"I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy, and you were to be one of the many graceful figures in it." While imprisoned in 1895-7 for "gross indecency", the brilliant poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wrote a long, impassioned letter to his... Zobraziť viac
Poetry Prescription: Calm is a beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book containing carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these poems will bring you calm... Zobraziť viac
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field... Zobraziť viac
Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it... Zobraziť viac
Composed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry... Zobraziť viac
The great hero Odysseus has been away from his family for twenty years when the goddess Athene decides to help him find his way back to the island of Ithaca. But the journey will not be easy... Zobraziť viac
This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems carefully curated by the host of the internationally acclaimed Poetry Unbound podcast... Zobraziť viac
Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare,The Tragedies sits alongside The Histories and The Comedies to create a delightful three-set edition, with the works laid out in all their glory... Zobraziť viac
A phenomenon across all formats, this paperback omnibus contains the complete Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy in five parts, charting the whole of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space and time. Share and enjoy... Zobraziť viac
Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them... Zobraziť viac
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us... Zobraziť viac
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual... Zobraziť viac
A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman... Zobraziť viac
What can a study of Pope tell us about the eighteenth century? Was Pope the poet of reason, or an anti-establishment prophet? So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's... Zobraziť viac
Translated by Niall Rudd Edited with an Introduction and Notes by William BarrJuvenal, writing between AD 110 and 130, was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His powerful and witty attacks on the vices, abuses, and follies of the big city have... Zobraziť viac
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963... Zobraziť viac
This multi-award-winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. The Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival... Zobraziť viac
Egypt's ancient pyramids, temples, and tombs along the Nile, which have inspired artists and writers for centuries, have also inspired poets-and particularly in the nineteenth century when romanticism was at its height. Egyptologist Donald Ryan here... Zobraziť viac
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be ... Zobraziť viac
