Poetry.

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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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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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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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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Homer's timeless epic of homecoming, in Samuel Butler's clear English prose.

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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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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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The complete lyric world of Scotland's national poet, from tender love songs to biting satire.

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A scholarly study of the craft and theory of English verse, examining metre, rhythm, rhyme, and poetic form.

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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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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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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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The complete three series of Emily Dickinson's poems, the quiet Amherst recluse whose compressed, dazzling verse remade American poetry.

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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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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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Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.

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The gathered poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founding voices of English Romanticism.

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Ovid's dazzling epic of transformation rendered into English blank verse across two volumes.

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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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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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A short poem meditating on life itself, in the reflective lyric tradition.

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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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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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Lush, longing, unmistakably late-Victorian verse of romance and India, written under the name Laurence Hope.

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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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A pioneering collection of the songs and ballads of the American West, gathered from the range and the trail.

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Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.

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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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Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice.

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A cycle of elegies celebrating love, sensuality, and the intoxication of Rome, by one of the giants of European letters.

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A Victorian gathering of ballads, drawing on the long tradition of narrative song and verse.

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The great Old English epic, sung in a mead-hall world of monsters, gold, and doom.

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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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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated sequence of love sonnets, among the most cherished in English.

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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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William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.

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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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The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Homer’s epic tale of war, honor, and divine intervention unfolds with breathtaking intensity in Alexander Pope’s translation.

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Shakespeare's Sonnets are love letters to the human condition—each verse a razor-sharp meditation on desire, mortality, and the ache of time.

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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven and Other Poems' is a shadowed journey through love, loss, and the macabre.

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