Paul Valery's most celebrated collection Charmes was first published in 1922. It contains several of his most famous poems, including "ebauche d'un serpent" and "Le cimetiere marin" – in Yvor Winters' view "the two greatest short poems ever written"....

Henry Reed (1914-1986) is most familiar as the author of "The Naming of Parts", the best-loved and most anthologised poem of the Second World War. He was a poet of much greater scope than that: in addition to publishing "A Map of Verona", his 1946 co...

By turns sensual and incantatory, "Common Prayer" offers a liturgy for a world in crisis. Meditations on the actuality of sickness and bereavement move outward through narratives of the broken body of Europe's violent twentieth century. Challenging a...

One of our earliest English critics, Ben Jonson, famously wished that he had written Southwell's "Burning Babe", the most famous poem of the body of spiritual verse written by the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert Southwell SJ (1561-1595)...

Rimbaud called him "le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu", and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenili...

Michael Hamburger's fifth collection since the publication of "Collected Poems 1941-1994" gathers his poems written during 2004-2006, a productive period in which he set aside translation work to concentrate on his own poetry. His intimate knowledge...

Although she is best known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge was herself a writer of rare intelligence and great versatility, and a very notable poet. Her poetry has never been published as a collection, so it has never had t...

The first volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, "Personal Terms", was greeted in the TLS as "a small masterpiece". With the publication of "Cuts and Bruises", the third volume, we can see the sequence unfolding into a major literary achievement. C...

Anthony Hecht described Donald Justice as "among other things, the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens". This memorial volume of his complete poetry testifies to his subtle and enduring brilliance. With painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance he end...

Greg Delanty's seven collections, brought together in a single volume, along with previously uncollected poems, reveal his resourcefulness and engaging wit. Delanty explores common experiences – family life, love, friendship, the natural world and th...