Poetry by Individual Poets

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...

Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright u...

George Herbert, his contemporaries, and readers inhabited a world of material things that were spiritually animated but deeply troubling. Habitual ...

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, L...

'I am drawn to paintings that catch glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that lead to other rooms,' Beverley Bie Brahic says. Apple Thieves is full...

Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire's infamous book brings to t...

In the course of forty years an increasingly subtle conversation has evolved between words and silence at the core of Philip Gross's poetry. This i...

What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of Americas most daring and ...

For many years Daisaku Ikeda has used poetry to express his innermost observations and sensations. He has given poetic voice to feelings that have ...

Rachel Piercey charms and disturbs in her first full-length pamphlet, which considers the frailty of human relationships and makes a strong case fo...

A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life ri...