Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Roses
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£7.54
Tuttle Publishing A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku: Major Works
Book SynopsisAn old pond;a frog jumps in:the sound of water — Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by renowned author and translator William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translated. Wilson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the works of the major Japanese poets from the fifteenth century up to the present.The poets include Basho, Shiki, Buson and Issa (the "Great Four") along with other well-known practitioners of the genre such as Ryokan, Kikaku and Chora. Wilson gives his own brand-new renditions of poems that are already known as classics, and also shares with us the delightful work of a number of poets who are rarely found in English translation, such as six female poets including Chiyojo and Hisajo, as well as novelist Natsume Soseki, who, unbeknown to many, also wrote haiku.The book is divided into sections, each starting with a 2-4 page introduction to each poet, followed by a selection of that poet's haiku, in Japanese script and English translation. Online audio files are available with recordings of the poems in both English and Japanese.
£13.49
Batsford Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year
Book Synopsis Celebrate love with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year. From well-known classics to modern fresh takes, Poetry of Love for Every Day of the Year explores love in all its forms. Love is such a uniquely human feeling which has made it an inexhaustible subject for writers across the ages. There are so many meanings for this one word - it can evoke friends, family, romance or a sense of home.Everyone has their own attachments and associations, which is what makes this collection so fascinating. Among the 366 poems are Shakespeare''s classic sonnets, Ocean Vuong''s experiences of young queer love, Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s ode to her dog, Charlotte Mew dealing with loss, and much, much more. With a wide range of voices spanning across the world through many centuries, this anthology explores how love can mean so many things and how it connects us all. This is the newest title in Batsford''s highly popular Poetry Anthology series, and is the perfect bedside companion for late night reading or morning meditation.
£20.00
Everyman English Romantic Poets
'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William WordsworthNo generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispensable volume, Sir Jonathan Bate - prizewinning biographer of Wordsworth, Keats and John Clare - brings together the most loved poems of the age, together with many forgotten gems. Alongside classics such as Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' and 'Frost at Midnight', the odes of Keats and generous selections from Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude, the reader will discover the wit of Byron, the wildness of Blake, the passion of Shelley, a wealth of nature poems by Clare, and the distinctive voices of women Romantics such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth and Letitia Landon.
£11.40
Deep Vellum Publishing Something Missing From This World
Book SynopsisA bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices. Ten years have passed since 2014 and the seventy-fourth genocide of the Yazidis, a people who have faced ongoing persecution, displacement, and ethnic cleansing from their ancestral lands in the Kurdish regions. In the wake of this genocidal violence, new poetic voices have emerged in university campuses and IDP camps along the borders of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, as well as from across the Yazidi diaspora. With globalizing forces compounding the erasure of their culture and traditions, the Yazidi poets in this multilingual anthology firmly stand their ground, their art a testament to Yazidi resistance and presence. This anthology joins in the poetic tradition of the Yazidis, which has historically preserved and documented instances of their traditions, dispossessions, and erasures. It is its own act of witnessing to recount the 2014 genocide for future generations. Translated from both Ar
£14.24
Random House USA Inc Uyghur Poems
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented collection of poems spanning the rich two-thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people of Central Asia. EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY POCKET POETS.The Uyghurs have a long and glorious history of poetry, dating from the oral epics of the second century BCE through the elegant love poetry of the medieval period and up to the present moment—and much of it has never before been translated into English. Uyghur poetry reflects the magnificent natural landscapes at the heart of the Silk Road region, with its endless steppes, soaring mountain ranges, and vast deserts, as well as its turbulent history. Turkic, Sufi, and Persian influences have shaped the poetic tradition over the centuries, and more recently the modernism of the twentieth century left its mark as well. In the face of the systematic persecution of the Uyghurs in China today, which has driven many of their poets into exile, Uyghur Poems is not only a remarkable one-volume
£15.75
Oxford University Press Elegies of Chu
Book SynopsisElegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic spells and wandering spirits, they present an alternative face of early Chinese culture; one that does not align with orthodox Confucianism. This translation employs literary English devices in order to emphasise the original structure of these Chinese poems. It also examines the extraordinarily vivid diction of the source texts, including of onomatopoeia, ornate descriptions, exotic flowers, dramatic landscapes, metaphors and startling similes. This translation will be based on the original anthology compiled in the Han dynasty by Wang Yi (2nd century CE), and contains a selection of poems that were collected from the 3rd century BCE through the Han dynasty. The anthology provides readers with an understanding of Chinese literature and its evolution from free-spirited, mythico-religious songs to the more formal, polished style of the Han court.Trade ReviewThe harmony of erudition and elegance of Williams' renditions will allow his translation to become the standard English version of the Chuci text for years to come. * William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction A Note on the Translation Select Bibliography Timeline 1: Sublimating Sorrow (Li sao) 2: Nine Phases 3: Nine Songs 4: Heavenly Questions 5: Nine Avowals 6: Far Roaming 7: Divination 8: Fisherman 9: Summons to the Recluse 10: Summons to the Soul 11: Nine Longings 12: Seven Remonstrances 13: Nine Threnodies 14: Lamenting Time's Fate 15: Rueful Oath 16: Greater Summons 17: Nine Yearnings Explanatory Notes Index
£11.69
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review: A WB Yeats Special Issue:
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£9.49
Broadview Press Ltd Nine Medieval Romances of Magic: Re-Rhymed in
Book SynopsisIn this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.Trade Review“The fairy legends of medieval Britain are at the very heart of romance: lightly touched, shimmering with suggestion, as hard to catch in their rhythmic dance as the elves glimpsed at twilight. They deal with otherworld lovers, enchanted hags, magic trees and magic animals, strange abductions and bold rescues. Yet they have never been well-known except to scholars, for the Middle English and Scots in which they are written is difficult enough to keep readers at bay, and in prose translation they lose much of their charm. Marijane Osborn’s rendition of nine of the best of them into modern English verse saves the situation, and opens the poems up to the wider audience they deserve. Her poetry pulses with life, like the originals, and her introductions to each poem set the originals in context with impeccable scholarship.” — Thomas Shippey, Professor Emeritus, Saint Louis University“With characteristic erudition, wit, and grace, Professor Osborn both contextualizes and makes accessible one familiar and eight previously remote and seldom-read medieval romances. Even Chaucer’s Herry Bailey will find no ‘drasty rymyng’ here. Instead, readers will be pleased to make the acquaintance of John Gower and Thomas Chestre as well as the five anonymous authors presented so well in these pages.” — Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1The Tale of Florent (John Gower)CHAPTER 2 The Wife of Bath’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)CHAPTER 3 Thomas of Erceldoune CHAPTER 4 Sir Orfeo CHAPTER 5 Sir Launfal (Thomas Chestre)CHAPTER 6 Sir Thopas (Geoffrey Chaucer)CHAPTER 7 Emaré CHAPTER 8 Sir Gowther CHAPTER 9 Floris and Blancheflour APPENDIX ATwo Additional Tales Sir Libeaus and the Lamia Tam Lin APPENDIX BHearing the Music of the Text:A Justification for Translating Metrical Romances into VerseBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
£29.66
Pan Macmillan Poetry Prescription Inspiration
Book SynopsisDeborah Alma is a UK poet and editor. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with women's groups and with children in schools. From 2012 she was the Emergency Poet offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance. She co-founded the world's first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2019 and in June 2024 opened a second Poetry Pharmacy inside the Lush Spa on Oxford Street.She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry anthology, #Me Too rallying against sexual harassment- a women's poetry anthology, Ten Poems of Happiness from Candlestick Press, The National Trust Book of Nature Poems and Poetry Projects to Make and Do, and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands-Poems from the Heart of the NHS. She is the editor of the Poetry Prescription series.
£8.54
Renard Press Ltd All that Remains
Book SynopsisHouse clearances, charity shops, jumble sales and skipsThe significance of everyday possessions, heightened by absenceIf objects could talk of the dead, what would they say?Taking in its sights the significance of everyday possessions',All that Remainsis a powerful and poignant collection resulting from a collaboration between disciplines of art.Featuring ten beautiful full-page paintings, interwoven with poems, it forces us to consider what we leave behind in the everyday items we have amassed.
£11.48
Harvard University Press Latin Pastoral Poetry
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£25.46
Profile Books Ltd Dog Poems
Book SynopsisSince prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection every day. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most bountiful muses, as they bark, yip, hunt, fetch, growl and slumber, reflecting back at us our most heartfelt tenderness and often rewarding us with unconditional love we scarcely deserve. Dog Poems offers a litter of verses in celebration of our most faithful companions by some of the greatest poets of all time.Trade ReviewIdeal to tuck into a bag, or to read on the bus or train. It's a volume to consume at a sitting, as I did, or to dip into now and again. To the true dog lover, it will give years of pleasure. * Dogs Monthly *The sweet, small collection Dog Poems should be slipped into every dog-lover's Christmas stocking. * Daily Mail *This diverse collection is a celebration of our most faithful companions and illustrates what productive muses dogs have been, to poets in particular. * Your Dog *
£9.49
Little, Brown & Company Coming to Age
Book SynopsisThis exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life.At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers. Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years.Those later years can be many things: a time of harvesting, of gathering together the various strands of the past and weaving them into a rich fabric. They can also be a new beginning, an exploration of the unknown. We speak of growing old. And indeed, as we too often forget, aging is growing, growing into a new stage of life, one that can be a fulfillment of all that has come before.To everything there is a season. Poetry speaks to them all. Just as we read newspapers for news of the world, we read poetry for news of ourselves. Poets, particularly those who have lived and written into old age, have much to tell us. Bringing together a range of voices both present and past, from Emily Dickinson and W. H. Auden to Louise Gluck and Li-Young Lee, Coming to Age reveals new truths, offers spiritual sustenance, and reminds us of what we already know but may have forgotten, illuminating the profound beauty and significance of commonplace moments that become more precious and radiant as we grow older.
£18.00
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Poems to Learn by Heart
Book Synopsis'Paths of glory', 'Theirs not to reason why', 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep', 'A handful of dust', 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'.___________'Glorious' – Tribune'Superb' – The Good Book Guide ___________These and many others are famous lines of poetry that often occur in everyday speech. But do you know the rest of the verse, or even the rest of the poem?An anthology to warm the coldest heart or charm the least romantic soul, this is a collection of poems (or in some cases, extracts) that are not only memorable, but lend themselves to being learned by heart.This is the perfect book for anyone with even the vaguest interest in poetry, providing a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved lines remembered from earlier days.Trade ReviewGuaranteed to warm the heart and inspire romance... the perfect book for anyone with even the vaguest interest in poetry and a wonderful opportunity to revisit those much-loved, half-remembered lines from days gone by. * Lancashire Evening Post *Glorious * Tribune *Superb * The Good Book Guide *
£8.54
Faber & Faber By Heart 101 Poems To Remember
Book SynopsisWhat has happened to the lost art of memorising poems? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language ''by heart''? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected 101 poems are both personal favourites and particularly well-suited to the method Hughes demonstrates. Spanning four centuries, ranging from Shakespeare and Keats through to Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney, By Heart offers the reader a ''mental gymnasium'' in which the memory can be exercised and trained in the most pleasurable way. Some poems will be more of a challenge than others, but all will be treasured once they have become part of the memory bank.This edition is part of a series of anthologies edited by poets such as Don Paterson and Simon Armitage and features an attractive new design to complement an anthology of cl
£9.49
Oxford University Press The AngloSaxon World An Anthology Oxford Worlds
Book SynopsisBeowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had become Christians, to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilization. Kevin Crossley-Holland places poems and prose in context with his skilful interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon world; his translations have been widely acclaimed, and of Beowulf the poet Charles Causley has written, ''the poem has at last found its translator''. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Table of ContentsIncludes: The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Beowulf; The Battle of Malden; and other poems, prose passages, tracts, and sermons
£7.59
Oxford University Press The Tale of Sinuhe
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewClassicists interested in the development of ancient lyric and epic will find plenty to enjoy in Parkinson's elegant and subtle collection of translations of the principal Egyptian literary texts dating to the period known as the Middle Kingdom ... His beautiful translations and thorough, informative yet unobtrusive commentaries work together to convey strongly the poetic qualities of the Egyptian originals ... Parkinson has produced a book of lasting value here, whose high quality and easy yet authoritative presentation will make these too-long-obscure poems accessible to a wider audience in comparative literary studies, and (I hope) beyond. * Dominic Montserrat, The Classical Review *
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Is That the New Moon
Book SynopsisA wonderful anthology of poems by women poets, collected by WENDY COPE.Collected by one of Britain's foremost poets, Is that the New Moon? is an exciting mix of styles and genres by leading women poets including: Grace Nichols, Frances Horovitz, Jenny Joseph, Wendy Cope, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood.This stunning anthology of poems has been specially compiled with teenage girls in mind. The collection also has much to offer to and will be enjoyed by teenage boys and adults, too.Vibrant, funny, tender, sad and moving poems from the leading women poets of our time.Trade ReviewIn an ideal world once she turns 13 every young woman would receive a copy of Is That The New Moon? Books for Keeps (January 2003) In its reissued form, this wonderful anthology should be a handbook for all adolescent girls. The poems Wendy Cope has selected, all by women, are exciting, funny and tender, providing reassurance and understanding of the chequered path of growing up. Guardian An exceptionally good selection of women’s poetry.The Listener An essential addition to your poetry collection.The English Magazine A most exciting choice of poetry… Women’s attitudes to themselves, and to men, their feelings, how girls react to different things are all explored and celebrated in this brilliant anthology.Julia Eccleshare
£6.99
HarperCollins Publishers AQA Poetry Anthology Love and Relationships
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: GCSE Grade 9-1Subject: EnglishSuitable for the 2025 examsComplete coverage of the GCSE grade 9-1 courseRevision that Sticks! Collins AQA GCSE Grade 9-1 Poetry Anthology Love and Relationships Revision Guide uses a revision method that really works: repeated practice throughout.This revision guide contains clear and concise revision notes for every topic covered in the curriculum, plus five practice opportunities to ensure the best results.Includes:quick tests to check understandingend-of-topic practice questionstopic review questions later in the bookmixed practice questions at the end of the bookfree Q&A flashcards to download onlinean ebook version of the revision guide
£7.48
HarperCollins Publishers We British The Poetry of a People
Book Synopsis‘This book includes some of the greatest of our poetry. I hope that it adds up to a new way of thinking about who we have been, and who we are now.’Trade Review‘Andrew Marr’s triumphant We British: The Poetry of a People is not just an anthology but a history of Great Britain seen through the lens of poetry. It begins in the year 657 with the Northumbrian poet Caedmon, and takes us up to the present day. This book is a labour of love, written from the heart, but also discerning and well-judged. Every school kid in the country should be given a free copy of this book’ PAULA BYRNE ‘This is the story of Britain told through the country’s verse. Chatty, personable and unafraid of the canon’ New Statesman ‘Impressive, brilliantly exploring the nation’s fascinating poetic landscape. Showcasing a diverse range of great English poetry, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, he allows our past to speak for itself, creating a new national epic out of the great tradition of verse’ Cambridge News ‘A big, brave project’ Sunday Times
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers AQA Poetry Anthology Power and Conflict Workbook
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: GCSE Grade 9-1Subject: English LiteratureSuitable for the 2024 examsTargeted practice questions covering your GCSE grade 9-1 power and conflict anthologyOur Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology GCSE Grade 9-1 workbook has everything you need to put your skills to the test and score top marks on your GCSE Grade 9-1 English Literature exam! Prepare for your exam in a snap with this new GCSE Grade 9-1 Snap Revision Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Workbook from Collins. Full of questions on language, structure, themes and context in a clear and easy-to-use format with answers included you'll get plenty of practice. With exam-style questions you can plan and write your essay responses to be completely prepared for your AQA exam. Perfect to use alongside the GCSE Grade 9-1 Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology Snap Revision Guide for all the key information you need to practise and pass.
£7.48
HarperCollins Publishers Rumi Hidden Music
Book SynopsisA breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world’s most loved mystical teachers and bestselling poets. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with paintings and Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift.Trade ReviewFrom Hidden Music:My love, you are closer to me than myself,You shine through my eyes.Your light is brighter than the moon.Step into the gardenSo all the flowers, even the tall poplarCan kneel before your beauty.Let your voice silence the lilyFamous for its hundred tongues.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Daughters of Latin America
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A significant collection of Latine women voices across five centuries.… Guzmán succeeds in her presentation of 'a luminous universe of texts that navigate across time and space, genre, styles, and traditions,' and the book does indeed contain 'the wisdom, memory, and DNA, or oral traditions more ancient than time itself.'… A fresh, indispensable look at the wide, multicultural world of Latine women writers." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
£21.25
HarperCollins Honey I Love and Other Love Poems
£7.99
Vintage Publishing 52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem
Book SynopsisRuth Padel is a prize-winning poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Zoological Society of London, and first Resident Writer at Somerset House, London. Her collections include Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and more recently Darwin: A Life in Poems, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Highly acclaimed for her nature writing in a book about conservation, Tigers in Red Weather, and her novel, Where the Serpent Lives, she has also published books on contemporary poetry, including 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem and The Poem and the Journey.In 2014, Ruth Padel is the first Writer in Residence at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and is recording her experiences in her blog at http://www.ruthpadel.com/blog/.Trade ReviewRuth Padel combines two major gifts: she is both a distinguished poet and a quite exceptional reader of the poetry of others... The result is a book which opens doors, which bids us share with its author and the poems she has chosen a wealth of insight -- George SteinerShe argues away the idea that contemporary poetry is "difficult": all it needs is a little work and the rewards are great * Sunday Times *A brilliant snapshot of contemporary poetry. Padel writes with incisive intelligence, particularly in her lively and provocative introduction on gender-related power in the poetry world and why poetry has "lost its audience -- Christina Patterson, Director of the Poetry Society * Independent *She chooses her poems with impeccable taste, an anthologist of the very best contemporary poetry * The Times *A great gift for any student or poetry virgin who wonders what all the excitement is about * Glasgow Herald *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of French Poetry
Book SynopsisThis collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of the time are also represented in sections focusing on such movements as Romanticism, Symbolism, Cubism and Surrealism. Eloquent and inspirational, this rich and exhilarating anthology reveals an era of exceptional vitality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTechnicalitiesSources and AcknowledgmentsRomanticism in FranceAlphonse de Lamartine (1790-1859)Le LacLe VallonMarceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)SouvenirLes Roses de SaadiLa Couronne effeuilléeAlfred de Vigny (1797-1863)La Colère de SamsonLe Mont des OliviersVictor Hugo (1802-85)ExtasePuisque mai tout en fleur...Souvenir de la nuit du 4StellaMes deux fillesDemain, dès l'aube...A VillequierBooz endormiJe suis fait d'ombreFenêtres ouvertesBêtise de la guerreCharles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69)Mon âme est ce lac même...Gerard de Nerval (1808-55)FantaisieVers dorésEl DesdichadoMyrthoAntérosDelficaArtémisAlfred de Musset (1810-57)Une Soirée PerdueA JulieLa Nuit de maiRappelle-toiTheophile Gautier (1811-72)Nous n'irons plus au bois...Sculpteur, cherche avec soin...Le Saut du tremplinCharles Baudelaire (1821-67)/b>CorrespondancesL'AlbatrosLa BeautéLa ChevelureAvec ses vêtements...Une CharogneHarmonie du soirL'Invitation au voyageLa MusiqueSpleen (I)Spleen (III)Les AveuglesA une PassanteLa DestructionLe VoyageRecueillementThe Parnassian MovementLeconte de Lisle (1818-94)Les MontreursMidiLe Coeur de HialmarLe Rêve de jaguarJose-Maria de Heredia (1842-1905)Soir de batailleArianeSur le Pont-VieuxLes ConquérantsLa SiesteSoleil couchantStephane Mallarme (1842-98)Les FenêtresBrise marineL'Après-midi d'un fauneSaintePetit Air IQuand l'ombre menaça...Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui...Autre EventailLe Tombeau d'Edgar PoeSes purs ongles...Le Démon de l'analogieCharles Cros (1842-88)LendemainHiéroglypheSonnet (A travers la forêt...)PhantasmaSonnet (J'ai bâti dans ma fantaisie...)Paul Verlaine (1844-96)Mon Rêve familierEffet de nuitSoleils couchantsClair de luneEn sourdineColloque sentimentalIl pleure dans mon coeur...Dans l'interminable...Les chères mains qui furent miennes...Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit...Je ne sais pourquoi...Art poétiqueTristan Corbiere (1845-75)Le CrapaudA une CamaradeSonnet de nuitPaysage mauvaisLitanie du SommeilPetite Mort pour rireEpitapheComte de Lautreamont (1846-70)Chants de Maldoror:Chant II, strophe 13 (extract)Chant IV, strophe 6 (extract)Germain Noveau (1851-1920)Poison perduMendiantsPourrièresArthur Rimbaud (1854-91)A la MusiqueMa BohèmeOraison du soirLe Coeur voléLes Chercheuses de pouxVoyellesLe Bateau ivreMémoireO saisons, ô châteauxAprès le DélugeMatinée d'ivresseVilleAubeMarineNuit de l'EnferAdieuJules Laforgue (1860-87) Complainte des Pianos qu'on entend dans les quartiers aisésComplainte des Nostalgies préhistoriquesComplainte du Roi de ThuléComplainte sur certains Temps déplacésPierrotsLocutions des PierrotsL'Hiver qui vientDimanchesSolo de luneThe Symbolist MovementEmile Verhaeren (1855-1916) Le MoulinChanson de fouLes UsinesLes HorlogesLes Heures clairesUn SoirMaurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) TentationsHôpitalTrois princesses m'ont embrassé...Jean Moreas (1856-1936) Le SocleLa PrisonnièreJulie aux yeux d'enfantSaint-Pol Roux (1861-1940) GolgothaAlouettesLa Carafe d'eau pureA Renewal of Lyricism Paul-Jean Toulet (1867-1920) ContrerimesChanson: Le Temps d'AdonisCople CVIIFrancis Jammes (1868-1938) J'aime dans les temps...Prière pour aller au Paradis avec les ânesLes cinq Mystères douloureuxIl va neigerPaul Fort (1872-1960) Complainte du Roi et de la ReineLa grande IvresseLa Grenouille bleueL'EcureuilAnna, Comtesse de Noailles (1876-1933) L'EmprienteC'est après les moments...Paul Claudel (1868-1955) Deuxième Ode: L'Esprit et l'Eau (extract)Quatrième Ode: La Muse qui est la Grâce (first part)BalladeCharles Peguy (1873-1914)La Nuit (extract)Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milocz (1877-1939) Quand elle viendra...Aux sons d'une musique...Cantique de la connaissance (opening and closing sections)Paul Valery (1871-1945) La FileuseLe Bois amicalAu plataneL'AbeilleLes PasL'InsinuantLes GrenadesLe Cimetière marinVictor Segalen (1878-1919) Les trois Hymnes primitifsPierre musicaleOrdre au soleilEloge du jadeNom cachéCubism, cosmopolitanism and modernism Leon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947)Sur le trottoir tout gras...La rampe s'allume...La GarePostfaceMax Jacob (1876-1944) La GuerreDans la forêt silencieuseRuses du Démon pour ravoir sa proieEtablissement d'une communauté au BrésilAoût 39Présence de DieuGuillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) ZoneLe pont MirabeauL'Emigrant de Landor RoadLe brasierNuit rhénaneLiensFêteViséeLa jolie rousseBlaise Cendrars (1887-1961) Prose du Transsibérien et la petite Jeanne de France (3 extracts)ContrastesConstructionOrionMississippiAubePierre Reverdy (1889-1960)Après le BalToujours lèAubergeNomadeCouloirChauffage centralDrameLes Mots qu'on échangeXChair viveCatherine Pozzi (1882-1934) AveNyxScopolamineJules Supervielle (1884-1960) MontévidéoHaute merDans la forêt sans heuresLes PoissonsTristesse de DieuNuit en moi...Plein Ciel1940Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) Eloges II & XIVAnabase VIIExil IINeiges IVVents: Chant II, iPierre-Jean Jouve (1887-1976) Vallée de larmesVrai CorpsL'Oeil et la chevelureLamentations au cerfLa Femme et la terreJe suis succession furieuse...AnglesA soi-mêmeSurrealism Andre Breton (1896-1966) TournesolVigilanceL'Union libreSur la route de San RomanoTristan Tzara (1896-1963) La grande complainte de mon obscurité troisLe Mort de Guillaume ApollinaireSur une ride du soleilVoltPhilippe Soupault (1897- ) DimanceLa grande Mélancholie d'une avenueSay it with MusicStumblingPaul Eluard (1895-1952) L'AmoreuseLa courbe de tes yeux...La terre est bleue...Le front aux vitres...A perte de vue dans le sens de mon corpsTu te lèvesLa victoire de GuernicaFaire vivreLa Mort l'Amour la VieLouis Aragon (1897-1982) Poème è crier dans les ruinesElsa au miroirLes lilas et les rosesBallade de celui qui chanta dans les supplicesRobert Desnos (1900-1945) J'ai tant rêvé de toiLa Voix de Robert DesnosDestinée arbitraireDésespoir du soleilMi-RouteLe ZèbreLe PaysageJacques Prevert (1900-1977) Le CancreFamilialeDéjeuner du matinSanguineL'Ordre nouveauBarbaraHenri Michaux (1899-1984) Mes OccupationsCrierEmportez-moiLe grand ViolonClownDragonAprès ma MortPortraits des Meidosems (extracts)Francis Ponge (1899-1988) Les MûresL'OrangeVégétation"Négritude" Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906- ) Femme noireCamp 1940Aime Cesaire (1913- ) N'ayez point pitiéSoleil serpentPerditionProphétieTam-tam IOde á la GuinéeAndre Frenaud (1907- ) NaissanceMaison à vendreLes Rois MagesPrésence réelleAssèchement de la plaieRene Char (1907-1988) ArtineMigrationCommune Présence IIChant du refusLes premiers instantsA ***L'inoffensifFront de la roseIndex of First Lines
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Penguin Books Ltd Renaissance Women Poets Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisSocial convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting their poems in the context of their history and culture. Whitney's poems offer the only glimpse into her life, express a concern for women's lack of social and economic power, and powerfully evoke sixteenth-century London. Sidney produced potent translations of Petrarch's works and the Psalms, as well as original verse. Lanyer wrote poems that advocate and praise female virtue and Christian piety, but reflect a desire for an idealized, classless world. The strong and original voices of these three women-each from different social, cultural, and historical strata-demonstrate the emergence of a new female identity during the RenTable of ContentsEdited by Danielle ClarkeAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFurther ReadingTable of DatesA Note on the TextsIsabella Whitneyfrom A SWEET NOSGAYTo the worshipfull and right vertuous yong Gentylman, George Mainwaring Esquier...The Auctor to the ReaderCertain familier Epistles and friendly Letters by the Auctor: with RepliesTo her Brother. G.W.To her Brother. B. W.A modest meane for Maides... to two of her yonger Sisters servinge in LondonTo her Sister Misteris. A.B.To her CosenA carefull complaynt by the unfortunate AuctorIS. W. to C.B. in bewalylynge her mishappesTo my Friend Master T.L. whose good nature I see abusdeIS W. beyng wery of wrtyng, sendeth this for AnswereThe Auchtour (though loth to leave the Citie) upon her Friendes procurement, is constrained to departe...and maketh her Wyll and Testament...A comunication which the Auctor had to London, before she made her WyllThe maner of her Wyll, and what she left to London: and all those in it: at her departing***THE COPY OF A LETTER, lately written in meeter, by a yonge Gentilwoman: to her unconstant Lover...I.W. To her unconstant LoverThe admonition by the Auctor, to all yong Gentilwomen: And to al other Maids being in Love***The lamentation of a Gentilwoman upon the death of her late deceased frend William Gruffith Gent.Mary Sidney, Countess of PembrokeTHE SIDNEY PSALTER"Even now that Care"To the Angell spirit of the most excellent Sir Phillip SidneyThe Psalmes of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke***A Dialogue betweene two shepheards, Thenot, and Piers, in praise of Astrea...***THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH TRANSLATED OUT OF ITALIAN BY THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROOKEThe first chapterThe second chapterAemilia LanyerSALVE DEUS REX JUDAEORUMTo the Queenes most Excellent MajestieTo all vertuous Ladies in generallThe Authors Dreame to the Ladie Marie, the Countesse Dowager of PembrookeTo the Ladie Lucie, Countesse of BedfordTo the Ladie Margaret, Countesse Dowager of CumberlandTo the Ladie Anne, Countesse of DorcetTo the Vertuous ReaderSalve Deus Rex JudaeorumThe Description of Cooke-hamAbbreviations and Short Titles Used in the Notes and Textual ApparatusNotesTextual Apparatus
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Penguin Classics
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of English Verse
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English
Book SynopsisPaula Burnett was born in 1942 in Chelmsford, and was educated at Oxford University. She is the author of Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics, among many other publications. Her most recent book presents her international research project to promote minority literatures, produced in collaboration with universities in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain. She teaches postcolonial literature and creative writing at Brunel University, London.
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Penguin Books Ltd Lyrical Ballads Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisTwenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the books original impact. In these poemsincluding Wordsworths Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and Coleridges The Rime of the Ancyent Marinerethe two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.
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Penguin Books Ltd Penguins Poems for Life
Book SynopsisTaking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the seven ages of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration.Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes when only a poem will do.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Fourth
Book SynopsisA new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, writes Gerald Moore, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama. Now revised and expanded, this comprehensive anthology features the work of ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries; thirty-one of the poets appear here for the first time. War songs, satires, and political protests jostle with poems about love, nature, and the surprises of life, offering a rich and wide-ranging body of creative work.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 distinguishTrade Review"Freshness, passion, spontaneity, sensuousness are not common qualities in poetry today . . . but they are to be found in abundance among African poets of the last few decades." -The Daily Telegraph, London "Africa is producing some of the most original and exciting poetry now being written anywhere in the world." -Edward Blishen
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Penguin Books Ltd Penguins Poems for Love
Book SynopsisHere are poems to take you on a journey from the ''suddenly'' of love at first sight to the ''truly, madly, deeply'' of infatuation and on to the ''eternally'' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts. Bringing together the greatest love poetry from around the world and through the ages, ranging from W. H. Auden to William Shakespeare, John Donne to Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning to Roger McGough, this new anthology will delight, comfort and inspire anyone who has ever tasted love - in any of its forms.
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Penguin Books Ltd The First Poems in English Penguin Classics
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Elder Edda
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Homeric Hymns
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Song of Roland
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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Penguin Books Ltd Li Po and Tu Fu Poems
Book SynopsisThe poems of two of China’s most influential classical poets: Tu Fu, called “China’s Shakespeare” (BBC), and Li Po, the subject of Ha Jin’s The Banished Immortal and “China’s most beloved poet” (The New Yorker) A Penguin ClassicLi Po (AD 701–62) and Tu Fu (AD 712–70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty complement each other so well that they often came to be spoken ofTable of ContentsLi Po and Tu FuAcknowledgmentsPronounciation of Chinese Words and NamesNote on the Chinese CalligraphyIntroduction1. "Li-Tu"2. The Background to their Times3. Li Po4. Tu Fu5. The Background to T'ang Poetry: The Beginnings: The 'Book of Odes', the Language and Script6. The Background to T'ang Poetry: The Ch'u Tz'u7. The Background to T'ang Poetry: The Ballads and the Principles of Chinese Syllabic Metre8. A Demonstration by Ballad9. The Approach to Translation in this Book10. The Tones and the 'Chinese Sonnet'11. Reading the Poems in EnglishLi PoTu FuList of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Penguin Books Ltd Hesiod and Theognis Theogony Works and Days and
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Poem of the Cid Dual Language Edition Penguin
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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Penguin Books Ltd The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices Publick
Book SynopsisThis masterpiece of eighteenth-century British satire sparked great social controversy by rejecting a positive view of human nature and arguing the necessity of vice as the foundation of an emerging capitalist economy.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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Penguin Books Ltd The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse
Book SynopsisDaniel Karlin is Professor of English Literature at University College London. He is co-editor, with John Woolford, of 'The Poems of Browning' and editor of the selection of Browning's poetry published in the Penguin Poetry Library.
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Penguin Books Ltd Satires and Epistles of Horace and Satires of
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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Penguin Publishing Group Overtime Selected Poems Penguin Poets
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 Americanone 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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