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As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further...

William Wordsworth (1770 1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its ...

Samson Agonistes, the 'dramatic poem' by John Milton, was published in 1671, three years before the poet's death. Written in the form of a Gr...

Although the poet John Donne lived so long ago, some phrases from his writing still linger with us today, such as no man is an island, death,...

This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeles...

This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works.

Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD ...

Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate...

No poet is more closely identified with the First World War than Wilfred Owen. His striking body of work, grim to the point of brutality yet,...

A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). One of the Victorian era’s greatest writers, Hopkins&r...

"I Kiss Cold Glass is a timeless treasure: unputdownable and unforgettable." Reader's review. "Beautiful, full of loving wisdom." Reader's r...

In A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman recreates a nostalgic world of lost love, lost youth, thwarted friendships, unfaithful girls, male bonding,...

John Masefield (1878–1967) was one of the most prolific, popular and successful poets of the twentieth century. Masefield broke upon Ed...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced their Lyri...

Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death,...

Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets – represented by their most popular poems on one CD – with Willia...

This anthology contains many of Kipling’s most famous poems, If, Mandalay, Gunga Din. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of t...

Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD ...

Milton stands alongside Shakespeare and the Bible in the power of his verse and its continuing impact. He is one of the great voices of Engli...

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was born in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleri...

Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Ro...

The idiosyncratic Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall has the unusual reputation as one of the worst poets in the English language with rh...

The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759–1796), one of the most popular of poets, is celebrated in 2009. A pioneer of t...

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), one of the most popular of poets, is celebrated in 2009. Works...

‘One of the best anthologies of the year… An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-st...

This selection of Hardy’s poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humour and evocative power, ranging from charming anthol...

In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve and forced their departure from the Garden of Ede...

The letters of Keats between 1816 and 1821 are passionate, revealing and sensitive. Furthermore, it was within the context of these letters t...

Sacred Elephant is a moving portrayal of the world’s largest land-living mammal. The poem explores the life of elephants in their natur...

Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A ‘green classic’ read with natura...

Unplugged! If there is a single word capable to accurately summarise the atmosphere of this book, that is for sure the most appropriate given...

A book of assorted poems about life.

These poems were mostly written in 1987 while recovering in Clifton, Bristol in England. It heralded the start of a huge change for me, and I...

A collection of inspirational poems ACHE - because Anxiety Can Hurt Everyone

My book Reflections is a small book of poems which I wrote after thinking back to some of my situations, and of other people who I have known...

A Small Poem Book about Anxiety

A collection of the best of poet William Blake.