Poetry

A bilingual volume of some of Kaifi Azmi’s finest poetry One of the finest Urdu poets of the subcontinent, Kaifi Azmi has borne witness to an entire era of social change. Born in 1918 in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, in a zamindar family, Azmi wrote his first poem at the age of eleven. He joined t... More

The Collected Poems comprises all the volumes of poetry that Vikram Seth has published this far. The books included are Mappings (1981), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990), Three Chinese Poets (1992), Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992... More

The Faerie Queene is famous as an extended allegorical poem, so this guide encourages the reader to think about the process of reading, and particularly of reading allegory. The Faerie Queene is a demanding poem which requires not only an actively engaged reader but a reader prepared to learn differ... More

Bukowski for Beginners,evaluates the life and literary achievements of the 'cult writer' whose voice of dissidence and discontent is still being heard and appreciated by readers worldwide. The books in this series deal with a vast and diverse range of subjects—history, philosophy, current events, ... More

A collection of new translations of the thirteenth century poet Rumi's love poems. These classic works of mysticism and desire inspired countless people in Rumi's time and throughout the centuries. Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi ex... More

Even those uninitiated to Tagore will identify, or perhaps even view as synonymous, Tagore and Gitanjali - Tagore's Nobel Prize-winning work. Most of us are not aware of the fact that the contents of the English Gitanjali (song offerings) are not identical with the Bengali book of poems bearing the ... More

The phenomenally successful Penguin Yearbook is now in its fourth year of publication. The Penguin Yearbook 2008 is better than ever before, and will serve as a constant companion through the year to look up facts and figures of every kind.The Penguin Yearbook 2008 starts with a thorough Year in Rev... More

The Association of castration, blindeness, and death, so crucial in Freud, is already a given in Chaucer, just as the strangely authentic power of the Pardoner's sermon, which transcends his overt tricksterism, testifies to the weird prolepsis of Dostoevsky in the Canterbury Tales. A Professional hy... More

This long-awaited omnibus contains all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books—Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch—plus eight further tales of the unexpected… 'Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive.... More

The book is an enchanting story of how the independence movement becomes a tangible reality in a tiny and secluded village in South India. The novel has the flavour of an epic as it emerges through the eyes of a delightful old woman who comments with wisdom and humour, on the variety and complexity... More

Acclaimed by Forster and Pound, for Yeats the poet whose poetry 'stirred my blood as nothing has for years', Tagore was and remains India's greatest writer this century. Prolific and innovatory as poet, novelist, dramatist, musician and painter, he was also a leading figure in the Nationalist moveme... More

Willard Espy's Words to Rhyme With is the ultimate collection of rhyming words and technique from a master of wordplay. This essential comprehensive resource for poets and songwriters is back in print with expanded material on rhyming and word usage. Containing more than 80,000 words, both common an... More

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Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) is one of the pre-eminent writers of the Indian subcontinent and the attention he has received from writers, translators and critics in western as well as Islamic countries testifies to his stature as a world literary figure. In his translation of Iqbal’s poetry, Musta... More