Poetry Books

Book SynopsisStill little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafez and Jami – the great lyric and didactic poets of medieval Persia – are all represented in this selection of translations spanning almost two hundred and fifty years.

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Book SynopsisIn the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov. However, when Sonya's father, Professor Serebryakov, suddenly returns with his restless, alluring, new wife, declaring his intention to sell the house, the polite façades crumble and long-repressed feelings start to emerge with devastating consequences. Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson's stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, Uncle Vanya, is a portrayal of life at the turn of the twentieth century, full of tumultuous frustration, dark humour and hidden passions. It premiered at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in January 2020, directed by Ian Rickson. A film of the production, made by Sonia Friedman Productions/Angelica Films and shot on the stage of the Harold Pinter Theatre after the West End run was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was screened on BBC Four and went on to win the Theatre Award in the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021.Trade Review'[Conor McPherson's adaptation is] perfectly weighted... does not radically reinvent or revolutionise Chekov's 19th-century story. It returns us to the great, mournful spirit of Chekhov's tale about unrequited love, ageing and disappointment in middle-age, while giving it a sleeker, modern beat. McPherson's script has a stripped, vivid simplicity which quickens the pace of the drama... Every character is fully realised, including the ancillary roles that bring more than comic relief... a perfect tragicomedy' * Guardian *'As accessible as a TV drama, without ever betraying the great, melancholy, insightful soul that has made the play last for as long as it has. It is radical and revelatory without ever being gimmicky or insensitive… McPherson pulls off a feat of magical reinvention, and allows us to see the play anew' * WhatsOnStage *'Succeeds resoundingly in making the turn-of-the-20th-century cares of the original resonate today… the contemporary relevance is startling' * The Arts Desk *'Nobody quite walks the tightrope between comedy and tragedy with the aplomb of Chekhov… in McPherson's version, more than any others I've seen, the women get to deliver the emotional gut-punches that balance the humour' * Broadway World *'McPherson's new adaptation feels almost impossibly contemporary in the way it packs in so much lust, wit, rage and regret' * The Times *'A Vanya for our times' * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisKefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the Axis occupying forces. Shunned by the locals at first, he proves to be civilised, humorous – and a consummate musician. The captain is soon thrown together with Dr Iannis's strong-willed and beautiful daughter, Pelagia, who discovers all of the complexities of love, and how it can blossom in the most unexpected and profound way. Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, premiered on tour of the UK in 2019, before transferring to London's West End.Trade Review'A vivid and tumbling dramatic presence… real riches and depths are to be found, as it highlights the coarsening and toughening effects of life in wartime, balanced against an emotive love story' * Evening Standard *'A magical, moving immersion in Louis de Bernières' exquisite story that so many of us know and love' * A Younger Theatre *'Manages to both stay faithful to the original and inject it with freshness… much of the emotional drama comes from spectacle, song, movement and music and while this means that the weighty, winding narrative of the book is simplified, it feels more streamlined' * Guardian *'A fleet, muscular retelling. Liable to bring a lump to the throat' * Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisA darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, Teenage Dick reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his discontent. Picked on because of his disability (as well as his sometimes creepily Shakespearean way of speaking), Richard is determined to have his revenge and make his name by becoming president of the senior class. But like all teenagers, and all despots, he is faced with the hardest question of all: is it better to be loved, or feared? 'Retells Shakespeare with a much-needed urgency, providing an arch reminder that the voices of the disabled have often been ignored, terrorised or shouted down from the earliest possibility... Lew's writing neatly blends Shakespearean rhetoric with everyday speech... sharp and highly enjoyable... more plays of this calibre, telling the stories they do, are very much needed and welcome to explore our own ingloriousness' - Broadway WorldTrade Review'Retells Shakespeare with a much-needed urgency, providing an arch reminder that the voices of the disabled have often been ignored, terrorised or shouted down from the earliest possibility... Lew's writing neatly blends Shakespearean rhetoric with everyday speech... sharp and highly enjoyable... more plays of this calibre, telling the stories they do, are very much needed and welcome to explore our own ingloriousness' Broadway World; 'Bursting onto the stage and bringing a hundred innuendos with it, Mike Lew's vibrant play mashes up teen films based on Shakespeare, (think 10 Things I Hate About You), and Richard III to present a potent and relevant play about our times and power... riffs beautifully from Shakespeare's original, with enough mashing up of the verse to make the audience laugh out loud at the tributes to the Bard. But, more importantly, it is a play for today' BritishTheatre.com; 'A smart, probing play... sinks a cunning, shining dagger into an author who’s buried in centuries of history and glory' Time Out; 'A raggedly brilliant evening... both deals in and subverts the dizzy, hyper-tense energy that drives American school dramas... boldly challenges the audience' Evening Standard; 'This is not just muscular writing by Mr Lew; it also has the ping of absolute authenticity' New York Times; '[A] sharp modern-day reinvention' Time Out (New York)

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Book Synopsis''We that are true lovers run into strange capers.''Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It''s capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the play, upholding it as a crowning expression of the Elizabethan Renaissance while underscoring its appeal to twenty-first century readers as Shakespeare''s most intrepid exploration of gender, sexuality, and the environment. Its double-cross-dressed heroine dominates the plot (and their love interest Orlando) to conduct a masterclass in gender fluidity. The melancholic Jaques unmasks the fundamental theatricality of existence and questions humanity''s prerogative to displace and harm other species. Through the clown Touchstone, the comedy tests the possibility that we might laugh ourselves wise, especially when we learn to laugh at ourselves. In the Forest of Arden, we encounter Shakespeare''s most beguiling vision of the natural world as a real

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Book SynopsisSusannah Dickey is a poet and novelist from Derry and the author of four pamphlets, I had some very slight concerns (2017), genuine human values (2018), bloodthirsty for marriage (2020) and Oh! (2022). Her poems have been published in The Poetry Review, The TLS, Poetry London, and Poetry Ireland Review, amongst others. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, a prize granted for a collection by poets under the age of thirty. Susannah is the author of two novels, Tennis Lessons (2020), and Common Decency (2022), both published by Doubleday UK and Penguin Ireland.Trade ReviewA poet of tremendous imaginative range, artistic vision, and accomplishment -- Kayo Chingonyi, author of A Blood ConditionSusannah Dickey’s bloodthirsty for marriage made me think of Alice Notley in its urgency and playfulness. But Dickey is more surreal, more vivid; there are more dead gerbils. These are poems that scorch the earth with their originality and then write out of the ashes. -- Will HarrisA rare talent, and certainly one to watch. * The Sunday Times *Using the real-life case of an unidentified woman’s body found in Norway as a jumping off point, this brilliantly realised first collection by the novelist Susannah Dickey is a multilayered investigation into the ethics of the true crime genre * The Guardian *[ISDAL pushes] the boundary of how we might think about form and genre . . . Dickey brings a singular voice and a unique complexity to her investigation -- Tara Bergin * PN Review *

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Book SynopsisTale of Ahmed is a gripping fictional account of the dangerous journey of a teenage boy, Ahmed, who travels from Afghanistan, across the Middle East and Europe, to seek refuge in England.Author Henry Cockburn lives at one end of a long trail stretching from Afghanistan to the southeast coast of England. His home in Kent is close to where small, frail boats arrive bringing refugees on the last lap of their 6,000-mile journey from Kabul and the Hindu Kush. Meeting and talking with refugees, Henry became aware that even they themselves rarely understand the heroic nature of their odyssey. The journey's never-ending risks have become second nature to them. For most other people, they are simply unknown. Correcting such misperceptions is one of the objectives of this powerful story.Written in the form of an epic poem and richly illustrated by the author, Tale of Ahmed describes how its eponymous hero gets help from fellow travelers an

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Book Synopsis'Nothing is any longer one thing.' From a teenage encounter with Elizabeth I, through infatuations, voyages and even a change of gender, Orlando lives out five centuries of life and love before they finally find the courage to truly be themselves. Neil Bartlett's sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's famous fantasy finds powerful contemporary relevance in her vision of equal rights to love for bodies of every kind – and brings it to life on the stage with a kaleidoscope of theatrical styles, overseen by the haunting figure of Woolf herself. It premiered at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End in November 2022, in a production directed by Michael Grandage and starring Emma Corrin in the title role. Written for a diverse ensemble of nine or more actors, this adaptation will appeal to any theatre or company looking to entertain their audiences with a bold new take on this iconic tale of love and transformation.Trade Review'Radiates gleeful intelligence, rampaging heart and tremendous fun. It couldn't feel more timely, and it's glorious' * Guardian *'Theatre to make the heart leap... this vivid, glittering drama achieves not just the improbable, but the almost impossible: it captures the brilliance of Woolf's mind, the daring of her transgressive vision and the lush gorgeousness of her prose, and refracts it on the stage in an exquisite rainbow of prismatic colour... a play that is at once a delectable queer fantasia and a freewheeling intellectual joyride through the intertwined complexities of life, literature, identity and the creative process... a blazing beacon to progress, to possibility, to freedom and the power of imagination' * The Stage *'Neil Bartlett's fleet-footed, wildly imaginative but wonderfully disciplined adaption shines literal and metaphorical light on contemporary ideas of identity... an outstandingly original theatrical pleasure' * Variety *'Joyful and groundbreaking... a triumph' * Independent *'Neil Bartlett's adaptation captures all [the novel's] sexiness and spirit... it's splendid in every sense: passionate, camp as Christmas and as warmly celebratory, too' * iNews *'An adaptation full of joy and hope and sense of possibility for the future' * WhatsOnStage *'Neil Bartlett's funny but moving adaptation... a frisky romp, wittily engaging with today's debate about gender fluidity... a joyous ode to freedom' * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisPoetic prose meditations translated superbly into English. Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during her lifetime, as mornings and moosgreen I. Step to the window is an elliptical and, if at times cryptic, deeply personal, playful, and highly poetic collection of experiences, memories, dreams, desires, fears, visions, observations, and peregrinations through landscapes both real and imagined. The volume bears witness to her unique late lyrical style of pyrotechnical cut-up. Among many others, her beloved Derrida, Duchamp, Hölderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayröcker bravely makes her way through infirmity, old age, and loneliness, prolonging her time as a prolific writer as much as possible.

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Book SynopsisNew Weather was Paul Muldoon''s first book of poems. When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as ''unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years''. While the promise has been amply fulfilled, this new paperback edition gives Muldoon''s many, more recent admirers the opportunity to see what a versatile and substantial artist he was from the outset.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form and meaning, between private experience and public expression. No Art is an exhilarating argument both with America and with poetry itself, in which online slang is juxtaposed with academic idiom, philosophy collides with advertising, and the language of medicine and the military is overlaid with echoes of Whitman and Keats. Here, clichés are cracked open and made new, made strange, and formal experiments disclose new possibilities of thought and feeling. No Art confirms Ben Lerner as one of the most searching and ambitious poets working today.Trade ReviewBen Lerner's poems are remarkable for their graceful, trenchant exploration of aesthetics, politics, voice, address, music, and structure. For admirers of Lerner's fiction who are just now coming to his poems, this volume will offer a compelling illustration of how poetry thinks and pleasures distinctly; for those coming to Lerner's writing for the first time altogether, an ardent, adamant, ever-questing poetics awaits you -- Maggie NelsonBen Lerner's poetry, like his prose, is subject to its own agitated brilliance. Many would settle for his quickness and reach but Lerner works in tension with these and resists securing either himself of the reader. The result is poetry of rare immediacy and effect -- Lavinia GreenlawNo Art is a feast comprising form-defining modern prose poems, intellectual ease, and a distinctive style in fusing sound with vivid imagery and structure, humour with sadness -- Charlotte Runcie * Daily Telegraph *I look forward to Ben Lerner's poetry the way I used to anticipate a new record by my favourite band. He can be painfully funny and urgently serious in the same poem, self-excoriating and intellectually generous. For ten years I've gone to his work whenever I need reminding what's still possible, the expanse we have to fill, the lack (of subtlety, of life) we all write against. So many young British poets have already been influenced by his poetry, but No Art makes it available to a wider audience in the UK -- Luke KennardBen Lerner's poems are brilliant. Again and again they decode and recode the daily mysteries. The questing intelligence and ironist's wink are underpinned by a real moral force -- Nick LairdBen Lerner's hilarious, humane poetry is an instrument of phenomenal sensitivity: a telescope through which unforgettable images of the interior and exterior worlds are made visible, in the highest definition -- Oli HazzardLerner is funny and smart, and his high-wire sequences are a pleasure to read -- John McAuliffe * Irish Times *Dealing mostly in intricately patterned sequences and variations [... Lerner's] prose poems allow for moments of grace and insight... There is added colour and weight to Lerner's thought, a more discursive, personal tone, less fractured through formal constraint or interruption, and the increasingly oppressive presence of the future, of ideas and posterity and survival, supply a gravitas and vulnerability which suits his voice and concerns. It bodes well for whatever Ben Lerner does next -- Declan Ryan * TLS *

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Book SynopsisLaura's Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cultural artifacts as a way to engage with longing, vulnerability, and the possibility of liberation. Referencing pop culture artifacts, from hit '90s singles like Selena's Dreaming of You to heroines of cult classic TV and films (Laura Palmer and Variety's Christine), this dynamic collection looks to these iconic touchstones as sites for feminist analysis and intervention. Traveling through dreamscapes, fantasy, and the quotidian, Laura's Desires forges a path away from fear and shame, guiding us towards liberation.

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Book SynopsisEpic poem of survival, following a nameless main character lost in the woods.

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Book SynopsisEileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems and Chelsea Girls. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.

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Book SynopsisCarl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that's based on human memory.

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Book SynopsisTime Cleaves Itself by Jeda Pearl is a sonic meditation on memory, grief, disability, race, empathy and resilience from a Scottish womanof colour navigating belonging and claiming space.

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Book SynopsisTodd Almond is an acclaimed performer, songwriter, and playwright. His recent performance on Broadway in Girl from the North Country was called stunning by The Washington Post and roof-raising, uplifting, and invigorating by Hollywood Reporter. His musical The Odyssey, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics, was hailed as brash, funny and heart-stirring by The New York Times. His theater piece Kansas City Choir Boy was called awesome, slyly punk rock by Rolling Stone.Almond is known for his singular songwriting in addition to his work as an accomplished performer. He recently toured the US in his original musical Kansas City Choir Boy, starring alongside rock icon Courtney Love, and starred in three of his original musicals at the famed Delacorte Theater in Central Park (The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Odyssey). His musical Girlfriend based on the Matthew Sweet album o

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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.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A real landmark publication. . . . In this endlessly rewarding work of scholarship, skill and devotion we find a Bashō not just as he is customarily seen – a philosopher poet of nature – but very much as a man of the world." * RTÉ *"A comprehensive exploration of the writer and man crucial to Japan’s literary history. . . . Fitzsimons’ translations are fresh and unexpected." * Japan Times *Table of ContentsContents Bashō Chronology Introduction THE POEMS Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Index of Poems in Japanese (Romaji) Index of First Lines in Poems in English Index of Names

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Book SynopsisAn astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”?With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. “Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade,” writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, “she is doing what she can to survive.”Trade ReviewPraise for The Hurting KindAn Indie Next Selection for May 2022A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Most Anticipated Book of Poetry” for Spring 2022A Literary Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2022”A Books Are Magic “Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2022”A New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2022"Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize"So grateful am I for Limón's powerfully observant eye. There are many wonderful poems here and a handful of genuine masterpieces . . . The Hurting Kind is packed with quiet celebrations of the quotidian . . . Limón forces herself to confront, again and again in these poems, nature's unwillingness to yield its secrets—it's one of her primary subjects. The seemingly abundant wisdom of the nature world is really a vision of her own searching reflection . . . Limón is great company in the presence of the inchoate, able and willing to stand with her readers before the frightening mysteries and hopeful uncertainties of the everyday."—New York Times Book Review"I can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give me hope, but Limón's poems don't give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope; rather, her hope is hard-earned, even laced with grief or happiness . . . Limón is a master at making a simple idea (that of hindsight, seeing the bright side of things) askew. 'And so I have/two brains now,' she writes. 'Two entirely different brains.' Limón gives us two brains in her poems, too, revealing new ways to view the world."—Victoria Chang, New York Times Magazine"In her sixth collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón seeks to find the intimate connections between the seemingly disparate in the everyday: humans and the natural world, the living and the dead, the intellectual and the spiritual. The collection’s title is apt—it is a testament to the innate power of feeling, whether grief, rage, or tenderness. For Limón, the current Poet Laureate of the United States, who declares herself ‘too sensitive, a weeper… the hurting kind,’ even the seemingly banal facets of our existence deserve not only observation, but also empathy and amazement."—TIME Magazine, 100 Must Read Books of 2022"Limón’s poems are unique for the deep attention they pay to both the world’s wounds and its redemptive beauty. In otherwise dark times, they have the power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires."—The Ezra Klein Show "[Ada Limón] is one of my all-time favorite writers, someone whose work I return to again and again for solace, inspiration, and truth."—Nicole Chung, The Atlantic"For poet Ada Limón, evidence of poetry is everywhere. It connects big ideas—like fear, isolation, even death—with little details—like field sparrows, a box of matches, or 'the body moving / freely.' The award-winning poet's sixth and latest collection, The Hurting Kind, is a testament to the power of such sensitivity . . . The power of attention, Limón conveys, is in finding out just how an individual's experience might fit into the collective experience. But in The Hurting Kind Limón takes her method even further to ask: Isn't wonder enough? . . . Above all, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender. To know that the world is here to both guide us and lead us astray. Toward the end of the long poem, Limón writes: 'I will not stop this reporting of attachments. / There is evidence everywhere.' So don't stop looking. Just be open to what you may find. And know that the world is watching you, too."—NPR"Ada Limón is a bright light in a dark time. Her keen attention to the natural world is only matched by her incredible emotional honesty.... Considering the arc from youthful vibrancy to protective camouflage, Limón tracks the beauty of wisdom as we age. Reconciling the all too human matter of our lives within the spectacle of nature, Limón archives a suspended grace.... The Hurting Kind ... explor[es] the restorative connections between human life and the natural world. The poems reckon with vulnerability and grief in a startling and broken world."—Vanity Fair"In one of Ada Limón's early poems, she asks, 'Shouldn't we make fire out of everyday things?' For the past 16 years, that's exactly what she's done. [She is] fearlessly confessional and technically brilliant."—Washington Post“Again and again in this poetry collection, her sixth, Limón confronts nature’s unwillingness to yield its secrets—it’s one of her primary subjects. The seemingly abundant wisdom of the natural world is really a vision of her own searching reflection. 'Limón looks out her window, walks around her yard, and, like Emily Dickinson, trips over infinities,' our reviewer wrote.”—New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2022""Ada Limón’s sixth and latest collection is a testament to the power of sensitivity. As with her previous award-winning books, The Carrying and Bright Dead Things, these poems are acutely aware of the natural world. And Limón has a knack for acknowledging nature’s little mysteries in order to fully capture its history and abundance. For her, evidence of poetry is everywhere. She connects big ideas—fear, isolation, even death—with little details, like field sparrows, a box of matches or ‘the body moving / freely.’ Above all, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender."—Jeevika Verma, NPR, Books We Love“It’s comforting, amid a stack of thick novels and all the latest cookbooks, to keep a book of short poems to dip into like scripture. This is the latest from the open-hearted Kentucky-based poet Ada Limón, who writes earnestly about love, her Mexican American family, and the wildness of memory.”—CJ Lotz, Garden & Gun, “Best Southern Books of 2022”“In Limón’s newest collection, she writes poems suffused with nostalgia, longing, and grief, divided up by the seasons, writing of nurturing seeds, steadfast love, grief, burial. She writes of joyful wonder and powerful grief. Of getting high and staring up at cherry trees, of earning a cat’s trust, of seeing the neighbors get a tree cut down, all tangled up in stories of emotionally manipulative relationships and family discoveries and what real love looks like. Mainly, she writes about what it’s like to be ‘the hurting kind’ of person—a tender kind of person, sensitive to the pain she sees and the small joys she glimpses out in the world, soft, vulnerable, painfully empathetic. It’s the kind of person I am, and I saw myself so deeply in these poems. Limón’s hit it out of the park once again.”—BookRiot, Best Books of the Year"These poems home in on how grief makes us human . . . [Limón] reminds readers that we are nothing without connection. If you haven't read poetry in a while, this volume might be what you need to reconnect with the form."—Los Angeles Times"Brilliant . . . Throughout is the trademark wonder, and blown-out perceptivity, underscoring Limón's clarion melancholy."—San Francisco Chronicle“The Hurting Kind is a book of living language — and nowhere more than in the way words animate the poems . . . Throughout [Limón’s] work, the language is direct and unadorned while also playful and full of unexpected turns. Something similar is true of The Hurting Kind, which is a quieter book — but no less fierce for being so. . . . When Limón exclaims, in the last line of the poem and the collection, ‘I am asking you to touch me,’ she is writing out of the darkness of the pandemic, but she is also addressing something more universal and profound. What are words worth if they can’t help to bridge the gaps between us? It’s a question many of us are asking as we try to navigate this fallen world."—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times“The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón’s sixth poetry collection, embodies the interconnectedness of survival and surrender . . . Limón’s opus, a poetic sonic composition of observation, shifts between the tense positions of witness and watcher. Rather than end tidily with a conclusion, she leans into actionable hope. How could Limón have anticipated that current history would speak in harmony with The Hurting Kind? Today, more so than when I first read it, a line in the title poem hits me harder and with greater poignancy — ‘Now teach me poetry.’”—Yvonne Conza, Los Angeles Review of Books"Limón responds in her poetry to what she identifies as an ecological imperative to re-describe our relationship to 'nature' in a manner that isn't merely instrumental. The moving personal dramas that her poems detail can never be separated from the landscape in which they occur . . . Consequently, her poetry, which can feel so intimate and self-revealing, is almost constantly political at the same time . . . There are endless things to say about the articulate, complex emotional resonance of the poems in this book. Still, what Limón says about 'a life' is true as well for her book: 'You can't sum it up.'"—Forrest Gander, Brooklyn Rail "Stunning . . . [A] kind of internal whiplash, in which quiet everyday moments become the unwitting prisms through which we suddenly start to see our true selves, is a hallmark of Limón's work. Over the course of six collections of poems, she has proven herself adept at balancing whip-smart emotional observation with graceful descriptions of the natural world . . . After her last collection, 2018's The Carrying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, she established herself as the rarest form of American poet—the kind that resonates with an audience that does not normally pay attention to contemporary poetry. Her elegant narrative poems are keenly observed, remarkably accessible, and pack an emotional wallop."—Departures“[A] shimmering new collection of poems . . . The matter of aliveness is at the very core of The Hurting Kind, a collection that feels as though it’s right on time, with verse that hews close-to-the-bone and is uncommonly relatable in its unflinching, but deeply compassionate, treatment of human pain. Rather than working to dodge the hurt, to make meaning of it so that it might be transmuted from wound into scar, The Hurting Kind is an invitation to sink into the ache, pressing willingly on the bruises wrought by ‘being a body in time, being a body alive’ . . . The Hurting Kind is a work of deep humanity, of recognizing all that’s asked of us . . . It is mercy.”—Literary Hub"This collection is a testament to survival, to the will to go on and to the way the world goes on without us. . . . Reading these poems brings the world into such focus that you can’t help but feel more tethered to it, receptive to its hurt and attuned to its wonder." — Catapult "[Limón] is a poet of both studied and innate talent and with each poem, each carefully crafted collection, Limón has gifted us with an oceanic well of wisdom, intertwining our humanity with the natural world we live within. The Hurting Kind, her latest offering, is a powerful meditation on relationships with love, loss, family, friends, interlaced with an equal intimacy with the land, trees, plants, and animals. Anyone can see themselves in these poems but, more importantly, they can sense the lessons of our ancestors and the grief we must reckon with collectively, together, if our species will survive ourselves and continue to endure."—Electric Literature "That Limón is able to inhabit both past and present in the same moment is part of what makes her poetry so evocative; that she can express it so finely is what makes her an exceptional poet. . . . In all her work, Limon examines language, often questioning rubrics and those who establish them. She is both icon and revolutionary, breaking arbitrary rules, especially if they seek to contain what is poetry, and who it is for . . . Through this stunning collection, throughout her brilliant career, Limón manages the impossible—summing up life—from a multitude of perspectives, unforgettable images, and with verse and silence. The seasons end, lives end, love ends, and then it all begins again. Therein lies our grief. Therein lies our hope."—Chicago Review of Books“Reading the collection replenished me and reminded me to be more intentional and open to the wellness that the natural elements provides for us by simply existing.”—NBC News,11 great books by Latino authors to read this month and always "The Hurting Kind is a collection not unlike her previous collections—which is to say, it’s a book of poetry that centers the heart and the non-human, or more-than-human, entities of the world. The Hurting Kind, though, feels also like a departure: a book of reflections, of looking backwards and inwards, as much as one of observation, a book of the present, of the poet’s current self and surroundings. These poems simultaneously incite and interrogate connection and its opposite, and in language that is both astonishing and accessible, the speakers in Limón’s The Hurting Kind are truth-seekers that lean into feeling, that fully inhabit their physical and emotional worlds."—The Write Question "Poetry readers have come to expect greatness from Limón. . . My most brief statement on the quality of this collection is this: If you have space to teach just one book of poetry, make it The Hurting Kind. . . . What Limón manages with The Hurting Kind is rare; the poems are at once highly specific and yet broadly relatable, both technically masterful and easily comprehensible. In sum, this collection works equally well for both the avid poetry enthusiast and the reluctant reader. If I was going to try and convince someone that poetry is our most important verbal art, I would start with The Hurting Kind. . . . The Hurting Kind is a collection that begs to be shared, and one that will inevitably show signs of wear as readers carry it with them for weeks at a time."—The Poetry Question"Like Sharon Olds and Pablo Neruda, the poets she most resembles, and clearly learned from, Limón is a lover. She writes like a hyperporous lover of the world . . . One of the greatest challenges of our time is to see the living world as having value beyond us. To acknowledge the damage done. What is, Limón appears to be asking in this remarkable book, the best we have made, the finest instrument we know, is our language of love."—John Freeman, Alta Journal"Once again, Ada Limón has written a book I don't want to put down. I find the intensity of her honest interior and environmental explorations spellbinding . . . I see the world in these poems. It may cut me up, but it will also give me back to myself again."—Camille Dungy, Orion"[Limón's] empathetic and clarifying voice has always been a balm in trying times, and The Hurting Kind arrives at just the right moment, a tender exploration of what it means to be connected to the world and the pain and joy of daily living when such things feel increasingly difficult."—Chicago Review of Books“The latest from the open-hearted Kentucky-based poet Ada Limón, who writes earnestly about love, her Mexican American family, and the wildness of memory.”—Garden & Gun“In this book, Limón gives us delightfully candid poetry of celebration and of celebrated regret.”—Logos Journal "[Limón's] bright and clear-eyes lyrics extract the most profound tenderness from the simplest moments . . . An understated, powerful, unforgettable collection, and no doubt one of the best of this year."—Booklist, Starred Review“The tender, arresting sixth collection from Limón is an ode to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that characterizes the natural world . . . Limón’s crystalline language is a feast for the senses, bringing monumental significance to the minuscule and revealing life in every blade of grass.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“In The Hurting Kind, [Limón] touches on the pain of living in the world today (the wounds of the natural world, the pandemic between us), but it is not all sorrows . . . You don’t have to look hard to see the joy and the small celebrations of the things that bind us to one another. The Hurting Kind is a book composed of our connective tissue.”—Literary Hub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2022”"Poet Ada Limón often writes about birds, and her new book, The Hurting Kind, is no exception. Birds are a throughline in the book—between the seasons, from childhood to present, and knowing and unknowing."—BirdNote Radio“[A] tender and intimate new collection, in which Limón asks what it means to be ‘the hurting kind’ . . . to be both perceptive and permeable to the delicate strings that connect us to each other and to the world around us. All I can say is Ada Limón never misses! Each poem is a stone in the poet’s hand being turned over and over to reveal its quartz-qualities, its secret radiances, its prismatic reflections. Lucid, as ever.” —Serena, Books Are Magic, “Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2022”“Ada Limón’s latest collection has poems for each season that transcend the page and bloom into wilderness, tenderness, hauntings, loss, all in such distilled, but grounded language. This collection speaks to our current times, reminding us of our deep connection to nature, the animal in each of us, our ghosts, the loss of something that never existed. Her writing is as enduring and intuitive as the trees.” —Julie Jarema, Avid Bookshop“The Hurting Kind reminds us to remain open and tender to the world, even with all of its hard edges. I found myself enthralled with her poems of companionship, both human and animal. Limón’s lyric style propels me toward what I love most about poetry, the liminal space between rapture and pain.” —Halee Kirkwood, Birchbark Books“Once again, I reached the end of an Ada Limón collection and immediately want to start over again. Limón writes about human and nonhuman connections across seasons—seasons of Earth, seasons of grief, seasons of loving. Limón is an insightful storyteller who draws truth from the sometimes harsh beauty of the natural world around her. A gorgeous collection!” —Ellie Ray, Content Bookstore“I read this book while sitting in my favorite chair, covered with a lap blanket as the furnace kept winter outside. As I reflected on this wonderful collection, the day’s worries evaporated and sleep came easily. I highly recommend an evening of immersion with this prose which is so beautifully written.” —Todd Miller, Arcadia Books“Reading this collection made me feel like I was standing outside with my bare feet in the grass, scrunching my toes in the soil, feeling the breeze on my face, and pondering the oneness of everything.” —LeeAnna Callon, Blue Cypress Books“The Hurting Kind is the poetry you want to read over and over again because of the magical relationships [Limón] develops between humans and nature. As a fellow bird lover, it sealed my understanding of how important birds are in the universe.” —Easty Lambert-Brown, Ernet & Hadley Booksellers“Absolutely lovely poetry that reads like a love letter to our flying feathered friends . . . The entire collection exquisitely touches on grief and pain as well as the beauty to be found in nature.” —Vicki Honeyman, Literati Bookstore“I owe a debt of gratitude to Ada Limón. I had never had a deep relationship with poetry, and then someone introduced me to her wondrous world and I have been seeking out poetic beauty ever since . . . I absolutely love her new offering, The Hurting Kind. ‘Not the Saddest Thing in the World’ is a gem that sparkles in the soul. I would love to know what your favorite will be from The Hurting Kind.” —Linda Bond, Auntie’s BookshopPraise for Ada Limón“Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation. Her poetry feels fast, full of details, often playful, and driven by conversational voice.”—Tracy K. Smith, Guardian“Limón is one of the country’s finest poets. . . . She performs a near-miraculous feat in balancing razor-sharp imagery with deep ambivalence.”—Shelf Awareness“[Limón] writes with remarkable directness about the painful experiences normally packaged in euphemism and, in doing so, invites the readers to enter the world where abundant joy exists alongside and simultaneous to loss.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune“Limón’s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book.”—The Millions“Limón doesn’t write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her words reveal, coax, pull, see us. . . . [She is] a poet with the most generous of eyes.”—Nikky Finney“Lyrical, tender, and knowing . . . Limón’s poetry connects the personal and the universal.”—Garden & Gun“With the knowing directness of a letter, Limón’s poems speak to the marrow of our everyday condition . . . The power of Limón’s unflinching examination of grief and loss is only surpassed by her love of beauty and compassion.”—BOMB Magazine“Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, [Limón’s] poetic gestures entrance and transfix.”—Richard Blanco“[Limón’s] poems come closer than any poems have to Annie Dillard’s essays . . . She’s that rarest of beasts, a poet who can take you by surprise.”—New Criterion“All of Limón’s books have found a home on my bookshelf, each volume a heartfelt reckoning of what it is be alive. In her collections, I find a grace that demonstrates her versatility and wisdom as well as a ‘surrendering.’ She explains that the central question of her work is, ‘How do we live in the world?’ Yet she’s a poet as comfortable with questions as with answers.”—Guernica“Wisely observant . . . Limón’s poems personify the twinned-narrative of despair and tenacity that has become part of America’s current political and social reality. . . . A spark of courage in our dark and troubled times.”—PANK“Limón’s work is a reminder that you can write poetry about big ideas.”—America “Limón teaches me that language can still surprise me. She shows me that the juxtaposition of words not previously joined can catch me off-guard, make me feel that shimmer of resonance, of curiosity.”—SignatureTable of Contents 1. Spring Give Me ThisInvasiveSwear On ItDrowning CreekSanctuaryA Good StoryIn the ShadowForsythiaAnd Too, the FoxStranger Things in the ThicketGlimpseThe First LessonAnticipationFoaling SeasonNot the Saddest Thing in the WorldStillwater Cove 2. Summer It Begins With the TreesBanished WondersWhere the Circles OverlapWhen It Comes Down To ItThe Magnificent FrigatebirdBlowing on the WheelJar of ScorpionsThe First FishJoint Custody On Skyline and TarCyrus & the SnakesOnly the Faintest BlueCalling Things What They Are“I Have Wanted Clarity in Light of My Lack of Light”Open WaterThornsThe Mountain Lion 3. Fall PrivacyIt’s the Season I Often MistakeHow We See Each OtherSportsProofHeart on FirePower LinesHookyMy Father’s Mustache Runaway ChildInstrumentationIf I Should FailIntimacy 4. Winter LoverThe Hurting KindAgainst NostalgiaForgivenessHeatObedienceThe UnspokenSalvageWhat is Handed DownToo CloseThe End of Poetry

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Book SynopsisPlaywright Migdalia Cruz breathes new life intoRichard III. Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz unpacks and repositions Shakespeare'sRichard IIIfor a twenty-first-century audience. She presents a contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play intact, with a rigorous and in-depth examination ofRichard IIIthe man, the king, the outsiderwho is still the only English king to have died in battle. In the Wars of the Roses, his Catholic belief in his country led to his slaughter at Bosworth's Field by his Protestant rivals. In reimagining this text, Cruz emphasizes Richard III's outsider statusexacerbatedby his severe scoliosis, which twisted his spineby punctuating the text with punk music from 1970s London. Cruz's Richard is no one's fool or lackey. He is a new kind of monarch, whose dark sense of humor and deep sense of purpose leads his charge against the society which never fully accepted him because he looked different.

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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

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Book SynopsisAntler steps out of her front door and throws her phone to the ground. She stamps on it. Then she climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not by anyone. Over the course of one autumnal evening, seven teenagers' lives intertwine as they make their way through the park. And everything that seemed normal becomes extraordinary. A play about protest, power and protecting yourself, Stef Smith's Remote was commissioned as part of the 2015 National Theatre Connections Festival and proved enormously popular with youth theatres and college companies across the UK, returning for the 2023 Connections Festival.

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Book SynopsisA reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore''s work to the attention of a wider public. This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber''s publishing over the decades.

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Book SynopsisHasib Hourani's debut collection, rock flight, is a book-length poem that follows personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. Searing and fierce, tender and pleading, rock flight moves between poetry and prose, historical events and meditations on language to create a vital interactive reading experience.

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Book SynopsisA stage thriller set in the world of competitive swimming,from a major US writer.

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Book SynopsisNicolas is going through a difficult phase after his parents' divorce. He's listless, skipping classes, lying. He believes moving in with his father and his new family may help. A different school, a fresh start. When he senses he isn't wanted there, he decides to go back to his mother's. But what happens when the options dry up? I'm telling you. I don't understand what's happening to me. Florian Zeller's The Son completes a trilogy with The Mother and The Father, all of which are translated by Christopher Hampton. The Son premiered at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2019, and transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in August.

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Book SynopsisBased on the?'No Fear Shakespeare'?translations, this dynamic graphic novel ? now with colour added ? is impossible to put down. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky and appealing to teens.

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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

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Book SynopsisFrom the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land take note.His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows Gods often act like men: the same fragile egos, the same unpredictable fury and the same sense of entitlement to the bodies of mortals.She will sacrifice everything to protect her son, but she knows the Gods will one day tire of sports fans, their fickle allegiances and misdirected prayers. When that moment comes, it won't matter how special he is. Only the women in Demi's life, the mothers, daughters and Goddesses, will stand between him and a lightning bolt.

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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.

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Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.

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Book SynopsisCynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism.No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories with an acrid aftertaste of deep thought.Trade Review“These are exuberant, engaging poems composed with confidence and flair. I loved this book from beginning to end. Some real standouts include 'Rx for Little Black Girls,' 'We Make Sin a Good Hymn,' and 'Ode to JET Magazine' but really it’s all outstanding, intelligent, referential in interesting ways.” — —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger

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Book SynopsisWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats'' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.Trade ReviewLittered with sensuous descriptions of nature's beauty, Keats's odes also pose profound philosophical questions * Sunday Telegraph *Sublime * Sunday Times *In what we call natural magic, he ranks with Shakespeare...no-one else in English poetry has...his perception of loveliness * Matthew Arnold *One of the half-dozen greatest English writers * Edmund Wilson *His letters are certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet * T.S. Eliot *

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Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for Valentine’s DaySelected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile.Trade ReviewThe poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers -- Carol Ann Duffy * Daily Telegraph *His love poems have fuelled romances around the world * Independent *One of the greatest love poets of all time -- Christopher Hitchens * Observer *

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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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Book SynopsisThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel.An early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the

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

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