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  • Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714by Abigail Williams

    OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 54.99

    Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture offers a new perspective on early eighteenth century poetry and literary culture, arguing that long-neglected Whig poets such as Joseph Addison, John Dennis, Thomas Tickell, and Richard Blackmore were more popular and successful in their own time than they have been since. These and other Whig writers... more...

  • The Road to Inverby Tom Paulin

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94

    The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections, from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver also includes dozens of new and recent translations from the European canon;... more...

  • Selected Poems of T. S. Eliotby T.S. Eliot

    Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 16.03

    One of six wonderful poetry collections published to celebrate Faber's 80th anniversary. more...

  • Selected Poems David Harsentby David Harsent

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 17.49

    A selection of David Harsent's work from across his career more...

  • Woods etc.by Alice Oswald

    Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57

    The wonderful follow-up collection to Alice Oswald's T. S. Eliot Prize-winning 'river poem' Dart. more...

  • Lives Like Loaded Gunsby Lyndall Gordon

    Little, Brown Book Group 2010; Not Available

    Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson?s poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come down to us as a woman disappointed in love, an odd and pathetic woman who dressed in white and shut... more...

  • The End of the Poemby Paul Muldoon

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 26.99

    In The End of the Poem , Paul Muldoon, "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" ( The Times Literary Supplement ), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Here Muldoon... more...

  • The Essential Metamorphosesby Ovid; Stanley Lombardo; W. R. Johnson

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 7.95

    The Essential Metamorphoses , Stanley Lombardo's abridgment of his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, preserves the epic frame of the poem as a whole while offering the best-known tales in a rendering remarkable for its clarity, wit, and vigor. While making no pretense of offering an experience comparable to that of reading the whole... more...

  • Studying Poetryby Stephen Matterson; Darryl Jones

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 19.49

    Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide variety of examples, from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan. more...

  • FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyámby Adrian Poole; Christine van Ruymbeke; William H. Martin

    Anthem Press 2011; US$ 99.00

    For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect. more...