Poetry

“A collection of surpassing splendor and resonance.” (Booklist )

A new collection of poems from Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney.

“Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing.” —Alicia Ostriker, The Nation

Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry.

Here are collected the most charming tales of the Poor One of Assisi -- his sermon to the birds, the wolf of Gubbio . . .

This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work.

Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language.

Quite of the best Milton, which is equivalent to saying that they are of the best of one kind of poetry.

Edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard.

Provides a fresh interpretation of the poetry of the Old Testament and a lucid, original account of how biblical poetry works.