidson SnowJ. M. Synge On an Island1910J. M. Synge The 'Mergency Man1911W. H. Davies Sheep1912Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the TwainT. E. Hulme AutumnT. E. Hulme ImageEzra Pound The Return1913Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro1914H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) OreadThomas Hardy from Poems of 1912-13The WalkThe VoiceAfter a JourneyAt Castle BoterelW. B. Yeats The Cold HeavenW. B. Yeats The MagiCharlotte Mew Fame1915Ezra Pound The GypsyEzra Pound/Rihaku from CathayThe River-Merchant's Wife: A LetterLament of the Frontier GuardRupert Brooke PeaceRupert Brooke Heaven1916D. H. Lawrence SorrowCharles Hamilton Sorley 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'Edward Thomas Cock-CrowEdward Thomas AspensAnna Wickham The Fired PotCharlotte Mew A quoi bon direCharlotte Mew The Quiet House1917T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT. S. Eliot Aunt HelenIsaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the TrenchesIsaac Rosenberg August 1914Isaac Rosenberg 'A worm fed on the heart of Corinth'Thomas Hardy During Wind and RainEdward Thomas Old ManEdward Thomas Tall NettlesEdward Thomas Blenheim OrangesEdward Thomas Rain1918Wilfred Owen FutilityWilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed YouthWilfred Owen The Send-OffWilfed Owen Maundy ThursdaySiegfried Sassoon Base DetailsSiegfried Sassoon The General1919Siegfried Sassoon Everyone SangIvor Gurney To His LoveIvor Gurney The Silent OneRudyard Kipling from Epitaphs of War, 1914-18A ServantA SonThe CowardThe Refined ManCommon FormRudyard Kipling GethsemaneLaurence Binyon For the Fallen (September 1914)W. B. Yeats The Wild Swans at CooleT. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the NightingalesEzra Pound from Homage to Sextus PropertiusVI. 'When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids'1920Ezra Pound from Hugh Selwyn MauberleyII. 'The age demanded an image'IV. 'These fought in any case'V. 'There died a myriad'W. B. Yeats Easter, 1916T. S. Eliot GerontionA. E. Housman from Last PoemsXII. 'The laws of God, the laws of man'XXXIII. 'When the eye of day is shut'XXXVII. Epitaph on an Army of MercenariesXL. 'Tell me not here, it needs not saying'A. E. Housman 'It is a fearful thing to be'1922T. S. Eliot from The Waste LandI. The Burial of the DeadIV. Death by WaterIvor Gurney PossessionsIvor Gurney The High Hills1923D. H. Lawrence Medlars and Sorb-ApplesD. H. Lawrence The MosquitoD. H. Lawrence The Blue JayHilaire Belloc On a General ElectionHilaire Belloc Ballade of Hell and of Mrs RoebeckW. B. Yeats Leda and the Swan1925Robert Graves Love Without HopeRobert Bridges To Francis JammesEdmund Blunden The Midnight SkatersBasil Bunting from Villon'Remember, imbeciles and wits'Edwin Muir ChildhoodHugh Macdiarmid from SangschawThe WatergawThe Eemis Stane1926Hugh Macdiarmid Empty VesselHugh Macdiarmid from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle'O wha's the bride that carries the bunch?'1927James Joyce from Pomes PenyeachBahnhofstrasse1928Thomas Hardy Lying AwakeAustin Clarke The Planter's DaughterW. B. Yeats Sailing to ByzantiumW. B. Yeats from Meditations in Time of Civil WarV. The Road at My DoorVI. The State's Nest by My WindowW. B. Yeats Among School ChildrenW.H. Auden 'Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings'1929D. H. Lawrence The Mosquito KnowsD. H. Lawrence To Women, As Far As I'm ConcernedD. H. Lawrence Innocent EnglandE. C. Bentley (Clerihews)'George the Third''Nell'Edmund Blunden Report on ExperienceRobert Graves Sick LoveRobert Graves Warning to ChildrenRobert Graves It Was All Very Tidy1930W. H. Auden 'This lunar beauty'T. S. Eliot Marina1932Basil Bunting from Chomei at Toyama'I have been noting events forty years'D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians1933Rudyard Kipling The BonfiresW. B. Yeats In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con MarkieviczDylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse1934Hugh Macdiarmid from On a Raised Beach'All is lithogenesis - or lochia'1935William Empson This Last PainWilliam Empson Homage to the British MuseumLouis Macneice SnowWilliam Soutar The Tryst1936W. H. Auden 'Out on the lawn I lie in bed'W. H. Auden 'Now the leaves are falling fast'Elizabeth Daryush Still-LifeLaura Riding The Wind SuffersPatrick Kavanagh Inniskeen Road: July EveningA. E. Housman from More PoemsXXIII. 'Crossing alone the nighted ferry'XXXI. 'Because I liked you better'1937A. E. Housman 'Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?'John Betjeman The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan HotelDavid Jones from In Parenthesisfrom Part 3 'And the deepened stillness'from Part 7 'But sweet sister death'1938Austin Clarke The Straying StudentRobert Graves To Evoke PosterityElizabeth Daryush 'Children of wealth in your warm nursery'Louis Macneice The Sunlight on the Garden1939W. B. Yeats Long-legged FlyW. H. Auden In Memory of W. B. YeatsLouis Macneice from Autumn JournalI. 'Close and slow, summer is ending in Hampshire'XV. 'Shelley and jazz and lieder and love and hymn-tunes'1940W. H. Auden Musée des Beaux ArtsJohn Betjeman Pot-Pourri from a Surrey GardenWilliam Empson Missing DatesWilliam Empson Aubade1941Louis Macneice Meeting PointLouis Macneice Autobiography1942T. S. Eliot from Little GiddingII. 'Ash on an old man's sleeve'Alun Lewis Raiders' DawnNorman Cameron Green, Green is El AghirStevie Smith Bog-FaceStevie Smith DirgePatrick Kavanagh from The Great Hungerfrom I. 'Clay is the word and clay is the flesh'III. 'Poor Paddy Maquire, a fourteen-hour day'from XI. 'The cards are shuffled and the deck'from XII. 'The fields were bleached white'1943Henry Reed Judging DistancesDavid Gascoyne Snow in EuropeDavid Gascoyne A Wartime DawnKeith Douglas Desert Flowers1944H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) from The Walls Do Not FallI. 'An incident here and there'Sorley Maclean HallaigLaurence Binyon Winter SunriseLaurence Binyon The Burning of the LeavesKeith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht1945Robert Graves To Juan at the Winter SolsticeDylan Thomas Poem in OctoberW. H. Auden from The Sea and the MirrorMirandaRuth Pitter But for LustWilliam Empson Let It Go1946Samuel Beckett Saint-LôKeith Douglas How to Kill1949Edwin Muir the Interrogation1950Marion Angus Alas! Poor QueenStevie Smith Pad, Pad1951Dylan Thomas Over Sir John's Hill1952Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good nightW. H. Auden The Fall of RomeW. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles1954John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1Robert Garioch ElegyThom Gunn The WoundPhilip Larkin At Grass1955Norman Maccaig Summer Farm1956Edwin Muir The Horses1957Ted Hughes The Thought-FoxLouis Macneice House on a CliffStevie Smith Not Waving But DrowningStevie Smith Magna est Veritas1959Geoffrey Hill A Pastoral1960Ted Hughes PikePatrick Kavanagh EpicPatrick Kavanagh Come Dance with Kitty StoblingPatrick Kavanagh The Hospital1961R. S. Thomas HereRoy Fisher from Cityfrom By the PondToylandThom Gunn In Santa Maria del PopoloThom Gunn My Sad Captains1962Malcolm Lowry (Strange Type)Christopher Logue/Homer from Patrocleia(Apollo Strikes Patroclus)1963Charles Tomlinson The Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of StoneR. S. Thomas On the FarmLouis Macneice Soap SudsLouis Macneice The TaxisAustin Clarke Martha Blake at Fifty-One1964Philip Larkin Mr BleaneyPhilip Larkin HerePhilip Larkin DaysPhilip Larkin AfternoonsDonald Davie The Hill Field1965Sylvia Plath Sheep in FogSylvia Plath The Arrival of the Bee BoxSylvia Plath Edge1966Basil Bunting from BriggflattsI. 'Brag, sweet tenor bull'R. S. Thomas PietàR. S. Thomas GiftsSeamus Heaney Personal Helicon1967Ted Hughes ThistlesTed Hughes Full Moon and Little FriedaJohn Montague from A Chosen LightII. rue DaguerreGeorge Theiner/Miroslav Holub The Fly1968Geoffrey Hill Ovid in the Third ReichGeoffrey Hill September SongRoy Fisher As He Came Near DeathRoy Fisher The Memorial Fountain1969Michael Longley PersephoneDouglas Dunn A Removal from Terry StreetDouglas Dunn On Roofs of Terry StreetNorman Maccaig Wild OatsIain Crichton Smith Shall Gaelic Die?1970W. S. Graham Malcolm Mooney's LandIan Hamilton The VisitIan Hamilton NewscastTom Leonard from Unrelated Incidents3. 'this is thi'Ted Hughes from CrowA Childish Prank1971Thom Gunn MolyGeoffrey Hill from Mercian HymnsI. 'King of the perennial holly-graves'VI. 'The princes of Mercia were badger and raven'VII. 'Gasholders, russet among fields'XXVII. 'Now when King Offa was alive and dead'George Mackay Brown Kirkyard1972Stevie Smith ScorpionCharles Tomlinson Stone SpeechDerek Mahon An Image from BeckettSeamus Heaney The Tollund ManSeamus Heaney BroaghDouglas Dunn Modern LoveÉilean Ní Chuilleanáin SwineherdÉilean Ní Chuilleanáin The Second Voyage1973Thomas Kinsella Hen WomanThomas Kinsella AncestorMichael Longley WoundsPaul Muldoon Wind and Tree1974Philip Larkin This Be the VersePhilip Larkin MoneyPhilip Larkin from LivingsII. 'Seventy feet down'Philip Larkin The ExplosionPadraic Fallon A Bit of Brass1975Seamus Heaney from Singing School6. ExposureDerek Mahon The Snow PartyDerek Mahon A Disused Shed in Co. WexfordD. J. Enright Remembrance SundayJohn Fuller Wild Raspberries1976Michael Longley Man Lying on a WallElma Mitchell Thoughts after RuskinThom Gunn The Idea of Trust1977Donald Davie from In the Stopping Train'I have got into the slow train'Norman Maccaig Notations of Ten Summer MinutesW. S. Graham Lines on Roger Hilton's WatchRobert Garioch The Maple and the Pine1978Geoffrey Hill from An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England9. The Laurel Axe12. The Eve of St MarkThomas Kinsella Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River NoreJames Fenton In a NotebookJeffrey Wainwright 18151979Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard HomeChristopher Reid BaldandersTed Hughes February 17thSeamus Heaney The Strand at Lough BegMichael Longley from WreathsThe Linen Workers1980Tom Paulin Where Art is a MidwifePaul Muldoon Why Brownlee LeftPaul Muldoon AnseoPaul Durcan Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's ParlourPaul Durcan The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious1981James Fenton A German RequiemTony Harrison The Earthen LotDerek Mahon Courtyards in Delft1983Paul Muldoon QuoofPaul Muldoon The FrogTom Paulin Desertmartin1984Seamus Heaney WidgeonSeamus Heaney from Station IslandVII. 'I had come to the edge of the water'Douglas Dunn from ElegiesThe Sundial1985Derek Mahon AntarcticaJohn Agard Listen to Mr Oxford don1987Peter Didsbury The HailstonePaul Muldoon Something ElseCiaran Carson DresdenEavan Boland Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening1988Charles Causley Eden RockEdwin Morgan The DowserNorman Maccaig Chauvinist1989Ted Hughes Telegraph Wires1990Ken Smith Writing in PrisonCiaran Carson Belfast ConfettiNuala Níi Dhomhnaill (trans. Paul Muldoon) The Language IssueEavan Boland The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me1991Seamus Heaney from LighteningsVIII. 'The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise'Michael Longley The Butchers1992Denise Riley A Misremembered LyricThom Gunn The HugThom Gunn The Reassurance1994Hugo Williams PrayerHugo Williams Last PoemEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Studying the LanguageChristopher Reid/Ovid Stories and BonesAcknowledgementsIndex of PoetsIndex of First linesIndex of Titles

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Book SynopsisA collection of the finest and earliest poems composed in English, from tales of battle to love songsThis selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan’s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ’s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon’s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.For more than seventy years, Penguin hTrade ReviewMichael Alexander is much the best translator from Old English. His Penguin Beowulf is much to be recommended, but so too is the volume entitled The First Poems in English -- A.N. Wilson

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Book SynopsisThe Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake''s ''Tyger'', Coleridge''s ''Khubla Khan'' and Shelley''s ''Ozymandias'' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

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Book SynopsisCompiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. Eclectic, incomplete and fragmented, these verses nevertheless retain their stark beauty and their power to enthrall, opening a window on to the thoughts, beliefs and hopes of the Vikings and their world.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for recitation at festivals, this title includes 33 songs that were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. It features songs that recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals.Trade Review"The purest expression of ancient Greek religion we possess. Jules Cashford is attuned to the poetry of the Hymns." (Nigel Spivey, Cambridge University)Table of ContentsThe Homeric HymnsIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslator's NoteThe Homeric HymnsI. Hymn To DionysosII. Hymn To DemeterIII. Hymn To ApolloDelian ApolloPythian ApolloIV. Hymn To HermesV. Hymn To AphroditeVI. Hymn To AphroditeVII. Hymn To DionysosVIII. Hymn To AresIX. Hymn To ArtemisX. Hymn To AphroditeXI. Hymn To AthenaXII. Hymn To HeraXIII. Hymn To DemeterXIV. Hymn To The Mother Of The GodsXV. Hymn To Herakles, The Lion-HeartedXVI. Hymn To AsklepiosXVII. Hymn To DioskouroiXVIII. Hymn To HermesXIX. Hymn To PanXX. Hymn To HephaistosXXI. Hymn To ApolloXXII. Hymn To Poseidon XXIII. Hymn To The Son Of Kronos, Most HighXXIV. Hymn To HestiaXXV. Hymn To The Muses And ApolloXXVI. Hymn To DionysosXXVII. Hymn To ArtemisXXVIII. Hymn To AthenaXXIX. Hymn To HestiaXXX. Hymn To Gaia, Mother Of AllXXXI. Hymn To HeliosXXXII. Hymn To SeleneXXXIII. Hymn To The DioskouroiNotes

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Book SynopsisOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne’s warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, while Roland’s last stand is the ultimate expression of honour and feudal values of twelfth-century France.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 disciplin

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Book SynopsisTogether these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.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.Table of ContentsTheology and Works and Days; ElegiesHESIODIntroductionTheologyWorks and DaysTHEOGNISIntroductionElegiesNotesSelect Glossary

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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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