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Archibald Lampman was born on November 17th, 1861 at Morpeth, Ontario in Canada. Perhaps the finest Canadian poet of his time, he is classed as a Confederation Poet. A lover of camping, it inspired much of his verse and helped him to become known as 'The Canadian Keats'. Most of his poems are about the countryside and the natural world. He wrote in excess of 300 poems and all reveal and revel in his observations of life and landscape. His health deteriorated, due in part to the death of his second son and his earlier problems caused by rheumatic fever.

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes and Problems, Ignatius His Conclave, The Sermons, Essays and Devotions, and an index of first lines.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism — an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 'Christabel,' and 'Kubla Khan,' the most uncanny, surreal, and startling of the great English poets.

This volume collects the most essential poems of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and demonstrates the enduring significance of his verse. An Everyman's Library Pocket Poet. To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse.

This volume collects the most essential of the immortal poems and songs of Scotland's beloved national bard. An Everyman's Library Pocket Poet. With the publication of his first book of poems in 1786, Robert Burns—the twenty-seven-year-old son of a farmer—became a national celebrity, hailed as the "Ploughman Poet." When he died ten years later, ten thousand people came to pay their respects at his funeral, and in the two centuries since then he has inspired a cultlike following among Scots and poetry lovers around the world.

A reissue of Rimbaud's highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin Lustig. New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat—a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths." Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether.

This collection includes the poetry books: Ballads of Lost Haven — Behind the Arras — Later Poems — More Songs from Vagabondia — Sappho — Songs from Vagabondia. According to Wikipedia. "Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada Carman is classed as one of the Confederation Poets, a group which also included Charles G.D. Roberts (his cousin) — Archibald Lampman — Duncan Campbell Scott.

Of all the lasting innovations that William Wordsworth (1770–1850) brought to our literature, it is his discovery of nature and his fresh vision of human lives in the context of nature that have most influenced our cultural climate. Here, collected in this volume, are Wordsworth’s finest works, some of the most beautiful poems ever written: from the famous lyrical ballads, including “The Tables Turned” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” to the sonnets and narrative poems, to excerpts from his magnum opus, The Preludes.

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Short Stories/Collection. A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Sophia Bush featuring selections from the late poet's work, in her own voice, plus a tapestry of complementary voices reflecting on Oliver's legacy. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver is a first-of-its-kind audio commemoration of one of the greatest poets in modern history.

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2 a.m. prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls.