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Our fine poetry releases include collections of great African-American and English Romantic poems, and the brilliant works of Milton, Chaucer, and Dickinson.



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Selected PoemsSelected Poems 
by Emily Dickinson
Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. No comparable edition at this price. Index of first lines.


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Complete SonnetsComplete Sonnets 
by William Shakespeare
Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language of remarkable power, precision, and beauty. Glossary of archaic terms.

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101 Great American Poems101 Great American Poems 
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.


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The Rime of the Ancient MarinerThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes: "Frost at Midnight," "The Nightingale," "The Pains of Sleep," "To William Wordsworth," "Youth and Age," more. All reprinted from authoritative edition.


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Songs of Innocence and Songs of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and Songs of Experience 
by William Blake
Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections.


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"Easter 1916" and Other Poems"Easter 1916" and Other Poems
by William Butler Yeats
This compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many more.



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"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems
by Andrew Marvell
Rich selection of poems by great metaphysical poet includes title poem plus "The Definition of Love," "The Garden," "The Coronet," "On a Drop of Dew," "Upon Appleton House," many more. Note.



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100 Best-Loved Poems100 Best-Loved Poems
by Philip Smith
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.



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100 Favorite English and Irish Poems100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
by Clarence C. Strowbridge
Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.



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101 Great American Poems101 Great American Poems
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.



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AeneidAeneid
by Vergil
Monumental epic poem of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found a new city in the west — Rome.



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African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
by Joan R. Sherman
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes. Introduction.



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Best Poems of the Brontė SistersBest Poems of the Brontė Sisters
by Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontė, Candace Ward
Careful selection of 47 poems by talented literary siblings. Twenty-three poems by Emily, 14 poems by Anne, and 10 poems by Charlotte. Reproduced from standard editions. Publisher's Note.


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BhagavadgitaBhagavadgita
by Sir Edwin Arnold
Part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, the Bhagavadgita probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him. Translation by Sir Edwin Arnold. Explanatory footnotes.



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Blake’s Selected PoemsBlake’s Selected Poems
by William Blake
Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.



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The Book of PsalmsThe Book of Psalms
by King James Bible
Beloved book of the Old Testament contains 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis and songs of faith. Reprinted complete and unabridged from the King James Version (1611) of the Bible.



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A Boy’s Will and North of BostonA Boy’s Will and North of Boston
by Robert Frost
Two early volumes of poetry (1913–1914) contain many of the poet's finest, best-known works: "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "The Death of the Hired Man," many more. Reprinted complete and unabridged.


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The Cavalier Poets: An AnthologyThe Cavalier Poets: An Anthology
by Thomas Crofts
Over 120 works — characteristically charming, witty and graceful — by poets associated with the court of Charles I of England: Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace.


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The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other PoemsThe Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet, including the long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," selections from The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook," more.


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Chicago PoemsChicago Poems
by Carl Sandburg
Written in the poet's unique personal idiom, these early poems include "Chicago," "Fog," "Who Am I?" "Under the Harvest Moon," plus more on war, love, death, loneliness and the beauty of nature.



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Christmas Carols: Complete VersesChristmas Carols: Complete Verses
by Shane Weller
Complete lyrics for over 50 of the most popular, beloved carols: "Away in a Manger," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Joy to the World," "Silent Night," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," many more.


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Civil War PoetryCivil War Poetry
by Paul Negri
Over 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, as well as Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Markham, many others.



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Civil War Poetry and ProseCivil War Poetry and Prose
by Walt Whitman
Poems, letters and prose from the war years. "O Captain! My Captain!," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," many other letters and prose works.



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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An AnthologyThe Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
by Faubion Bowers
Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku by greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki, many more. Translated by top-flight scholars. Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.



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