This collection comprises the works of John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and contemporary of Byron and Shelley. The collection includes Endymion , Lamia , Isabella and Hyperion .

With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Ted Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963.

This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece .

A spiritual allegory that explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

A collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, songs from plays and celebrated soliloquies from Hamlet , Romeo and Juliet , King Lear , Henry V and The Merchant of Venice . In addition, substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth are included.

The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete texts of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales from Ovid as well as those children's poems that Hughes felt crossed over into adult poetry. Most significantly it also includes small press publications and editions that, until now, remain uncollected and ...

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almost funny, story in which natural forces and creatures, mythic figures, even parts of the body, ..

Presents a poem that conjures up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting Satan and Adam and Eve at the center of this story, the author creates an intense human tragedy on the Fall of Man.

This new collection of poems and translations from the award-winning poet and scholar, Christopher Middleton, subverts accepted truths with dazzling incision and encounters an array of fascinating characters.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.

Although best remembered for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This selection of nearly two hundred poems includes pieces, such as During Wind and Rain , Channel Firing , Afterwards , The Darkling Thrush , The Oxen , To Lizbie Browne , and others.

This edition, like its OUP predecessor, combines Bunting's 'Collected Poems' with the 'Uncollected Poems'.

Offers a selection of poems with an introduction and notes, using the original punctuation, but with modernised spelling. This work presents a selection that gives an overview of the author's career with examples of his sacred works as well as his secular poems, and offers several glimpses of his life in Devon.

One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of his best-known poems, from Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Kubla Khan to Dejection: An Ode and the ballad Christabel .

It has been argued that no poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods.

Provides careful annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment, and introductory material setting the poem - The Faerie Queene - in its historical and literary context. This book also includes additional original material, which includes a chronology, a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses, and dedicatory sonnets.

In The Canterbury Tales , Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This version of the text has been translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill.