This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction and a chronology of the life and times of the poet. Including his best known poem "Hiawatha", this selection of Longfellow's poems spans the whole of his life. Overcoming his grief at the death of his wife, Longfellow wrote some of his most moving and honest poems, including "Palingenesis" and "The Cross of Snow". His later poems draw on his memories of childhood on the northeast coast and include such poems as "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls".

Product Description: This is an impressive gathering of Thwaite's poems written in the period since his Collected Poems (2007) and published in honor of his 80th birthday. Some of these new poems have been published in the Guardian, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, Spectator, and Times Literary Supplement; all are uncollected...read more

A prefatory section on Japanese prosody provides an illustrative background for this poetic collection

A new collection of Phillip Larkin's poetry combines all of his published collections--North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows--with his uncollected poems from 1940-1984. Original.

Product Description: A collection of poetry dedicated to great ruins, the physical icons of a romantic engagement with the past.

Product Description: Anthony Thwaite’s new collection is both moving and funny, elegiac and playful. The personal poems span a life-time as Thwaite relives moments of childhood, or reassesses his role as son to a dying mother, or gets told how to behave by his grandson...read more

Product Description: All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter? I spoke the tongue that was passed onTo me in the place I happened to be,A place huddled between grey walls.Of cloud for at least half the year.--From A Welsh TestamentWhen R.S. Thomas died in September 2000, he was widely regarded not only as the leading Anglo-Welsh poet of our time, but as a major world poet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: George MacBeth (1932-1992) was one of the most gifted and generous poets of our time. Admired by many, from Larkin to Hughes to Reading, in recent years he has sometimes seemed in danger of being forgotten. This selection by the noted American poet Anthony Thwaite, chosen from poems written when MacBeth was in his late teens to the work of his last months, will give a new generation the chance to enjoy his memorable voice...read more

Seven hundred of the great poet's letters are collected here offering a moving, instructive portrait of Larken, from his early correspondence with school friends to his last year of life, 1985, when he died at the age of sixty-three. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: One of Americas best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.

Product Description: This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first appeared 30 years ago, and provides a succinct and accessible overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alike...read more

Provides a definitive collection of many previously published poems, as well as never-before-published works, by the distinguished British poet. Reprint.

Examines each age of British poetry, gathers poems by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Auden, and offers brief profiles of each poet

Product Description: Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the W H Smith Award. In "Larkin at Sixty", a tribute to him on his sixtieth birthday, twenty writers came together to celebrate the man and the poet with specially written pieces...read more

Explores life in the Roman-occupied British Isles from 55 B.C. to A.D. 410, noting Roman influences on language, law, and government