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So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
Don Juan

Don Juan

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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 Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work...
Selected Poems: Blake

Selected Poems: Blake

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

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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 Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

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Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings

Penguin's Poems for Weddings

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Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...
The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs

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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...
Paradiso

Paradiso

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Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 After INFERNO and PURGATORIO, here is the last cantica (part) of the Divine Comedy, in a new translation by acclaimed...
The Divine Comedy & Paradise

The Divine Comedy & Paradise

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Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The most moving lines literature has achieved' Jorge Luis Borges In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

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Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
Beowulf

Beowulf

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Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

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Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

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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...
Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

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Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 "I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive."...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance

The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance

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Author: Edith Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 "Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators." -Harold Bloom Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's...
The Black Unicorn

The Black Unicorn

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

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Author: Mx Eileen Myles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her poems open...
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs

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Author: Christopher Reid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 I've rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and...
break your glass slippers

break your glass slippers

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a...
Pillow Thoughts

Pillow Thoughts

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Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into...
Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)

Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)

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Author: Danielle Jawando Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several...
The Prophet

The Prophet

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Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living,...
the princess saves herself in this one

the princess saves herself in this one

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

Whiskey Words & a Shovel I

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater...
The Iliad

The Iliad

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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...
Dogs: Stories and Poems

Dogs: Stories and Poems

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Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...
Planting Gardens in Graves

Planting Gardens in Graves

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 r.h. Sin returns with a force in Planting Gardens in Graves: a powerful collection of poetry that hones in...
to drink coffee with a ghost

to drink coffee with a ghost

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In the first...
The Cinder Path

The Cinder Path

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love...
Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
Selected Poems: Rossetti

Selected Poems: Rossetti

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Author: Christina G. Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The poems selected in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, showing her to be one...
The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale

The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale

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Author: Eugenio Montale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 793 Hailed as one of the key poets of the modern era, Eugenio Montale changed Italian poetry forever and helped to create...
Falling Through Love

Falling Through Love

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Author: Akif Kichloo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...
Child of the Moon

Child of the Moon

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Author: Jessica Semaan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 "In her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront &moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear...
Undying A Love Story

Undying A Love Story

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Author: Michel Faber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife,...
masquerade

masquerade

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Author: Cyrus Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Divided into three parts and illustrated by Parker, masquerade grapples with topics such as the never-ending search for acceptance,...
Inferno The Divine Comedy I

Inferno The Divine Comedy I

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Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...
the mermaids voice returns in this one

the mermaids voice returns in this one

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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...