Poetry category: 46548 books

Credited with introducing the sonnet into English poetry, the lyrical poet Sir Thomas Wyatt was responsible for pioneering innovations in verse literature. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works...

One of the most important poets of the eighteenth century, William Cowper’s nature poetry explored everyday life and scenes of the English countryside, establishing him as a forerunner of Romantic poetry. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting....

'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets we bring you a guide...

Divine Mischief is the first anthology collection of poetry and short stories by Montreal-born writer R.A.Lucas. Arranged in chronological order, it begins with a small selection of previously unpublished poems dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s. These are followed by a few poems from his first...

Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too....

The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In...

The poetry of Walter Savage Landor spans the final years of the Enlightenment to the greatest achievements of the Victorian Empire. Landor is now regarded as a ‘poet’s poet’, whose sensitive and beautiful poetry won the admiration of Browning, Yeats, Ezra Pound and Robert Frost. His celebrated...

This is the first poetry anthology from the talented Alexander Kavalier. After having many poems published in magazines and poetry competition anthologies, he has finally taken centre stage and produced this book of entirely his own work. Kavalier’s works have been inspired by many well-known poets,...

This is the first poetry anthology from the talented Alexander Kavalier. After having many poems published in magazines and poetry competition anthologies, he has finally taken centre stage and produced this book of entirely his own work. Kavalier’s works have been inspired by many well-known poets,...

"Poetry Perfect" features the poem "Life Is Like A Bullet Train" and other poems for the reader's ebook library and enjoyment. Other ebook publications by Randolph Knight and T. Sky Handring include: "Poetry From The Heart", "Poetry Reveals", "T. Sky Handring...

From Scribbles to Poetry, is all about descriptive poetry. The Author likes to write pictures as this is what this type of writing is called. At open mic readings people come to him and tell him that while he was reading they were seeing pictures of the poem in their minds. This is what he really...

Although his fame has long been eclipsed by his friends Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Lake Poet Robert Southey held the position of Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843, publishing a large body of epic poems, odes, ballads and many other forms of literature. And now, for the first...

Poetry is the translator of my inner self and my spiritual self. Poetry is the language I use to express what I dont quite understand. Poetry is indeed a gift. This gift gives me peace. Peace is whats left after releasing, in poetry, my aches, my pain, and my sorrows. And poetry even extends...