Literary studies: poetry and poets

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer .

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know written and read by Colm Toibin.

My Last Duchess, How they Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix 'Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came, Prospice, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Home - Thoughts from Abroad, The Lost Leader, Porphyria's Lover, Memorabilia, Rabbi Ben Ezra, 'The Year at the spring', The Bishop Orders His Tomb, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo LippiREAD BY JAMES MASON.

William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets and this wonderful recording is now available for the first time as a digital download.

The poetic output of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was modest and fragmentary, but included some of the greatest poems of the Romantic period.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEA magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers - to be published on National Poetry Day by prize-winning biographer Jonathan Bate.

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Book of Longing written and read by Leonard Cohen.

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens.