Classic poetry

Poems from the Moor

Emily Bronte

This edition of Emily Bronte’s poems contains a substantial amount of extra material, including notes, pictures and a section on Bronte’s life and works.

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Brontes: Selected Poems

Charlotte Bronte,Emily Bronte,Anne Bronte

A beautiful collection of poems from the powerfully talented and much-loved Bronte sisters. ‘Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel’ Charlotte Bronte

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Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day Selected Poems contains Neruda’s resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile.

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Selected Poems

William Yeats

Features a selection of the works of W B Yeats, which includes the narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin . This title also includes poems in alternative versions; and in…

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Selected Poems

E. E. Cummings

No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader. -Randall Jarrell

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The Temple

George Herbert

A collectible Penguin Classics series: beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets.

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses

Thomas Hardy

A collectible Penguin Classics series: beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets.

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A Shropshire Lad

A.E. Housman

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. This title celebrates this long tradition with various aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man’s relationship…

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Poems

Wilfred Owen

A single-volume collection of Owen’s poems to mark the centenary of his birth, compiled from Stallworthy’s scholarly 2-volume edition.

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The Tower

W B Yeats

First published in 1928, this is considered by many to be Yeats’ greatest collection. It contains many of his most famous poems, including Sailing to Byzantium and Leda and the…

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Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem

Christina Rossetti,Kirsty Gunn,Georgie McAusland

A fully illustrated volume of the classic Christina Rossetti poem, Goblin Market, which resonates still today, and is the most beautiful book for any poetry lover.

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Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield, The

Mansfield Katherine & Kimber Gerri

This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield’s development as a poet and her experiments with different forms.

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The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition

Dylan Thomas

A groundbreaking new edition of Dylan Thomas’s collected poetry.

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The Collected Poems

Robert Frost

Includes simple images that summon the rural landscape of New England, and the author unfailingly moves the reader with his profound grasp of the human condition. This title comprises all…

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Banjo Paterson Complete Poems

Banjo Paterson

Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson is the most famous - certainly the most publicly performed - Australian writer who has ever lived - The Guardian

When a young man submitted a…

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Henry Lawson Poems

Henry Lawson

The very best of Henry Lawson - heart-rending tales of the human condition, rousing poems of social protest, images of comic characters, classic portraits such as Middleton’s rouseabout, as well…

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Envelope Poems

Emily Dickinson

Another gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, the Envelope Poems is a compact clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings

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The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter

The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter draws from her life’s work to present the many facets of Porter the poet, from stretching the fabric of ancient mythology to delving…

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Popular Penguins

William Shakespeare

Presents a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This book contains poetry and themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality. It is a pocket-sized volume.

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Beowulf

Michael Alexander

Through its blend of myth and history, Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men and supernatural forces live side by side.

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Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems: Popular Penguins

Allen Ginsberg

Beat movement icon and visionary poet Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of…

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Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins

John Keats

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This wide-ranging selection of Keats’s poetry contains youthful verse, such as…

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Complete Poems

Dorothy Parker

A collection of poems.

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Selected Poems

D. H. Lawrence

A selection of poems by D.H. Lawrence selected by James Fenton

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Selected Poems

Lord Byron

Features 31 poems, including She Walks in Beauty, The Prisoner of Chillon, The Vision of Judgment, many more, plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Manfred. Explanatory footnotes.

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The Complete Poems

Emily Bronte

The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. This book contains poems attributed to…

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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling.

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Selected Poems: Keats

John Keats

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This selection of Keats’ poetry contains youthful verse, such as his…

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Selected Poems: Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

This new selection of Rossetti’s poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illuminating introduction, a chronology of Rossetti’s life and works…

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The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Coleridge

One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired…

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Classic poetry

Poems from the Moor

Brontes: Selected Poems

Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

The Temple

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

A Shropshire Lad

Poems

The Tower

Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem

Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield, The

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition

The Collected Poems

Banjo Paterson Complete Poems

Henry Lawson Poems

Envelope Poems

The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter

Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Popular Penguins

Beowulf

Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems: Popular Penguins

Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins

Complete Poems

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

The Complete Poems

Selected Poems

Selected Poems: Keats

Selected Poems: Rossetti

The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge