Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

Love Speaks Its Name offers an extraordinary exploration of love through the powerful lens of classic gay and lesbian poetry. This remarkable anthology brings together a profound collection of poems from some of the most illustrious voices in literary history, spanning varied cultures and eras. The essence of this collection lies in the myriad expressions of love, longing, and desire...

An unprecedented collection of newly translated poems spanning the rich thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people. The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry—indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period, Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the ghazal, which spoke...

Fruits of the Earth- Harvest Poems is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and spices, and their meaning in our lives. Ever since Eve plucked a tempting apple in the Garden of Eden, the fruits of the earth have been essential to human culture and the stories...

Collectable, beautifully presented hardback of Anna Akhmatova's greatest poems, edited by D. M. Thomas. His translations of Akhmatova have been described by John Bayley as 'a masterly achievement'. He has translated 19 additional poems especially for this Everyman edition. From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in...

An anthology which explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and across the ages. Rivers were the arteries of our first civilisations — the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China — and have nourished modern cities from London to New York. It is natural that poets...

From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong—a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through the ages. Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out—a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare,...

The poems in this book are dazzling celebrations of God's endless creative power couched in a uniquely expressive poetic diction. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean HTML, use your best judgement for adjusting or adding appropriate tags for paragraphs, and emphasis.

Favourite poems from some of the most popular poets in the English language mingle with those that may be lesser known but are no less compelling. Women Romantic poets take their rightful place in the line-up. 'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' - William Wordsworth No generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than...

A deeply researched treasury of fairy poems from across the centuries and around the world. Elves, changelings, leprechauns, pixies, brownies and sprites; England's Queen Mab, France's Melusine, Scandinavian nixies and Scottish selkies—these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, always enchanting. This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Titania, and Keats's...

In this unique selection, popular giants of the Romantic movement—Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Heine—are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English, including some formidably talented women. German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song—the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known...