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This masterly edition contains all of Milton's English poems, with the exception of Paradise Lost, together with translations and texts of all his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. First published in 1968 - and substantially updated in 1996 - John Carey's edition has, with Alastair Fowler's Paradise Lost, established itself as the pre-eminent edition of Milton's poetry, both for the student and the general reader.

The Poems of Alexander Pope is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Alexander Pope resulting from a thorough reappraisal of his work. Volume One contains the poetry that appeared between 1709 and 1714.

Drawn from the author's own "The Poems of Tennyson", this book includes in full all four of Tennyson's long poems - "The Princess", "In Memoriam", "Maud", and "Idylls of the King" - as well as other great poems including "Mariana", "The Lady of Shalott", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses" and "Tithonus". It is of interest to scholars and students.

Little known as a poet in his own time, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was a patriotic politician and champion of religious toleration during the Restoration. This book presents his poetry, accompanied by annotations giving a record of literary, philosophical and theological analogues and allusions. It also addresses the local points of interpretation.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the fifth volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation.

This edition brings Jonson's three major publications, Epigrams (1616), The Forest (1616), and Underwood (1641) together with his large body of uncollected poems to create the largest collection of Jonson¿s verse that has been published.

Prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions of Dryden's work, volume three of "The Poems of John Dryden" covers the poems written by the writer between 1686 and 1696. The poet's language is glossed in unprecedented detail.

The first part of a three-volume edition of Dryden's poems. This work aims to present a complete rethinking of the text, canon and dating of Dryden's poetry, together with a substantial body of annotation which draws on previous editions, on subsequent scholarship and on new research.

An anthology of the poems of Shelley arranged in chronological order of their composition. Each has a note of its general significance, footnotes elucidating any difficult points and a discussion of its meaning and occasion. Recent scholarship and criticism are also included.

John Dryden (1631-1700) was the dominant literary figure of his age. Drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume "The Poems of John Dryden", this work includes a selection of his most important work.