Poetry category: 46548 books

One of the most beloved poets of the Romantic Age of English literature, John Keats created a body of works in his short life that is characterised by sensual imagery and unparalleled beauty. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This...

Walt Whitman, whose work charted the transition between transcendental and realist verse, is regarded as one of the most influential poets in the American canon and is often celebrated as the father of free verse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with...

David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb...

This file includes: "Green Helmet and Other Poems" (first published in 1911) and In the Seven Woods: being poems chiefly of the Irish heroic age" (first published in 1903). The active table of contents has links to each poem. The verse plays "The Green Helmet, a Heroic Farce" and "On Baile's Strand"...

Looking out upon an external world, which seemingly appears transformed by the light from a gothic window, is ... where J J Ginty likes to sit and consider his poetic observations - exploring the deeper psyche within his gothic outlook. Viewing motifs from the extraordinary and other-worldly, to...

2006 Eppie Winner for Poetry "As a collection, Pagan poetry can hardly get better than this. The contents are sensuous, moving, endearing, stark and intoxicating by turns: occasionally within the same poem!" --Professor Ronald Hutton, Bristol University, author of The Triumph of the...

Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry This special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly...

***The e-book version of this love poetry book can be downloaded for FREE at www.eppmarsh.com/store Behold the beautiful and most breathtaking timeless romance poetry from one man to one woman. In this collection of fifty love poems, author and poet Epp Marsh III writes as fictional character...

This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the “tremendous poetic potential” concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition,...

DYSTOPIA! DYSPHORIA! DISSATISFACTION! DISSIPATION! EXTINCTION! J J Ginty's 'poetic journal' is a delicious insight. Gothic Twilight III is an organic outgrowth of Gothic Twilight II (Dark Poetry, Volume 4). Presenting the thought-provoking (sometimes disturbing), poetic continuance...

Featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac “Ellen Bass’s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.”-The New York Times “Bass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences of sex, work, aging, and war. Those who turn to poetry to become...

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 series we look at special days of celebration through the eyes and minds of...

After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first, then screaming. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body...

BEHOLD! … AS HE PARADES THE MOTLEY INCARNATIONS THAT DWELL WITHIN THE TWILIGHT OF HIS HAUNTED GOTHIC SOUL!  Gothic Twilight II is the fourth collection in J J Ginty's Dark Poetry series. Pursuing on from the spectral dominions of Gothic Twilight (Dark Poetry, Volume 2). Here the author...