The Collected Poems
10 best books like The Collected Poems (A.E. Housman): The War Poems, Collected Poems, The Waste Land and Other Writings, Collected Sonnets, Poems, 1965-1975, Collected Poems, Collected Poems of Robert Burns, Selected Poems, The Earliest English Poems, Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
| Author | Siegfried Sassoon |
| ISBN | 0571202659 |
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0374125384 |
All the poems of a great 20th-century poet
From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work, from his earliest poems (published only in journals)...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759344 |
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
| Author | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| ISBN | 0060910917 |
More than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems -- including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets -- are brought together in this new, expanded edition. An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374516529 |
Heaney, the Nobel Laureate poet, has an interesting impact on people. His poems are undeniably refined and precise. He has a gift of placing words together in ways that seem naturally placed, and perfect. He has tremendous knowledge of the past, and mythology frequently finds its way into his poems....
| Author | John Betjeman |
| ISBN | 0719568501 |
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,...
| Author | Robert Burns |
| ISBN | 1853264156 |
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.
Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 0140436995 |
Although I have read several of his novels, this is the first time I have read Thomas Hardy's poetry and, as it does in all of its collections, Dover has gathered a selection from throughout his writing career. What struck me throughout my reading was the almost ever-present sadness. There were some poems...
| Author | Michael Alexander |
| ISBN | 0140445943 |
Anglo-Saxon poetry was produced between 700 and 1000 AD for an audience that delighted in technical accomplishment, and the durable works of Old English verse spring from the source of the English language.
Michael Alexander has translated the best of the Old English poetry into modern English...
| Author | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ISBN | 1598530178 |
Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140585400 |
Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres - fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays. Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms. His characteristic vision informed everything he...
| Author | Stanley Plumly |
| ISBN | 0393065731 |
Posthumous Keats is the result of Stanley Plumly's twenty years of reflection on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romanticists. John Keats's famous epitaph—"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water"—helped cement his reputation as the archetype of the genius cut off before...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 1853264032 |
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download,...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1853264059 |
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0140446249 |
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...
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
| ISBN | 1853264148 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | A.C. Graham |
| ISBN | 1590172574 |
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
| Author | David Jones |
| ISBN | 1590170369 |
"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature....
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 1853264202 |
There are some truly outstanding poems in this collection. The most well known among them would be 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', although Christabel is one of my personal favourites.
There are varying themes within this volume, ranging from love and loss and bereavement, to praise for...
| Author | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ISBN | 0140434127 |
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the...
