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Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

10 best books like Aurora Leigh and Other Poems (Elizabeth Barrett Browning): The Collected Poems, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi, Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Poetry of the Thirties, Selected Poems, Complete Poems and Translations, Complete Poems, English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology

The Collected Poems
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0805005471
Introduction, by Nick Laird

--A Shropshire Lad

Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0192840800
This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier,...
Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi
AuthorMahmood Jamal
ISBN0140424733
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are...
Collected Poems
AuthorJohn Betjeman
ISBN0719568501
betjeman's great poem, "slough" is surely the inspiration for one of the great songs of the 20th century, dontcha think? check the excerpts:

slough

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come,...
Selected Poems
AuthorCharles Baudelaire
ISBN0140446249
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories...
Poetry of the Thirties
AuthorRobin Skelton
ISBN0141184574
Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil...
Selected Poems
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN0486277887
Considered by many critics the foremost English "metaphysical" poet, John Donne (1572–1631) earned renown for both sacred and secular verse, his love poems in the latter genre ranking among his most original and popular works. Brilliant and wide-ranging, Donne's verse is distinguished by its...
Complete Poems and Translations
AuthorChristopher Marlowe
ISBN0143104950
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
Complete Poems
AuthorChristina Rossetti
ISBN0140423664
Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and sonnets, and the vast body of her devotional poetry....
English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
AuthorPaul Negri
ISBN0486404250
The Victorian period of English Literature is generally dated from the late 1830's to the turn of the 20th century (coinciding with the reign of Queen Victoria) and includes a roster of poets whose works are of perennial interests to literature students as well as enduringly popular with poetry lovers...
The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems
AuthorKālidāsa
ISBN0140455213
Kalidasa was the most accomplished poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature. This collection features his best-known work: the great poem Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), a haunting depiction of longing and separation; the play Sakuntala, which describes the troubled love between...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
AuthorAnthony Thwaite
ISBN0141190949
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic...
The Major Works
AuthorAlexander Pope
Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological...
The Complete Poems
AuthorBen Jonson
ISBN0140422773
One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The Complete Poems contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published...
The Major Works
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0192813749
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors...
Selected Poems
AuthorJohn Clare
Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of natural life and his laments for the death of rural England grew directly out of his intimate knowledge of the labourer's life, the wheatfields and hedgerows...
The Complete Poems
AuthorAndrew Marvell
ISBN0140424571
Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry,...
Metaphysical Poetry
AuthorColin Burrow
A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics.

Spanning the Elizabethan...
Selected Poems
AuthorConstantinos P. Cavafy
ISBN0141185619
The spellbinding verse of one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the twentieth century

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined...
Poems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon
AuthorAlgernon Charles Swinburne
ISBN0140422501
This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates...
Fasti
AuthorOvid
ISBN0140446907
Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history,...
Tennyson: Selected Poems
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
ISBN0140445455
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the word and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot.
--From The Lady of Shalott

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems found inspiration in sources as diverse as Greek myths...
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