English poetry books

The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4

Burton Egbert Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson’s The Home Book of Verse, Volume 4 is a sprawling anthology that gathers together…

A Century of Parody and Imitation

The volume presents a sweeping anthology of English poetic parody and imitation, assembled with meticulous…

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke

The volume gathers the poems of Rupert Brooke, an English poet whose brief career spanned the early twentieth…

The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

This volume is a curated anthology of English‑language humorous verse, spanning from medieval poets such as…

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

Gayley, Charles Mills; Bulfinch, Thomas

The work is a scholarly guide that links the great myths of antiquity to their treatment in English poetry…

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

James Baldwin

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer is a scholarly anthology compiled by James Baldwin,…

Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum, and other poems

Matthew Arnold

This volume gathers Matthew Arnold’s narrative poem Sohrab and Rustam together with a selection of his other…

The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes

The Golden Treasury presents itself as a carefully curated anthology of English lyrical poetry and song,…

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

The volume gathers selections from Robert Browning’s poetry and drama, opening with an extensive biographical…

The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

This volume presents the complete poetic output of Oliver Goldsmith, assembled as an expanded and annotated…

Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

Edward Young

The work is a scholarly meditation on the evolution of English poetry from the era of George Herbert through…

In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems

John McCrae

Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics

C. S. Lewis

Spirits in Bondage is C. S. Lewis’s first published collection, issued in 1919 under the pseudonym Clive…

English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Raymond MacDonald Alden

This work is a scholarly manual for the systematic study of English verse, assembled from a wide range of…

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete

The work is a scholarly anthology that begins with a concise essay tracing the origins and development of…

The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich 4th edition

Richard Corbet

The fourth edition gathers the verse of Richard Corbet, the 17th‑century bishop of Oxford and later Norwich,…

Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"

Various

Browning's Shorter Poems

Robert Browning

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

William Lisle Bowles

The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4

Charles Lamb

Paradise Regained

John Milton

The Hound of Heaven

Francis Thompson

Poems of Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

Thomas Hardy