Poetry

Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides ma...

After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general r...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE. . . Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction”a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, ...

Product Description. A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherina and to make her his wife. . . A rough-and-tumble farce...

A new selection of Yeats' poetry including the most significant and interesting variants of the major poems, as well as a brief explanatory paragra...

In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and ...

A carefully-selected collection of themed quotations to honor Shakespeare's legacy to the world in the 400th anniversary of the death of the most f...

The Inferno is the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. In it, the author is lost in...

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive ...

With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of...

From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generou...

Coulton's expedition into fourteenth-century England and the life of Chaucer, first published in 1908, remains an excellent resource for any reader...

Brings together the full contents of all eleven of Frost's individual books of verse, from 'A Boy's Will' through 'In the Clearing'.

Exploring and exalting the complex art of form poetry in the Canadian literary canon, this comprehensive and groundbreaking anthology brings 175 po...

A book filled with prose and poetry, expressing what most of us feel--a wonder and delight in our friends. The matching gift box makes this a speci...

This enchanting collection of writings and photographs evokes the beauty, humor and courage of women living in their later years and tells of the e...

Like the "page turned down to make another / page," Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantl...

One of the most famous poems in the English language, "The Raven" first appeared in the January 29, 1845, edition of the New York Evening Mirror. I...

Reading any great poem for the first time is always a thrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and this collection brings together s...

Reading any great poem for the first time is always a thrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and this collection brings together s...

Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolano as he saw himself, in his own first ...

A new collection by the winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Tim Lilburn's award-winning work has observed the natural world with an ...

Earle Birney (1904-1995), the father of modern Canadian poetry, was one of Canada's finest writers and the author of "David," arguably the most pop...

A master translator's beautiful and accessible rendering of the seminal Chinese text. In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ch...