Eavan Boland has praised Grevel Lindop's "lyric voice that handles images well, that distinguishes – as few poets do – the erotic from the sexual, that moves language in and out of metaphor with skill and grace". The erotic and the sexual are richly...

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is one of the best-loved of English poets. His comic invention and unconstrained sense of the absurd have been enjoyed by generations of children, and treasured by adults conscious of the subtle melancholy that underlies the f...

Two classic tales of dogs, one part wolf and one a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix that becomes leader of a wolf pack, as they have adventures in the Yukon wilderness with both humans and other animals.

"Walking the Animals" is a sort of travel book: it brings together inner and outer landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and the drought of the South African lowveld; landscapes of loss, landscapes of longing. Carola Luther tracks journeys betwee...

Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, poet, humorist, critic, letterwriter and friend, has an enduring literary reputation. His early "Tales from Shakespeare" (1807), written in collaboration with his sister Mary, and "Specimens of English Dramatic Poe...

At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: "One-Way Song", and "Enemy of the...

The "De Rerum Natura of Lucretius" (99BC-55BC) is one of the great books of the world, a lucid explanation of physical phenomena that develops into a majestic vision of the ultimate nature of the universe. Lucretius' observations of the particulari...

"He is an exquisite poet, a deliverer of nations... a father of light", said Ezra Pound in 1918 of Jules Laforgue. Among the most innovative of poets in the French language, Laforgue was an important influence on the young T. S. Eliot. Part symbolist...

Peter Levi's final collection contains the moving lyrics he composed, often while walking round the green in the Gloucestershire village where he lived, as well as other poems written since "Reed Music" (1997). Despite his increasing blindness, his p...

"Transparently accomplished", as John Kerrigan has written: "his work displays the kind of internal 'itinerary' which (in Mandelstam's language) is the mark of achieved poetry". This book selects the best work from thirty years of that itinerary, a...