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  The World's Wife

  Poems

  by Carol Ann Duffy

  Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, stray from home. So better by far for me if you were stone. --from "Medusa" Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the... (more)
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  Sonnets

  by William Shakespeare

  Each sonnet has four stanzas, three quartets and a triplet final compounds in iambic pentamers (verse also used in dramatic works of Shakespeare) with a rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg (so that today is known as a Shakespearean sonnet ). There are three exceptions: the sonnets 99, 126 and 145. Number 99 has fifteen lines. The 126 consists of six triplets and two blank verse (no rhyme) written in italics. On the... (more)
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  Collected Poems

  by Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite

  This work was preceded by a 1988 collection of poems with the same tite, yet different content.
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  Birthday Letters

  by Ted Hughes

  Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath. The poems in Birthday Letters are addressed (with just two exceptions) to Plath, and were written... (more)
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  The Complete Poems

  by Thomas Hardy, James Gibson

  Thomas Hardy's first love was poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was 58, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the final years of his life he abandoned fiction and devoted himself entirely to poetry; he is now not only regarded as one of the most important English novelists but is also a poet of major stature and increasing popularity. The Complete Poems includes Hardy's more than... (more)
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  Selected Poems

  by William Wordsworth

  One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth’s life— from "Tintern Abbey," an ode on the restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship with... (more)
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  Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

  by John Keats

  'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers,' and T. S.... (more)
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  Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

  by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning.  This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well.
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  John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)

  by John Donne

  “Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is the best text of Donne now available. It is scrupulously edited, and equally useful for students and for scholars.”—Harold Bloom, Yale University The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts—the ... (more)
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  The Shout: Selected Poems

  by Simon Armitage

  Simon Armitage is one of Britain's most respected poets. He is considered Philip Larkin's successor in both the easy brilliance of his verse and the national acclaim he has received. His subjects have ranged from yardwork to politics, from the fidelity of dogs to the negotiations of lovers. A selection of poetry that is wry, unpretentious, and constantly inventive, The Shout collects Armitage's best work from the... (more)
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  The Riverside Chaucer

  by Geoffrey Chaucer

  This peerless new edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study, and replaces Robinson's famous edition, long regarded as the standard text. Freshly edited and annotated, the "Riverside Chaucer" is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer.
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  The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

  by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.
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  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  Tales from Ovid

  by Ted Hughes

  A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its... (more)
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  The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition

  by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy, Alexander W. Allison, Arthur M. Eastman, Mark Jeffreys, Debra Fried

  Long the classic anthology of poetry in English, The Norton Anthology of Poetry , Fifth Edition, adds to its wealth of known and loved poems a rich gathering of new poetry. Beginning with Beowulf , newly represented by selections from Seamus Heaney's dazzling translation, and continuing to the present day, The Norton Anthology of Poetry includes over 1,700 poems by 340 poets in the Regular Edition. Many major... (more)
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  Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

  Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

  by John Hollander

  A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil... (more)
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  The humorous poetry of the English language,: From Chaucer to Saxe

  by James Parton

  This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because... (more)
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  The Prelude

  The Four Texts: 1798, 1799, 1805, 1850

  by William Wordsworth

  First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution.... (more)
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  Six Centuries of Great Poetry

  A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats

  by Robert Penn Warren, Albert Erskine

  Uniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry. From Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit...from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets' confused searching, this outstanding one-volume collection brings us the profound, soul-nourishing experience of great poetry. Brilliantly selected and arranged by... (more)
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  Selected Poems

  by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Treasury of verse by great Victorian poet includes famous long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus a selection of important lyrics, monologues, ballads and other typical pieces. Among them: "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook." Reprinted from... (more)