Poetry & Plays

Author: Roger McGough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A beautiful new collection of poetry from one of Britain's best-loved poets From 'Adultery in Isolation' to 'After You....

Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' - William Blake...

Author: Caleb Femi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture...

Author: Virgil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by...

Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...

Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...

Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...

Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Wilfred Owen was the greatest poet of the First World War - his best work is collected here, published in a...

Author: Jonathan Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...

Author: Edmund Spenser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1248 Penguin Classics relaunch. The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems...

Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential...

Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life...

Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory -...

Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...

Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it...

Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings. The ancient...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Homer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice''Medea', in which...

Author: Robin Kirkpatrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition The Divine Comedy...

Author: Adonis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan...

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...

Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 450 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld...

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...

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...

Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. I mean the truth untold, The pity...

Author: Philip Terry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for...

Author: Robert Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards' Robert Graves No...

Author: Eileen Chong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet. Eileen Chong's...

Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 One of the most imaginative minds alive retells the greatest stories in history - the Greek Myths The Greek...

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...

Author: Robert Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform...

Author: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...

Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...

Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...

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...

Author: Geoffrey Bownas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Penguin Book of Japanese Versecontains over 700 poems from the third century to the twentieth, including both tanka...

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...

Author: Rabindranath Tagore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,...

Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...

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...

Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1280 Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her...