Poetry

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic u...

Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Pro...

The most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard are collected in this volume. With the publication of his fi...

To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emul...

selected by Peter Washington Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of fi...

Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes an...

These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an ...

A celebration of friendship in all its aspects--from the delight of making a new friend to the serene joys of longtime devotion. Poems about best f...

The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them "succeeds in annihilating all that's ma...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together th...

In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky--best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz--brings together the time...

A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, w...

Music may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets fr...

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness a...

Poe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are "The Raven" with its hypnotic chant of "nevermore, " and th...

A captivating anthology that celebrates one of nature's most majestic creatures and the age-old bond between humans and horses. All kinds of equine...

Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and th...

In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns)--a sweeping liter...

Out of the mundane, a flash of lyrical. From the profane, a hint of sublime. And always, the inventive wordplay that cuts through the skin of langu...

An "exquisite... spot on" (The Hudson Review) collection of poems from one of our best-loved and best-selling poets that is both personal, with poe...

The Door is Margaret Atwood s first book of poetry since the 1995 Morning in the Burned House. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric ...

house that floats on a muddy river in spring-time flood, house like a human head on the surface, house with a boy's face, turned up. – from "House ...

A new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture--a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China'...

Believed by scholars to be the inspiration for Tristan and Isolde, Vis and Ramin was written between 1050 and 1055 and is considered the first epic...

Poetry. Highly energetic and visionary in its dynamic blend of Western and Asian sensuality and heritage, this debut poetry collection by Fiona Sze...