Poetry

by Walt Whitman

Experience the beauty and simplicity of Walt Whitman's poetic masterpiece, Leaves of Grass. This collection of verses celebrates the interconnectedness of all living beings, the wonders of nature, and the boundless potential of the human spirit.

by Emily Dickinson

While Emily Dickinson's poetry was doomed to obscurity due to her striking uniqueness during her lifetime, her daring prose experiments, tragic vision, and the breadth of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since earned her reputation as a poet of the highest calibre. The reader can view the entire body of work by this extraordinary creative genius, as well as the complexity of her personality, the range of her moods, and the evolution of her style, in this book, which includes the chosen form of each of the 1,775 poems she composed. 

by Edgar Allan Poe

This selection of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful ‘The Bells’, the tragic ode ‘Annabel Lee’ and his famous gothic tour de force, ‘The Raven’. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of the macabre and bizarre, while others have at their heart a profound sense of love, beauty and loss. All are linguistic masterpieces that demonstrate Poe’s gift for marrying rhythm, form and meaning.

An American writer of primarily prose and literary criticism, Edgar Allen Poe never ceased writing poetry throughout his turbulent life and is today regarded as a central figure of American literary romanticism. He died in 1849. 

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

‘Instead of the cross, the Albatross

About my neck was hung’

When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner shoots the bird, arousing the wrath of spirits who pursue the ship. Haunted by Death, the crew begin to perish one by one, until only the cursed mariner remains to confront his guilt. As penance for his actions he is condemned to wander the earth, telling his tale to those he meets as a warning.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s longest major poem and marks the beginning of the romantic movement in British literature. This edition also includes many of Coleridge’s other works, including Kubla Khan, Christabel and a selection of the ‘conversation’ poems.