Poetry

The Little Mother Goose

The Mesnevi

Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

The Mesnevi presented here is a sprawling collection of anecdotes that trace the life and lineage of Jalāl…

Ballads and Other Poems Fourth Edition, Revised

George Lansing Raymond

Духовные оды

Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin

Это сборник духовных оды, написанных Гавриилом Романовичем Державиным в середине XVIII века.

Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete, Volume I gathers the poetical and prose output of John Greenleaf…

Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field in Six Cantos

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion is a narrative poem that treats the historic Battle of Flodden, a 1513 clash…

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2

William Lisle Bowles

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2, is a scholarly collection that opens with a sweeping…

Romano Lavo-Lil: Word Book of the Romany; Or, English Gypsy Language With Specimens of Gypsy Poetry, and an Account of Certain Gypsyries or Places Inhabited by Them, and of Various Things Relating to Gypsy Life in England

George Borrow

The work is a nineteenth‑century linguistic compendium by George Borrow that gathers the English Gypsy…

Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

This volume presents three of the most celebrated alliterative poems of the fourteenth‑century West‑Midland…

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II

Various

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

The Kipling Reader gathers a selection of short stories, poems and sketches by Rudyard Kip‑Kipling, and the…

Poems & Ballads (First Series)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The volume is Swinburne’s first collection of poems and ballads, a self‑conscious survey of his early lyrical…

A Boy's Will

Robert Frost

A Boy’s Will is a lyrical meditation that unfolds as a series of loosely linked poems and prose fragments…

Poems

Matthew Arnold

The Troubadours

H. J. Chaytor

The work is a scholarly overview of the poetry of the medieval troubadours, written by H. J.

The Bucolics and Eclogues

Virgil

The Bucolics and Eclogues presents Virgil’s pastoral poetry in a series of lyrical dialogues between…

The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition

W. Y. Sellar

The Roman Poets of the Republic, second edition, is a scholarly survey of Latin verse from the earliest Roman…

The Old Bush Songs

The volume is a straightforward anthology of Australian bush songs, assembled with the explicit aim of…

The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

The volume presents a sweeping anthology of nursery rhymes, beginning with a scholarly preface that traces…

The Botanic Garden, a Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

Erasmus Darwin

The work is a poetic‑philosophical treatise by Erasmus Darwin that blends natural‑history observation with…

Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems

Ben Jonson

The work is a miscellany that gathers Ben Jonson’s reflections on human nature, moral counsel, and a series…

A Treasury of Canadian Verse, with Brief Biographical Notes

The volume is a curated anthology of English‑Canadian poetry assembled at the turn of the twentieth century.

Poems

G. K. Chesterton

The volume is a sprawling collection of poems by G. K. Chesterton, presented as a single, uninterrupted…

Historical Manual of English Prosody

George Saintsbury

George Saint‑Saintsbury’s Historical Manual of English Prosody is a compact yet scholarly guide that grew out…