Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2860

Secondhand Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2860

Twenty-one poetry books covering the Anglo-American tradition from multiple angles — critical studies and collected poems of Yeats and Larkin, Eliot, Lowell, R.S. Thomas, and Ezra Pound, alongside major anthologies of American and British verse. A serious reader's box.

1. Regency Poets: Byron, Shelley, Keats — C.R. Bull — A Melbourne University Press introduction to the three great Regency poets, presenting their lives and essential poems for readers coming to the Romantic tradition for the first time.
2. More Poems of the Second World War: The Oasis Selection — The second volume of the celebrated Oasis anthology, gathering further poems written by soldiers and civilians caught up in the conflict — one of the most important collections of Second World War poetry.
3. The Amis Anthology: A Personal Choice of English Verse — ed. Kingsley Amis — Amis's opinionated and engaging personal selection from the English poetic tradition, revealing as much about the anthologist as about the poems — witty, idiosyncratic, and essential.
4. The Poetry Makers 3 — James McGrath (Bodley Head Series) — The third in the Bodley Head series offering close readings and contextual analysis of key poems, designed to develop active engagement with verse.
5. The Poetry of William Butler Yeats — Monarch Notes — A critical study guide providing comprehensive background and analysis of Yeats's major works — useful context for students and serious readers approaching his poetry for the first time.
6. Yeats: Last Poems — ed. Jon Stallworthy (Casebook Series) — Stallworthy's Casebook gathering the best critical responses to the poems Yeats wrote in the final years of his life — essential context for some of the most extraordinary verse in the English language.
7. The Integrity of Yeats — ed. Denis Donoghue — A collection of the Thomas Davis Lectures on Yeats, offering scholarly perspectives on the unity and coherence of his artistic vision across more than fifty years of writing.
8. Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays — ed. John Unterecker (Twentieth Century Views) — A Prentice-Hall collection of major critical essays gathering the most important twentieth-century responses to Yeats's work in one authoritative volume.
9. The Faber Book of Nonsense Verse — ed. Geoffrey Grigson — Grigson's wide-ranging Faber anthology celebrating the great tradition of English nonsense and comic verse, from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll through to the twentieth century.
10. R.S. Thomas — Everyman's Poetry — A selection from one of the twentieth century's most spiritually intense and uncompromising poets, whose Welsh landscape and religious doubt produced some of the most searching verse in the language.
11. ABC of Reading — Ezra Pound — Pound's idiosyncratic and influential guide to reading poetry, combining critical principles with exemplary close readings — essential for understanding both Pound's method and the modernist tradition he helped create.
12. The Golden Treasury of Longer Poems — ed. Ernest Rhys (Everyman's Library) — Rhys's Everyman anthology gathering the great extended poems of the English tradition — a companion to Palgrave's Golden Treasury that rescues the longer forms from neglect.
13. Contemporary American Poetry — ed. Donald Hall (Revised and Enlarged Edition) — Hall's landmark anthology, which introduced a generation of readers to mid-twentieth-century American poetry — Plath, Sexton, Creeley, and their contemporaries.
14. Philip Larkin: Collected Poems — ed. Anthony Thwaite — Thwaite's definitive edition of Larkin's complete poems, including previously unpublished work — essential reading for one of the most loved and most quoted poets of the twentieth century.
15. Robert Lowell's Poems: A Selection — ed. Jonathan Raban — Raban's selection from across Lowell's career, with an introduction that remains one of the best short accounts of why Lowell matters — an ideal entry point to a formidable poet.
16. Selected Poems — T.S. Eliot (Faber) — The essential Faber selection from the poet who redefined what English-language poetry could be — from Prufrock through The Waste Land to the Four Quartets — indispensable.
17. The Modern Poet: An Anthology — ed. Gwendolen Murphy — A Faber anthology gathering the work of the modern movement's key voices, offering a broad overview of how poetry changed in the first decades of the twentieth century.
18. Pergamon Poets 4: Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins — selected by Evan Owen — A volume in the Pergamon English Library series bringing together two poets of the visionary tradition — Raine's Platonic mysticism alongside Watkins's Welsh symbolism.
19. The Penguin Book of American Verse — ed. Geoffrey Moore — Moore's comprehensive Penguin anthology spanning American poetry from the colonial era to the twentieth century — the standard single-volume introduction to the tradition.
20. The Whitsun Weddings — Philip Larkin — Larkin's 1964 collection and perhaps his most celebrated — the title poem alone justifies the price, and the remaining thirty-one poems sustain that standard across every page.
21. The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse — ed. Geoffrey Moore — An earlier Moore anthology focusing specifically on twentieth-century American poetry — a distinct and important document of how mid-century readers understood the American poetic tradition.