This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation as a lyricist & as a much-loved Scottish poet Placing works in probable order of composition it

Includes:: lyrics to his most well known songs such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne the romantic A Red Red Rose & the patriotic Scots What Hae As a poet Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity & imaginative sympathy & demonstrated enormous range
- from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer which mocks hypocrisy to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter about the ghostly visions of a drunk


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WB Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction & notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics Few have lived their ideas so passionately & nobly as WB Yeats in his love affairs politics & poetry From his youth in the 1880s a fertile dreamer rediscovering & remaking the Irish tradition he grew into a great & innovative poet of the twentieth century This selection of Yeats's work

Includes:: the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin & a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy It also

Includes:: explanatory & textual notes for each poem W B Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great & innovative poets of the twentieth century Much of his most vigorous verse on love sex Irish & international politics the complexities of the occult & the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 & his death in 1939 If you enjoyed Selected Poems you might like The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry also available in Penguin Classics'A compelling poetic presence together with Joyce Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible' Timothy Webb



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This selection provides an excellent introduction to Ezra Pound's poetry for the general reader & for the student of contemporary literature It takes the place of the pioneer edition edited by T S Eliot which was published in 1928 A representative group of early poems is included; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Cathay & Homage to Sextus Propertius are printed complete; & there is a selection from the Cantos up to & including Drafts & Fragments (1969) ...

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy & has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann) Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals' Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet this volume chosen by the poet himself serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual high jinx & emotional honesty Among his many honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry & the Shakespeare Prize 'for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance' ...

Dealing with the densities of the poets expression & the forces in his syntax & rhythms this poetry aims to achieve a strength memorability & precision beyond the abilities of any other poet writing in English 288 pages Hill Geoffrey ...

Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century By 1917 when he was killed on the Western Front he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets This title brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside 304 pages Thomas Edward ...

One of Spain's greatest & most well-loved poets Lorca is admired for the emotional intensity & dark brilliance of his work From the playful Suites to his dark vision of urban life Poet in New York his range was remarkable This title provides versions by various poets & translators drawing on books of poems published by Lorca 368 pages Lorca Federico Garcia ...

Byron's poetry took Europe by storm in the early nineteenth century & the poems which made him a star are here represented by a selection of the early lyrics including still popular pieces such as ' She walks in beauty' & ' We'll go a no more a-roving' 288 pages Byron Lord George Gordon ...

Previously published as The Essential Rumi Rumi's Selected Poems is translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne in Penguin Classics Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher mystic scholar & founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul & brims with exuberant energy & passion Rich in natural imagery from horses to fishes flowers to birds & rivers to stars the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries Their themes
- tolerance goodness the experience of God charity & awareness through love
- still resonate with millions of readers around the world Coleman Barks's vibrant translation conveys the directness & originality of Rumi's poetry This edition is divided into thematic sections each with an introduction &

Includes:: a biographical essay on Rumi Called ' Jelaluddin Rumi' by the Persians & Afghans Rumi (1207-1273) was born in Balkh Afghanistan then part of the Persian Empire He was the greatest mystical poet of Persia famous for his didactic epic Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets) a treasure-house of Sufi mysticism If you enjoyed Selected Poems you might like Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Coleman Barks has provided a version of Rumi that sparkles & never flags both & otherworldly' John Ryle Guardian



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The peerless U A Fanthorpe roots herself in the very earth of English poetry connecting herself to Hughes & Browning but also & more pertinently to the real experience of English living so clear-eyed & so well completely poetic -Stephen Fry 160 pages Fanthorpe U A ...