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Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day...
DKMH: Poems by Dacre Montgomery
Author: Dacre Montgomery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Since its release as a small mixed-media podcast, DKMH has topped charts all over the internet. Written and produced...
Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...
The Iliad
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's Iliad is the greatest and most influential epic poem ever written, telling of the tragic and bloody climax to...
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Author: Sappho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Aaron Poochigian's lyrical translations preserve the musical style of Sappho's songs. In his introduction he discusses the theories surrounding Sappho's...
the mermaids voice returns in this one
Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths...
the witch doesn't burn in this one
Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now-indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take...
The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose
Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Space Between Us explores the trials of love and what it's like to live a life separated by...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
The Saga of the Volsungs
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...
The Complete Poems
Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of...
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...
The Odyssey
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...
Selected Poems: Tennyson
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...
The Essential Ginsberg
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.' Bringing...
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing...
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made...
Selected Poems and Prose
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A battle-hardened...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
Cyrano de Bergerac
Author: Edmond Rostand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman...
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A stunning new hardcover edition--linen with copper stamping-of one of the world's most beloved and popular spiritual classics, featuring a new...
Black Book of Poems II
Author: Vincent Hunanyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This collection offers a refreshingly honest approach to life and love that is realistic and relatable to everyone. Written...
The History Boys
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and...
Don Juan
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro
Author: Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the...
Selected Poems: Milton
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A selection of Milton's poetry The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection...
Selected Poems: Donne
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben...
Selected Poems
Author: Langston Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in...