Poets, A-Z

First performed in 1600-01 and published in quarto edition in 1603, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark with its brilliant depiction of the hero's struggle with two opposing forces - moral integrity and the need to avenge his father's murder - highlights some of the most fundamental them... More

"No edition of these difficult and controversial poems will command agreement at all points, but this must now be the edition of first resort," says Paul Hammond, "Review of English Studies." This new edition, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones, is the clearest, most complete and up-to-date there is.'... More

Presents the Spanish text and English translation of Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias as well as poems selected from works including Romancero Gitano, Canciones, and Poeta en Nueva York... More

The new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry-sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent ... More

Touching, joyful, evocative -- and beautifully illustrated by Eve Garnett -- these 64 poems perfectly capture a child's wonder, imagination, and fascination with everyday things. From the make-believe world of "The Land of the Counterpane" to the simple pleasure of "At the Seaside", the curiosity of... More

Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, the singer/songwriters first published book, now released for a new generation, contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20.Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, "Let Us Compare Mythologies" is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of pri... More

This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purlained Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House ... More

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time.... More

Charles Bukowski's gamble in art was as prolific as it was audacious. The second in Black Sparrow's series of posthumous volumes of Bukowski's poetry takes us deeper into the raw, wild vein that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s. As in Bone Palace Ballet (1997), Buk here observes the world w... More

For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force t... More

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour - a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his ... More

Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?," Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge... More

This volume in the exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare features: vivid, readable introduction for each poem by noted scholar David Bevington, modern spelling and punctuation, comprehensive text notes, an-up-to-date, annotated bibliography, and an index to the first lines of the... More

Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans," and "Lonesome Traveler" -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here,... More

"Slouching Toward Nirvana" is the third of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great Charles Bukowski, "the uncrowned poet laureate of Los Angeles."--"Los Angeles Times."in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the b... More

Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry col... More

Detailed, luminous watercolor-and-ink paintings capture the magic of nighttime, and its many nocturnal creatures, as well as the special love between a father and son. Full color.So begins Robert Louis Stevenson's famous poem "The Moon," Now Tracey Campbell Pearson takes readers on an illustrative l... More

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Bil... More