Neil Philip

This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth Poems of Love and Marriage Poems of Life Poems of Loss and Comfort Poems of War and Peace...

The world's great fables, sagas, and legends dramatically retold. Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for all our stories, with their eternal themes of creation and destruction, fate and cunning, heroism and cruelty, sensuality and war. Retold here are nearly 200 myths—from Prometheus defying Zeus to create man to the destruction...