Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan and Christabel

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0486290727

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak...

Author	Thomas Gray
ISBN	1857362233

Personal Response:
Poetry is not my favorite thing to read. I kind of struggled through this poem, but I do think I took away the main point the author was trying to get across to me. This poem really made me think about what was going on. Unlike many books, this plot wasn't spoon fed to me.
Plot:
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Author	Alfred Tennyson
ISBN	0192723715

The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Tennyson's beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for...

Author	Lord Byron
ISBN	0140424504

Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his...

Author	Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN	0946497079

Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2

I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...

Author	John Keats
ISBN	0192834932

This is an entirely new selection of Keats's finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness,...