Poetry & Plays

This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in...

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew . It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in...

The climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, this book is a celebration of a young warrior-king. It is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war and...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery After the death of Henry V, the French revolt and threaten to reclaim...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Under the rule of King John, England is forced into war when the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Henry VI is tricked into marrying Margaret - lover of the Earl of...

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes...

An essential introduction to one of the most inventive and provocative poets A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

The lais are a unique form depicting a moment of crisis in a love relationship Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and...

Mary Innes's classic translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create...

As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the...

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language...

An international team of scholars offers: - modernised, easily accessible texts - ample but unobtrusive academic guidance - attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history...

An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords 'Manas the brave is arriving! One flash of rage by...

The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Taliesin's is one of the most...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Threatened by the Duke of York, King Henry makes a deal to disinherit...

For the first time, this volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse...

'his voice attains a kind of living flexibility that seems both spontaneous and controlled' Daily Telegraph The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise...

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre ....

In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'....

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The...

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals...

A revised edition of Dante's early poems, inspired by his love for Beatrice A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA...

First time in Penguin Classics for one of the most popular of the Icelandic sagas- an epic story of heroism and hubris. Composed at the end of the fourteenth century...

Penguin Classics relaunch On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of...

One of the great romance stories from the Middle Ages: a tale of love and deceit One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early...

The culmination of a life, this collection of poetry is an examination of the self, and the growth of a man First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death,...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two...

A comprehensive new selection of the great satirist's prose and poetic works, edited by Leo Damrosch Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights...

Completely new edition of the most popular and widely-studied work of the English middle ages At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous...

One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of...

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on SloughTo get it ready for the plough.The cabbages are coming now;The earth exhales.--from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's "Collected Poems "first...

"A splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and usable." - Around the Globe...

A.B. Paterson loved the bush and wrote as bush folk would. It is this that made his poetry popular with them as well as city dwellers. His works still echo...

Latin text, with Latin-English vocabulary and notes in English.

Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters...

A beautifully illustrated reference to Shakespeare and his time. Four centuries after he penned them, Shakespeare's plays continue to delight audiences and readers worldwide. Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the...

This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking...

This Arden edition of Hamlet , arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and...

There's little that's been written yet Concerning teenage etiquette, So as a sort of useful guide Some gruesome cases lie inside Of teenagers who lost their way And ultimately had...

In But I Don't Feel Empowered , poet and artist Suri Chan harnesses the power of beautiful language and whimsical illustrations to speak on both the lighthearted and heartbreaking experiences...

SHORTLISTED FOR FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2025 WINNER OF THE LIST 'S BEST RISING SCOTTISH AUTHOR AWARD 2025 NOMINATED FOR SCOTS LANGUAGE AWARD'S SCOTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025...

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden 3 edition right up-to-date. A completely new...

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand...

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before...

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Why should anyone bother with Coleridge either as a theologian or a political theorist? At first in desperation, but now quite deliberately, Alan Gregory convincingly suggests that one should bother...