Homer
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Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war ... more.

John Donne
Oxford University Press
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John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical 's ... more.

Compiled by Michael Rosen
Candlewick Press
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Looking to instill a love of poetry in your children? Surprise them with this lavishly illustrated anthology and you're sure to capture their hearts! Includes some of the best-loved poems of the English-speaking world---from ... more.

Emily Dickinson
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Virtually unknown as a poet in her life time, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is now recognized as one of the most unaccountably strange and marvelous of the world's great writers. Unique in their form, their psychic urgency, and their uncanny, ... more.

Christina Rossetti
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The poems of Christina Rosetti (1830-94) have always been cherished for their exquisitely turned lyrical beauty and the pleasures they provide to the senses. What has become increasingly clear to contemporary readers of her work ... more.

Robert Frost
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Here is the first authoritative and comprehensive collection of America's greatest 20th-century poet. Eagerly awaited by scholars and general readers alike, it brings together all of Robert Frost's majo ... more.

W W Norton
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and later, from Grendel's mother. He ret ... more.

Dante Alighieri
W W Norton
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Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary Ameri ... more.

John Keats
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Collection of lyric and narrative poems written by John Keats. These odes,sonnets, narratives and narrative fragments are the works we have come to most thoroughly identify with Romanticism in English literature. Keats profound, contemplative ... more.

William Blake, Michael Mason
Oxford University Press
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By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox thinker, Blake was for years ignored or derided. Sustained by his belief in the artistic imagination, he drafted poetry, prose visions, and epigra ... more.

Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri, David N. Higgins
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The poem is a spiritual autobiography in journey the poet travels from the dark circles of the Inferno, up the mountain of Purgatory, where Virgil, his guide, leaves him to encounter Beatrice in ... more.

William C. Spengemann, Jessica F. Roberts
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Compiled to suggest what nineteenth-century America contributed to the history of poetry, rather than what poetry may contribute to a history of nineteenth-century America, this volum ... more.

William Blake
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In his prophetic books, William Blake (1757-1827) was a visionary who can be compared without blasphemy to the prophets of the Old Testament. In his life as a citizen of London, he was an unreconstructed revolutionary of the human spirit. A ... more.

Victor Hugo, Brooks Haxton
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For most of his life, Victor Hugo was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was kno ... more.

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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes ... more.

Paul Dunbar
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was 'the most promising young colored man' in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently became one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written ... more.

William Blake
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(PUBPrinceton University Press)William Blake, the 18th-century British romantic poet, wrote some of the finest children's verse of all time (e.g., ''Little Lamb Who Made ... more.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A collection that restores Longfellow's reputation as an important and influential American poet. The most popular poet of his day, Longfellow has, unfortunately been discredited by posterity. This generous sampling of ... more.

John Donne
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This edition, compiled and introduced by C.A. Patrides, is recognized as the most complete and scholarly one volume collection of the poetical works of John Donne. In it; his lyrics, his satires, his anthems to the body and the soul, his erot ... more.

Brian Stone
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The unknown fourteenth-century author (a contemporary of Chaucer) has imbued his work with the heroic atmosphere of a saga, with the spirit of French romance and with a Christian consciousness. It is a poem in which the v ... more.

Homer
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The Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. Fitzgerald's much-honored translatio ... more.

A. T. Hatto
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This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the tw ... more.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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These love poems have long been considered the finest ever written by a woman in the English language, and their literary excellence is surpassed only by the sonnets of Shakespeare. F ... more.

Oxford University Press
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Some 40 years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C., God began to convey a series of startling announcements to the people of Israel. Through a prophet, God announced that he was about to unfold a rescue plan on their behalf. ... more.

Edmund Spenser
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It was the first epic in English and established the possiblities of heroic poetry in the English tradition. Milton called Spenser a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, and the rythmical music and rhetorical control of The Fae ... more.

John Donne
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'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet - and even, many feel, the ... more.

William Blake
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The personal issues with which he wrestled seemed to him to be also the salient problems of human life. They include questions of the proper place of intellectual control in the personality, the place of impulse, the relations betw ... more.

Ben Johnson, George Parfitt, Ben Jonson
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His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urban elegance of his he contrived a directness, and energy of ... more.

William Wordsworth
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This new, generous selection of Wordsworth's best poems, freshly edited and chronologically arranged, concentrates on his greater short works. ... more.

Robert Burns
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This important new selection of the poems and songs of Robert Burns presents the texts arranged in probably order of composition and uses where possible thier first published form. It thus gives modern readers a flavour of what it must ... more.