This new annotated edition inlcudes Live Oak, with Moss and prose selections from Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days . The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles.

This edition includes a representative group of early shorter poems, much of Pound's major work and a selection from the Cantos .

A volume comprised of over 350 poems that brings together the full contents of all 11 of Frost's books of verse, from A Boy's Will to In the Clearing . Edited by a Frost scholar and friend of the poet, it also records extensive bibliographic information and traces textual changes.

A collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets, the master of lyrical meditation, first published in 1955, when Stevens was seventy-five. He selected the poems himself from volumes covering more than four decades.

This volume contains all of Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. It was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. An appendix contains 50 earlier poems.

One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Pound's Cantos is an epic achievement which began in 1916 and was left unfinished at his death in 1972.

Presents stories and poems that probe to the depths of the human psyche. This book includes the detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue ; the disturbing classic, The Fall of the House of Usher and the horrifyingly claustrophobic, The Pit and the Pendulum .

Despite critical misunderstanding and neglect both in his time and in ours, Hart Crane remains one of America's greatest poets. This text is an authoritative presentation of Crane's work, and features an introduction by Harold Bloom that provides a keen critical analysis of Crane's work.

This series presents complete poems and generous excerpts from longer works. Each book includes a biographical and critical introduction, a commentary and notes on the poems.

In this anthology, the only edition in print of a landmark work of 20th-century American literature, Edgar Lee Masters parodies the pious and often optimistic epitaphs written on gravestones, to create a series of 'auto-epitaphs' or monologues in free verse.

A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.

Shel Silverstein is one of America's best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it's nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense.

These poems are, in Robert Lowells' words, events rather than the record of events, and as such, represent the triumph of the poet's romantic ambition .

The author, one of the foremost scholars of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared a one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson, 1789 poems in all, rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitilization intact.

This work brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968 and 1975 respectively) in one book.