Classic & pre-20th century poetry
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A Shropshire Lad
£12.99A Shropshire Lad
A series of verses set in the half-imaginary Shropshire, ‘A Shropshire Lad’ is Housman’s most famous collection of poetry. Initially self-published, with little profit, it became hugely popular during World War I.
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Haiku
£9.99Haiku
Haiku features 80 classic poems from four poets – Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki – which range across more than 200 years of Japanese poetry. Each poem is presented in Japanese script, along with romanised Japanese (romaji), a new English translation and an illustration echoing the poem’s theme.Â
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Poems to swipe right to
£10.99Poems to swipe right to
A charming collection of classic poetry encapsulating the nuances of modern dating.
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Robert Burns – nature poems
£10.00Robert Burns – nature poems
This enchanting collection of more than 80 poems captures the essence of the natural world, as seen through the eyes of Scotland’s beloved bard. Each chapter explores a different aspect of nature – from wild, mossy mountains and glens to murmuring streams, the sorrowful song of the woodlark, and the ever-changing seasons. Burns’s profound appreciation for the landscape of Scotland and its creatures shines through every verse, and this collection is a heartfelt love letter to his homeland.
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The complete nonsense books
£12.99The complete nonsense books
This collection contains all of Lear’s most celebrated verse and prose productions, from the 1846 volume of limericks, A Book of Nonsense, to his Nonsense Songs, which includes à The Owl and the Pussy Cat’, long considered one of the nation’s favourite poems, and lesser-known pieces composed in the same waywardly imaginative vein. Embodying his passion for nonsense, Lear’s limericks, stories, poems, alphabets and miscellaneous pieces, each accompanied by one of the author’s beguiling original illustrations, are fun, lyrical, lively and hilarious, and have enchanted children and adults since their first appearance in print.
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The owl and the nightingale
£12.99The owl and the nightingale
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s version of this entertaining Middle English debate poem.
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The Penguin book of elegy
£14.99The Penguin book of elegy
Elegy is among the world’s oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. In perhaps the purest instance of art’s fundamental ‘impulse to preserve’ (Philip Larkin), it gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate for long, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In ‘The Penguin Book of Elegy’, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, selecting the best and most significant poems and poets from the Classical roots of elegy, and from its Renaissance revival down to the present day.
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The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
£3.99The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
During Emily’s life only seven of her 1775 poems were published. This collection of her work shows her breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Once branded an eccentric Dickinson is now regarded as a major American poet.
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The Sonnets
£9.99The Sonnets
A gorgeous, pocket-sized gift edition of Shakespeare’s famous cycle of poems featuring an afterword by Peter Harness.
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William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
£20.00William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
A beautiful cloth-bound edition of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, delicately illustrated with his exquisite designs, and accompanied by an introduction to his life and work.
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Written in water
£12.99Written in water
On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to restore his health. Anguished at the thought of having to part, possibly for ever, from his fiancée and his friends, troubled by money worries and broken in body and mind, the young poet launched on his last journey on Earth with both a sense of hope and a deep foreboding that his efforts would be in vain. Despite Keats’s own assertion that by then he no longer felt a citizen of the world and was leading a ‘posthumous life’, his final five months were filled with events of great biographical interest, and deserve to be examined much more carefully. Using exclusively primary sources and first-hand accounts, Keats’s editor and translator Alessandro Gallenzi has pieced together all the available material.
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