Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864.

The wonder of birds has charmed and inspired poets down the centuries and across the globe.

A new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.

Spanish contemporary poetry: An anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close readings of each poem.

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.

Over 600 poets have been given voice in this series which was started five years ago, making it an important archive of new African poetry.

This Companion casts post-1945 American poetry as a coherent literary movement, making the period''s most difficult offerings comprehensible and accessible.

In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

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This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period.

Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago.

Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry from the canon to its extensions and its contexts.

Postwar Italian poetry carries on the legacy of one of the worlds richest literary traditions, a tradition in which conflict and diversity are important parts.

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

This collection of short stories, anecdotes, and poems was likely compiled during the 13th century.

The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes.

Staying Human is the sequel to the Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies which have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry.

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson.

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "e;[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.

An accurate, elegant rendering of major late-medieval texts, crucial to our understanding of the courtly tradition and of Chaucer.

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski.

With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes.

Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today.

Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "e;the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital,"e; Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital from the city's founding in 1800 to 1930.

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "e;a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart,"e; to the trust of Noah who builds "e;a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures,"e; the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder.

A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age

By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible.

Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "e;there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"e;--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry.

Identity Parade presents new British and Irish poetry at a time of great vibrancy and variety.

The perfect gift for Valentine s Day'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with harmony'Love's Labour's Lost, William ShakespeareWhen Love Speaks brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.

The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry';a ';best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune)collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.

This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.

Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing.

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex.

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

In Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology there are 18 French speaking African poets from DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Chad, Senegal, Comoros and more.

Kenneth Rosens haunting volume of poetry proves that the powerful and moving voice of Native Americans must be heard.

Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive poetry trilogy.

This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar).

David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation .

Selected by editor Aislinn Hunter, the 2025 edition ofBest Canadian Poetryshowcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023.

Step into the enchanting realm of Faeries, Sprites & Malevolent Spirits, where the exquisite beauty and treacherous allure of the unseelie court come to life through classic poetry and stories.

This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi) and one national (Urdu).

The title should have warned me.

This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions.