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Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: very good
Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity ...Show more
Selected Poems of Lord Byron by George Gordon Byron
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen. 'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which B ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot; Seamus Heaney (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this c ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Other volumes in this series: Auden, Bet ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Library, Penguin Ser. | Reading Level: good
Gathers sonnets, odes, poems, and selections of Prometheus Unbound by the early-nineteenth-century British poet.
Selected Poetry and Prose by Mew, Charlotte and Copus, Julia(Edited by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The best of Charlotte Mew's poetry and prose selected by Julia Copus, in the 150th anniversary of Mew's birth.
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and ...Show more
Shambhala Anthology Of Chinese Poetry by James Cryer (Translator); J. P. Seaton
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Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry Ser.
In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic Shi ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more