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

Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing. As well as presenting work by such poets as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Betjeman, this edition also covers post-World War II poetry.

Seven centuries of verse, from 1250 to 1950. Dame Helen Gardner reflects the critical consensus of the day in broadening her choices beyond those of Quiller-Couch's lyrical tastes. The anthology balances poems dealing with public events and historic occasions, poems of private life, and religious, moral.

An anthology of 500 brilliant poems, that presents a totally new view of contemporary poetry.

Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for years to come.

In his introduction to this anthology, the late Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised. The collected 101 poems are both personal favourites and particularly well-suited to the method Hughes demonstrates.

A collection of poems that have delighted and inspired generations of readers. It also contains a selection of prose, including the Gettysburg Address, the Ten Commandments, the Declaration of Independence, and the text of Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech.

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 poems from a wide range of literary magazines and journals. The work comes from established poets, like Susan Mitchell, as well as from newcomers who provide poems from fresh and diverse perspectives.

Reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry. This volume offers three 'galleries' of individual poets - figures such as Mallarme, Stein, Rilke, Tzara, Mayakovsky, Pound, H D, Vallejo, Artaud, Cesaire, and Tsvetayeva.

Auden, Lewis, MacNeice and other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism and by the class-struggle. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, a varied body of poetry emerged. This book arranges the poetry to make a 'critical essay' of the period.

This is a reissue in CD format of the tape published in 1995 which includes 72 poems read by the compilers, and nine other poets reading their own and other poems. The content is taken from the fourth print edition of Poems on the Underground published in 1995.

Contains the poems arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This volume also offers a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Intends to bring together the poets and poetry movements that radically altered the ways that art and language express the human condition. This work offers a chronicle of the second 'great awakening' of experimental poetry in the twentieth century. It provides informative and irreverent commentaries throughout.

These are poems to have fun with. Read them to your lover, make this your personal pillow book.

An anthology of American poetry that opens in the colonial seventeenth century and closes in the twentieth, emphasizing the extraordinary, vital period that followed the 1950s. It ranges from Anne Bradstreet to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from William Carlos Williams to Walt Whitman and Ai.

More witty and stylish poetic therapy for the Venus and Mars generation.