english poetry

Contains over sixty little-known or forgotten poems selected as favorites by other poets, each with with an explanatory essay.

An anthology of poems written in English over the last century, with works from both classic and contemporary authors.

Camille Paglia explores and celebrates great poems of the Western tradition and reflects on the impact they have had on literature.

A collection of twenty-one poems by William Butler Yeats.

Collects nearly 1,600 works by 195 nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Li-Young Lee and Sherman Alexie, as well as statements on poetry by the poets themselves; and includes headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies.

Presents biographical information about William Shakespeare and a collection of critical essays discussing various aspects of his sonnets, including characters, themes and meanings, and poetic technique.

A collection of poems by nineteenth-century English scholar A. E. Housman, including selections from "A Shropshire Lad.".