The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling. The travelers ― noble, coarse, jolly... Lees meer

English Romantic Poetry

Stanley Appelbaum

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• Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classifie... Lees meer

Tulips & Chimneys

E E Cummings

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• Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of tradit... Lees meer

Essay on Man and Other Poems

Alexander Pope

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• Considered the preeminent verse satirist in English, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) brought wide learning, devastating wit and masterly technique to his p... Lees meer

Dover Beach and Other Poems

Matthew Arnold

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• This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that c... Lees meer

Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems

James Joyce

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• James Joyce (1882-1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction, and his experimental use of language and stream of consciousness continues to c... Lees meer

100 Best-Loved Poems

Philip Smith

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• Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating ... Lees meer

Selected Poems

John Milton

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• Best known as the author of the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton (1608-74) was also an accomplished writer of shorter verse forms. This treasury p... Lees meer

War Poems

Siegfried Sassoon

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• At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches... Lees meer

Selected Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to... Lees meer

Poems and Songs Celebrating America

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• A tribute to the ideals and accomplishments of American history, this anthology features inspiring verse by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Langston Hugh... Lees meer

Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

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• During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus . Inspired by the death of a friend... Lees meer

Spring and All

William Carlos Williams

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• Heavily influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," the poems of Spring and All express the author's beliefs about the role and form of art in a mod... Lees meer

The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry

Edited by Nicholas Zachariah Kay, Nicholas Kay

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• Poets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration as metaphors, references, and symbols of death, eternity, life, love, power, reli... Lees meer

There Once Was a Limerick Anthology

Croland Michael

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• Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem ... Lees meer

Complete Sonnets

William Shakespeare

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• Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity o... Lees meer

Great Love Poems

Shane Weller

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• Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out f... Lees meer

New Hampshire

Robert Frost

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• Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and land... Lees meer

Early Poems

William Butler Yeats

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• One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for muc... Lees meer

Great Poems by American Women

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• From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of m... Lees meer

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

William Blake

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• As both painter and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) was a powerful and visionary artist whose two early collections of poetry, Songs of Innocence and ... Lees meer

The Poems of Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke

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• The poetry of Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) remains memorable for its charming lyrical quality and the way in which his sonnets perfectly recapture the mo... Lees meer

Imagist Poetry: An Anthology

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• Many of the 20th century's most important and influential poets rallied under the banner of Imagism, a radical poetic movement that extended the front... Lees meer

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

Faubion Bowers

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• Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku by greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki, and many more. Translated by top-flight scholars.... Lees meer