Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), essayist, reviewer, dramatist, novelist, librettist and poet, became one of the most popular authors in that "age of authors", especially for The Vicar of Wakefield. In this selection of his poetry and prose, John Lucas...

"In The story of Marie Powell, Wife to Mr. Milton" (1943) Robert Graves – half a century before Carol Ann Duffy – creates a Mrs for a famous Mr, a Mr who Graves regards as one of the heinous monsters in the English poetic pantheon. Certainly his Mrs...

"The Song Atlas" is the world's first anthology of poetry from every country in the world. Five years in the making, the creation of such a book as almost as interesting as the poems contained therein. Making "The Song Atlas" by John Gallas Start...

The books paired here make up the first collaborative study of "Modernist" poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. In "A Survey of Modernist Poetry", Laura Riding and Robert Graves produce a contemporary reaction t...

"Selected Poems" is a comprehensive selection of poetry written over seven decades. His unique style emphasises belief in a unity between inner and outer worlds, between subjective and objective, between the poetry, the philosophy and the private lif...

David Morley declares, "The concept of this text is that each piece of writing is a scientific paper of itself, a series of findings. The practice of writing science and poetry is, for me, a single discussion of perception carried out with the same e...

This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the nineteenth century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic...

Loiuse Gluck has long practised poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal and...

This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work. Victor Hugo's novels "Les Miserables" and "The...