From Paris to Tlon: Surrealism as World Literature
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Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact...
Memorial
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Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since - but ancient...
The Love Book: Classic and Contemporary Poems, Letters and Prose on the Wonderful (but Troublesome) Theme of Love
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This is an exquisite collection of the very best writing on love. The Love Book presents a new...
The Old English Poems of Cynewulf
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The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth...
The Oxford Book of Essays
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The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom,...
Adonis: Selected Poems
Adonis and Khaled Mattawa
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Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His...
All the Odes
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Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that...
Rapture
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Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem, and a moving act of personal...
Sur's Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition
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Surdas has been regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of...
That Swing: Poems, 2008-2016
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In this, his ninth book of poetry, lyric master X. J. Kennedy regales his readers with engaging...