Poetry

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 12

John Dryden

The volume gathers John Dryden’s early poetic forays, beginning with a sprawling, pseudo‑mythic narrative…

Adonais

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s elegiac tribute to the poet John Keats, presented here as the first Shelley…

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems

F. W. Moorman

This volume is an anthology of poems written wholly in “broad Yorkshire,” spanning from the late seventteenth…

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

Walter Scott

The work is a three‑volume collection of historical and romantic ballads gathered from the Southern Counties…

Fairies and Fusiliers

Robert Graves

Robert Graves’s Fairies and Fusiliers is a sprawling anthology that blends war poetry with mythic reverie.

Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence

Charles Alfred Downer

This work is a scholarly dissertation by Charles Alfred Downer, submitted for his Ph.D.

The Kobzar of the Ukraine Being select poems of Taras Shevchenko done into English verse with biographical fragments by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Taras Shevchenko

The volume presents a selection of Taras Shevchenko’s 19th‑century Ukrainian poems rendered into English…

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1

Emma Lazarus

The volume gathers the early and mature verses of Emma Lazarus, presented in the order in which they first…

Jerusalem Delivered

Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered is an Italian epic poem that dramatizes the First Crusade, focusing on…

Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

This volume gathers the poems and songs John Greenleaf Whittaker assembled to protest slavery and champion…

The Christian Year

John Keble

John Keble’s The Christian Year is a devotional poetry collection that follows the liturgical calendar,…

Ballads of a Bohemian

Robert W. Service

Ballads of a Bohemian is a sprawling, verse‑driven chronicle of a struggling artist’s life in pre‑war Paris.

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of short, rhymed poems that speak directly to a child’s…

Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry

Wilhelm Alfred Braun

Wilhelm Alfred Braun’s essay is a scholarly study that treats Weltschmerz, the poetic feeling of world‑pain,…

It can be done: Poems of inspiration

This volume gathers a wide range of inspirational poems, assembled to lift spirits and reinforce the belief…

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

Harold Edgeworth Butler

Harold Edgeworth Butler’s Post‑Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal is a scholarly survey of Latin verse…

The Catholic World, Vol. 25, April 1877 to September 1877

Various

Turkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred Traditions

This volume presents a broad survey of Ottoman literary production, gathered from a range of genres that…

George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)

George Crabbe

This volume presents the first of three collected editions of George Crabbe’s poetry, arranged…

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

active 14th century; Omar Khayyam Firdawsi; Ḥāfiẓ

This volume gathers the great Persian works that have shaped the literary imagination of the West: the epic…

Minor Poems of Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton

This volume gathers the lesser‑known poems of Michael Drayton, an early‑modern English poet whose career…

Jack the Giant Killer

Percival Leigh

Percival Leigh’s Jack the Giant Killer is a whimsical verse collection that blends fairy‑tale adventure with…

A Satire Anthology

This volume gathers a broad sweep of satirical verse and prose, beginning with a brief introductory essay…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

Gerard Manley Hopkins

This volume gathers the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, presented as they first appeared in manuscript form…