Although Tennyson has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems still have relevance. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages.

This edition of Larkin's poems presents his four published books The North Ship , The Less Deceived , The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows in their original sequence. The text also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years.

A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.

With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle.

The poems gathered here established T.S. Eliot decisively as the voice of a disillusioned generation .

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.

A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.

A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness.

In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth, women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. This title collects poems, prayers and writing from authors, leaders in spiritual thought and traditional offerings from people around the world.

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.

A book of poems by the world's celebrated poet.

Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the 'fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The poem is a spiritual autobiography in the form of a journey - the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide leaves him to encounter ...

Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion.

Occupying a key position in the history of western art, this book allows the author to communicate with his readers as he intended. It helps the readers to experience the mystery and beauty of his poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.

Presents traditional nursery rhymes, including "Little Jack Horner," "Hot Cross Buns," "The Queen of Hearts," and "The Cat and the Fiddle.".

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

Presents a selection of Frost's poetry that contains forty poems including choices from A Boy's Will , North of Boston , West-Running Brook , A Further Range , and In the Clearing . This edition has notes on the poems and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques within the poetry.

A collection of poems and prose.

This bestselling anthology of poetry in English has now been fully updated in a fifth edition.