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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (Author) , George Savidis (Edited by) , Edmund Keeley (Translated by) , Philip Sherrard (Translated by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern Eu ...Show more
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Collected Poems 1934 - 1952 by Dylan Thomas; Sally Minogue (Introductions and notes by)
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them 'Do not go gentle into that good night', 'Fern Hill' and 'The force that through the green fuse drives the flower'. This edition reproduces the Collected ...Show more
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the ha ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
Collected Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Category: Gift | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the e ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more
English Poems of John Milton by John Milton
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
John Milton (1608-74) has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English poet after Skakespeare. His early poems, collected and published in 1645, include the much loved pair 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' ('the cheerful man and the thoughtful man'), 'Lycidas' (his great elegy on a fellow poet) an ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems by William Wordsworth
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield. Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period an ...Show more
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina Rossetti
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of 19th century poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring the themes of loss and unattainable hope across subjects ranging from love to the divine.
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Category: Gift | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
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
Category: Gift | 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