Genre
Poetry.
From the tender sonnets of Shakespeare to the sweeping epics of Homer and Virgil, our poetry shelves hold the voices that have shaped language and imagination. Whether you're seeking the rhythmic pulse of Whitman's Leaves of Grass or the eerie beauty of Poe's Raven, each volume here invites you into a world where every word sings. We've also tucked in a few surprises—a rare guide to versification, a Victorian book of ballads, and yes, even Little Women, because poetry lives as much in prose as in verse.
Adventure
The Odyssey
Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.
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Classics
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.
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Adventure
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
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Children
Cautionary Tales for Children
Hilaire Belloc's wickedly funny verse follows children who lie, slam doors, chew string and generally misbehave, and meet gloriously exaggerated fates.
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Adventure
Homer's Odyssey
Homer's timeless epic of homecoming, in Samuel Butler's clear English prose.
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Classics
Imaginary Conversations and Poems
Walter Savage Landor's celebrated prose dialogues, in which historical and legendary figures meet across the centuries to argue, reflect, and confide, gathered here with a selectio
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Adventure
The Aeneid of Virgil
Virgil’s epic of exile, destiny, war, and empire follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding myth of Rome.
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Classics
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
The complete lyric world of Scotland's national poet, from tender love songs to biting satire.
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Non-fiction
The Principles of English Versification
A scholarly study of the craft and theory of English verse, examining metre, rhythm, rhyme, and poetic form.
$7.50
Children
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
The great Middle English romance in which Sir Gawain accepts a mysterious stranger's deadly game, and rides out to keep a bargain that will test his courage, courtesy and truth to
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Children
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
The essential companion to Homer: Hesiod's poems of the gods and the farming year, the Homeric Hymns, and the surviving fragments of early Greek epic.
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Classics
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius's magnificent philosophical poem, which sets out an atomist vision of a universe made of matter and void, aiming to free the mind from fear of the gods and of death.
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Classics
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
The complete three series of Emily Dickinson's poems, the quiet Amherst recluse whose compressed, dazzling verse remade American poetry.
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Classics
The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronologi
The biting verse satires of Rome's great satirists, Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius, rendered into English prose with notes, offering an unsparing portrait of ancient Roman
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History
The Beginnings of Poetry
A scholarly inquiry into where poetry comes from, tracing verse back to song, ritual and the communal life of early peoples.
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Classics
The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.
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Classics
The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2
The gathered poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founding voices of English Romanticism.
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Children
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
Ovid's dazzling epic of transformation rendered into English blank verse across two volumes.
$8.50
Classics
Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres
Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.
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Children
The Aeneid
Virgil's great Roman epic, following the Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding of a new destiny in Italy.
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Poetry
Life: Poem XXI
A short poem meditating on life itself, in the reflective lyric tradition.
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Poetry
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
The collected poetry of one of the Victorian age's finest voices, ranging from elegy and lyric to meditations on faith, culture, and loss.
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Classics
Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell
Dante's Inferno in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated English translation, following the poet's descent through the nine circles of Hell.
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Children
The Ballad of the White Horse
G.K.
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Poetry
India's Love Lyrics
Lush, longing, unmistakably late-Victorian verse of romance and India, written under the name Laurence Hope.
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Classics
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron's landmark narrative poem follows a brooding, world-weary wanderer across Europe, blending travel, reflection and passionate feeling to create the archetypal Byronic her
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Children
Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
A pioneering collection of the songs and ballads of the American West, gathered from the range and the trail.
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Non-fiction
Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie
Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.
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Classics
Paradise Lost
John Milton's towering epic of the fall of humankind, telling of Satan's rebellion, the loss of Eden, and the temptation of Adam and Eve.
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Classics
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice.
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Poetry
Erotica Romana
A cycle of elegies celebrating love, sensuality, and the intoxication of Rome, by one of the giants of European letters.
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Classics
The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870
A Victorian gathering of ballads, drawing on the long tradition of narrative song and verse.
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Classics
I. Beowulf
The great Old English epic, sung in a mead-hall world of monsters, gold, and doom.
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Humor
Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects
A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.
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Classics
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated sequence of love sonnets, among the most cherished in English.
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Biography & Memoir
Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's landmark of literary autobiography and criticism, blending the story of his intellectual life with profound reflections on poetry, imagination, and philos
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Classics
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.
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Children
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
The opening book of Edmund Spenser's great Elizabethan epic, following the Red Cross Knight and the lady Una on a quest that is at once a thrilling romance and a rich allegory of h
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Classics
Don Juan
The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.
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Poetry
The Story of Genesis and Exodus
An early Middle English verse retelling of the opening books of the Bible, rendering the great stories of creation, the patriarchs, and the deliverance from Egypt in the poetry of
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Children
Poems Every Child Should Know
A beloved anthology gathering the poems generations were once expected to grow up with — verses to be memorised, recited, and carried for life.
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Historical Fiction
The Lady of the Lake
Sir Walter Scott's sweeping narrative poem of the Scottish Highlands, weaving love, honour, and clan rivalry around a mysterious lady and a hunted king.
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Children
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII
The first seven books of Ovid's dazzling poem of transformation, from the making of the world through a cascade of myths in which gods and mortals are changed into beast, tree and
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Children
The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
One of the great epics of India, the story of Rama's exile, the abduction of Sita, and the war to reclaim her, rendered into English verse.
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Children
Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
Sophocles' towering tragedy of the king who unknowingly fulfills a terrible prophecy, here in a rhyming English verse translation with explanatory notes.
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Adventure
Beowulf
The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.
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Classics
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology lets the dead of a small American town speak in piercing monologues of ambition, shame, desire, and regret.
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Classics
The Divine Comedy
Dante’s epic pilgrimage through the afterlife remains a staggering work of imagination, where every sin and virtue takes vivid, often terrifying form.
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