english poetry

Profiles the lives and works of selected poets from throughout history, from William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, looking at how successive generations have influenced each other, and includes illustrations, as well as examples of their writing.

Features the sonnets and narrative poems of William Shakespeare and provides a brief biography of the author and playwright, a chronology of events in his life, an index of the poems' first lines, and textual notes.

Presents the poems of seventeenth-century author John Donne.

Presents the poems and poem-fragments of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, presented in chronological order, with biographical and historical notes, as well as selected criticism.

Presents the complete English poems of seventeenth-century English poet John Milton.

A company of thirty-one pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury. Text is in Middle English and includes definitions, an introduction, and notes on pronunciation, grammar, and versification.

A classic anthology of English poetry.

A collection of poems about such everyday events as buying a puppy, playing football, and collecting frogs.

Identifies in verse behavior that is unacceptable.