english poetry

A collection of poetry written by nineteenth-century British poet Robert Browning.

Presents a representative selection of poems by Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets, including Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, and others; and features criticism written from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.

Collects the sonnets and poetry of William Shakespeare.

Selected by Thomas Kinsella, a renowned poet and translator, this anthology presents the Irish tradition as unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. As the most wide-ranging anthology available--spanning from the pre-Christian era to the present day, the poems are grouped in three sections. Kinsella's first selections are from the earliest pre-Christian times and move forward to the first poetry in English from the 14th century. Next comes Irish bardic poetry and English poetry in the era of Swift and Goldsmith. The final section brings us to the recent past and the present with 19th- and 20th-century poets from Davis, Mangan, Yeats, and Ferguson to Austin Clarke, Patrick (P. J.) Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.