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A vivid exploration of morality and the opposing views that influence each person¿s life. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake , is one of the author¿s most notable works. It offers colorful commentary on religion and politics, as well as basic spiritual concepts like good and evil.

A sailor¿s extraordinary tale of life, death and redemption after a long journey at sea. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an unsuspecting traveler is captivated by an old man¿s remarkable story of survival. Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a thought-provoking critque of nature and morality that¿s infused with supernatural themes.

Robert Frost is a poet of memories and ghosts, silences and sorrows. His music is made by the rhythms of nature: the flutter of bats at dusk, the cry of the lone whippoorwill; his images lie in the earth for the moss and grapevines to cover. A Boy¿s Will is Frost¿s first collection of poems.

Satan accompanies Jesus in his forty-day journey through the desert, determined to corrupt the son of God with worldly possessions, power, and vanity. Paradise Regained by John Milton is an epic poem based off of a biblical story. Alluding to Milton¿s most celebrated work, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained depicts similar theological themes, but follows a different target for Satan¿s ruin.

In Republic, Plato argues poets should be banned from the ideal society for their interest in illusion, in things other than the truth. In Suffrage Songs and Verses, Charlotte Perkins Gilman proves that poets are a danger to government¿not because they speak of illusions, but because they threaten the illusion by which the few hold power over the many.

Transposing English aristocratic society onto the world of the gods, Alexander Pope¿s The Rape of the Lock is the story of a grave offence against the natural order of the universe: the theft of a lock of hair.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. ¿How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.¿ Thus begins Elizabeth Barrett Browning¿s sonnet ¿XLIII,¿ the penultimate poem in her collection Sonnets from the Portuguese. Written for her husband Robert Browning, these sonnets are not only some of the most formally precise poems in the English language, but among the most astonishingly beautiful love poems ever written.

With dramatic, petty, humorous, and profane poetry, Catullus defies tradition and depicts his exciting life, sarcastic friends and complicated lover in engrossing detail. Written during the era of the late Roman Republic, The Poems of Catullus provide a compelling and erotic view of Roman high society, embellished with the wit and drama of the renown Latin poet Gauis Valerius Catullus.

"There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here." In this hybrid text, Williams blends poetry and prose to explore the relation of the artist to the world and the life of humanity. Spring and All is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams.

Musing on the nature of love and aging, "The Wild Swans at Coole" finds Yeats asking what will happen when, after so many years of admiring the singular beauty of swans, he awakes "some day / To find they have flown away?" The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of elegies, lyrics, poetic dialogues, and political poems by W.B. Yeats.

In his third collection of poems, Yeats proves himself a poet of many voices, of common emotions and uncommon meaning, of veritable Ireland of the mind. The Wind Among the Reeds contains some of the poet's earliest masterpieces, including "The Song of Wandering Aengus," "The Song of the Old Mother," and "The Secret Rose."

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems with bold and competing motifs. One of William Blake's most celebrated works, it tackles purity and corruption as they relate to worldly living. Published in 1789 and 1794, each set offers a vibrant commentary on nature and morality.

"What makes the cornfield smile [...] Such are my themes." Part history, part agricultural guide, part celebration of human life, The Georgics of Virgil are a landmark work of literature from Rome's most vital poet. Following the tradition of didactic poetry, Virgil meditates on agriculture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping in order to illuminate humanity's search for order in the universe.

"And should I then presume? / And how should I begin?" Through the character of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot meditates on love, regret, and desire while alluding to some of history's greatest poets. Despite conjuring Shakespeare and Dante, however, Eliot's voice, which is Prufrock's, elevates the doubts, frustrations, and fears of modern man to a prominent place in world literature.

"April is the cruellest month." This observation, echoing Chaucer, opens the most important poem of the twentieth century. As often imitated as it has been parodied, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land introduced a new poetry to the world. Fragmented, polyphonic, multilingual, and mythical in scope, The Waste Land is a haunting vision of postwar Britain and a powerful excavation of self.

With his second collection, North of Boston, Robert Frost invites the reader to enter his world: "I'm going out to clean the pasture spring...You come too." Invoking the tradition of pastoral poetry, Frost sets himself apart as a writer familiar with the work required of rural life while composing a plainspoken music capable of "mak[ing] gaps even two can pass abreast."

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." These words, from "The Road Not Taken," form arguably the most famous single line in all American poetry. Taking as his theme the fine line between will and fate, Frost opens his third collection, Mountain Interval, with an undeniable masterpiece, setting the stage for the poems to come, for their attentive and plainspoken music.

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." For over a century, Robert Frost's poetry has struck readers for its simple, plainspoken language and quiet devotion to the soul of the natural world. Selected Poems is a generous sampling of some of the poet's early works, including "The Road Not Taken," "After-Apple Picking," and "Mowing."

When Tibbets questions the ghost that has started to haunt him, he learns all about the rules and realities of the realm after death. Featuring sixteen of Lewis Carroll's whimsical poems, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explore love, pests, and the supernatural. This collection of the critically acclaimed poetry of Lewis Carroll encourages imagination and wit as its whimsical and adventurous poems provide an accessible experience for all readers.

During the French and Indian War, the Acadians, a Francophone people living in northern Maine and the Canadian Maritime provinces, were forcefully expelled by British forces. Against this historical backdrop, Evangeline, a young Acadian newlywed, is forced to journey across the country in search of her missing husband. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Overcome with grief at the death of his love Beatrice, Dante composed this book of poems and prose commentaries. This autobiographical work showcases Dante's groundbreaking style while exploring the divine potential of earthly love. Recognized as exemplary for its use of the Tuscan vernacular, The New Life is a landmark work of world literature.

Featuring thirty-two poems, Love Poems and Others portrays the human need for connection with unfiltered insight and gripping honesty. Usually known for his impressive prose, D.H Lawrence proves that he is a master of language and an observant writer of the human condition with his collection of poetry, Love Poems and Others.

"Shortly we will plunge within the frigid gloom, / Farewell swift summer brightness; all too short..." Composed over a period of twenty years, these poems of love, lust, beauty, death, and suffering revolutionized modern poetry. Censored for decades for its descriptions of erotic and disturbing scenes, The Flowers of Evil remains one of Charles Baudelaire's most celebrated literary works.

A young poet struggling with the loss of his father falls in love with Maud, a beautiful, young aristocrat. As his courtship is thwarted by her disapproving older brother, he tries his best to take Maud's hand in marriage. Maud, and Other Poems is a collection of poetry from British Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

"Indifferent mystery, she was for him / Something still uncreated, incomplete." In "The Defeat of Youth," the poet muses on earthly and heavenly beauty, on the suddenness with which innocence turns to experience, leaving the world to "waver[] like the flame / Of a blown candle. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Aldous Huxley.

Azul... (1888) is a book of stories and poems by Rubén Darío. Written while the poet was living in Chile, Azul... has been recognized as a pioneering work of Hispanic Modernism that launched the career of a leading Latin American poet. Both experimental and traditional, Azul... blends Darío's concern over the sustainability of modern life with his abiding interest in the myths and magic of ancient cultures. Infused with classical symbolism, inspired by the myth and philosophy of Ancient Greece, Rubén Darío's Azul... bridges the gap between ancient and modern. Rather than focus on the differences between the two, he envisions the past as a living entity, allowing history and fantasy to coincide with the social realities of his time. In these poems and stories, fairies from the plays of Shakespeare appear alongside the working men and women of Latin America. Dreams coincide with a reality mired in poverty, labor, and passionless social climbing. Poets and port workers sing and die in a city of ghostly beauty. Azul... is less a book than it is an experience, and nearly a century and a half after its publication it remains one worth the taking. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rubén Darío's Azul... is a classic of Nicaraguan literature reimagined for modern readers.

Holiness, Temperance, Chasity, Justice, Friendship and Courtesy. These are the virtues that seven valiant knights, each on a quest through Faerieland, hope to achieve. Acting as both moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene is an exploration of love, integrity and chivalry written by one of the great craftsmen of Modern English verse, Edmund Spenser.