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This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of The Prelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poet's death in 1850. In addition the editors include the two-... More

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

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPThe story of the Trojan War, an epic tale of men and gods, of the heroes and horrors of war.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A timeline of significant events tha... More

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emoti... 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

This second edition of John Donne's Poetry presents a large selection of his most significant work. To the more than one hundred poems of the First Edition, nineteen new poems have now been added-five Elegies, four Satires (enabling the reader to view them as a sequence, as they have come to be rega... More

Works by modern and Victorian critics are presented together with poems from each stage of Browning's literary career... 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

Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury.... More

Mad Love has been acknowledged as an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented ... More

A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to "The Best Poems of the English Language," A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology "The Best Poems English Language" is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers ... More

One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworthas lifea from a... More

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most ... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More