Classic and pre-20th century poetry

The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages.

A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry.

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as 'The Lamb', 'The Chimney-Sweeper' and 'The Tiger'.

A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.

Poems for Christmas is an exquisitely produced gift anthology which is guaranteed to get anyone in the festive spirit.

The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time.

A stunning book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices.

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that.

Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods'' or man''s—in this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, ''Electra'' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

‘The Trachinian Maidens’ (also ‘Women of Trachis’ or ‘The Trachiniae’) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles, in which Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, is distraught over her husband''s neglect of her family.

The poet Kabîr is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism.

Included herein are the seven surviving plays of Athens’ pre-eminent playwright, Sophocles, masterfully translated by Lewis Campbell, M.

Collected here are three hundred twenty short poems by Rabindranath Tagore.

Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish-Lithuanian poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz.

In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan.

Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn.

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus.

Follow Aeneas as he flees a burning Troy with his family and sets out on a dangerous journey to found what will one day become The Roman Empire.

My first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial.

This famous and marvellous Sanskrit poem occurs as an episode of the Mahabharata, in the sixth-or "Bhishma"-Parva of the great Hindu epic.

Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus.

John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement.

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime.

The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy.

Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest.

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.

In Poems to Live Your Life By, Chris Riddell, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between.

Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD'Inspired and enlightening .

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones.

In October 2013 Felix Dennis was told he had terminal cancer.

After winning the Trojan War, the great hero Odysseus embarks on a journey back home to Ithaca.

'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain .

From romance to rejection, the complex themes of love and desire have inspired some of the greatest poetry ever written.

Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote.

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy.

We all keep secrets.

INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREERShakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' .

Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age.

Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception.

Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition.

The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct.

The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia.

Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid is revealed anew.