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Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385) is an epic poem written by English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in Middle English, Troilus and Criseyde is the story of two lovers forced apart by the Greek siege of Troy. Often considered Chaucer¿s finest work for its structural consistency and completeness, the poem adapts Homer¿s Iliad and other ancient sources which expand on its tradition to tell a Christian moral tale about the importance of faith and the sacred nature of human love.After mocking the god of love, Troilus¿a Trojan warrior and the youngest son of Priam¿is struck with desire for the beautiful Criseyde, the daughter of a prophet named Calchas. With her uncle Pandarus¿ help, the two begin to exchange letters before consummating their love in secret. Meanwhile, Calchas¿who has predicted the fall of Troy and abandoned the city to join the Greeks¿is negotiating with both sides in order to facilitate the release of Antenor in exchange for his daughter, Criseyde. Although Troilus and Hector object to the plan, Criseyde is sent to the Greek camp. Despite promising to return to Troy and to remain faithful to Troilus, she secretly doubts herself, and is soon courted by the Greek hero Diomede. Troilus and Criseyde, a masterpiece of medieval literature, is a tragic story of desire, will, and the divine that continues to move readers centuries after it was written.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Geoffrey Chaucer¿s Troilus and Criseyde is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Idylls of the King (1859-1885) is a cycle of narrative poems by British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written while Tennyson was serving as Poet Laureate, Idylls of the King reworks the medieval Arthurian legend in blank verse and with an elegiac tone. Based on Sir Thomas Malory¿s Le Morte d¿Arthur and the early British Mabinogion manuscripts, Tennyson¿s work connects an ancient tradition to the reign and ideals of Queen Victoria.¿The Coming of Arthur¿ traces Arthur¿s rise to power, narrating his role in the siege of Cameliard and the liberation of Leodogran¿s kingdom. Following their victory, Arthur marries Guinevere, Leodogran¿s daughter, who is brought to Camelot by the loyal Sir Lancelot, one of Arthur¿s finest knights. In ¿Gareth and Lynette,¿ the young Gareth begins as a worker in Camelot¿s kitchens before ascending to the role of knight and being sent on a quest to Castle Perilous. In ¿Enid,¿ Sir Geraint, disturbed by a rumored liaison between Lancelot and Guinevere, grows suspicious of his wife Enid and decides to leave Camelot. Unable to quell his distrust and jealousy, Geraint brings Enid on a dangerous quest in order to test her faith. Other sections of the sequence follow the quest for the Holy Grail, Guinevere¿s escape from Camelot, and Mordred¿s betrayal of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Idylls of the King illuminates an ancient legend for modern audiences, presenting stories of honor, romance, and adventure in engaging, accessible verse.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson¿s Idylls of the King is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

This collection of Jonathan Swift¿s poetry is separated in three parts, according to their subject matter. The first section are poems addressed to a woman named Stella. Based off a real-life close friend of Swift¿s, Esther Johnson, the portion of poetry addressed to Stella contain beautiful tributes to this woman, with simple titles such as Stelläs Birthday March 13, 1727. Though these poems display a tender amount of intimacy shared between the two, Esther Johnson and Jonathan¿s relationship is shrouded in mystery, leaving readers and historians to debate if they were just friends or something more romantic. The next section of The Poems of Jonathan Swift are dedicated to a woman called Vanessa, who was based off of one of Swift¿s lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh. Their correspondence and his poems about her suggested a more romantic relationship than the one he shared with Stella. With elegant word choice and masterful form, both women and their relationships with Swift are well documented in this book of poems. The final part of The Poems of Jonathan Swift is dedicated to the love of Swift¿s career¿the satirization of politics. All of Swift¿s poems are written in iambic tetrameter and end rhyme, creating a fun and quick reading experience. This is a large collection of poetry covers a wide variety of topics with the humor and satire that Jonathan Swift was famous for. With these attributes, readers are welcome to enjoy Jonathan Swift¿s mysterious and passionate relationships as well as his humorous and intelligent criticism of politics. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and with an eye-catching cover design, this edition of The Poems of Jonathan Swift is perfect for a contemporary audience. With the decadent style of classic poetry combined with topics that are both entertaining and relatable, along with this edition¿s new features, this classic collection is restored for modern readers.

The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is a poem by Lewis Carroll. Filled with many of the portmanteau words developed for his poem ¿Jabberwocky,¿ The Hunting of the Snark is a delightfully strange tale of mystery and adventure. Often read as an allegory for everything from tuberculosis to the endless quest for happiness itself, The Hunting of the Snark, much like the Snark itself, refuses all description. ¿¿Just the place for a Snark!¿ the Bellman cried, / As he landed his crew with care; / Supporting each man on the top of the tide / By a finger entwined in his hair.¿ Driven more by rhyme than reason, the adventure opens in medias res, introducing its varied crew of men and beasts of questionable use: a Boots, a Barrister, a Broker, a maker of Bonnets and Hoods, a Billiard-maker, a Banker, and, of course, a Beaver. Sailors all, they sail into the unknown. The Snark they search for may not be a Snark, could be a Boojum, and may very well be deadly. Intrepid and wisely foolish, they set out to comb the island for the Snark, armed with tricks and bribes, ¿smiles and soap,¿ and all the other instruments of hope. Playful and strange, the Snark eludes us all. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Lewis Carroll¿s The Hunting of the Snark is a classic work of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

¿The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age.¿ ¿Michel de MontaigneThe Lover¿s Assistant; or, New Art of Love (1760) is an updated translation of Ovid¿s Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD) by English satirist Henry Fielding. Divided into three books, Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love was immensely popular¿if a little controversial¿in its time, and has survived numerous charges of indecency over the centuries. For the modern reader, it should prove a surprisingly relatable work on intimacy from an author of the ancient world. Fielding¿s translation, of the first book alone, remains true to Ovid¿s Latin while updating its examples and historical context for the contemporary English reader.At times serious, at others humorous, The Lover¿s Assistant; or, New Art of Love uses a mix of down-to-earth examples and relatable references to mythology in order to offer salient advice for the reader longing for love. Maintaining much of Ovid¿s content, Fielding replaces the context of the poem¿ancient Rome¿with that of his contemporary England. Topics include etiquette, remembering birthdays, avoiding unhealthy jealousy, being open to older and younger lovers, and nurturing honesty. With his wry wit and clear-eyed sense of English aristocratic life, Fielding¿who is seen as a pioneer of English literature for his work, including the comic novel Tom Jones (1749)¿provides a loyal reinterpretation of Ovid¿s classic study of romance between men and women. The Lover¿s Assistant; or, New Art of Love, although frequently tongue-in-cheek, is an earnest and effective attempt to enlighten and encourage its readers to partake¿responsibly¿in one of life¿s greatest pleasures.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Ovid¿s The Lover¿s Assistant; or, New Art of Love is a classic work of Roman literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Edgar Allan Poe Collection (2020) compiles several iconic works of short fiction and poetry by an icon of American literature. Recognized as a foundational figure of nineteenth century fiction, Poe has inspired generations of readers and writers with his craftsmanship and taste for tragedy and terror. His brief but meteoric career shaped the trajectory of American literature forever, forming a legacy without which science fiction, horror, and detective writing would surely be shells of themselves. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," a man receives a distressing letter from an old friend requesting his presence at his family estate. There, Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline are found suffering from an unknown illness, and the narrator struggles to comfort them as signs of paranormal activity lead him to believe that the house itself is a living entity. "The Masque of the Red Death" is a timely work of Gothic fiction set in the abbey of a powerful prince. As the world outside suffers from a deadly plague, the prince decides to hold a masquerade for his wealthy friends and fellow nobles, unwittingly bringing death to his own fortunate doorstep. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," a French detective summons the powers of analytical reasoning to investigate the deaths of two young women. Included in this collection are some of Poe''s most iconic poems, including "A Dream Within a Dream," "The Raven," and "Ulalume," all of which remain indelible classics of Romantic verse, masterpieces of mystery, beauty, and slow-burning fear. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Edgar Allan Poe Collection is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Burning Wheel (1916) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Published when the poet was only twenty-two, The Burning Wheel captures the mind of an artist at its earliest fertile stage, enthralled with a world either blooming with change or wilting with all-out war. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words.¿The Burning Wheel¿ opens the collection with a kaleidoscopic vision of life and creation, illuminating the poet¿s debt to the French Symbolists. ¿Weary of its own turning,¿ the burning wheel slows for a moment¿s rest. This wheel, both machine and pure, wild flame, is the poet compelled to create, the mind that ¿[w]akes from the sleep of its quiet brightness / And burns with a darkening passion and pain.¿ In ¿Quotidian Vision,¿ Huxley returns to earth to remark: ¿There is a sadness in the street / And sullenly the folk I meet / Droop their heads as they walk along.¿ In these simple, rhyming couplets, the poet channels the verse and vision of William Blake to see, despite the ¿mist of cold and muffling grey,¿ a ¿dead world move for him once more / With beauty for its living core.¿ The Burning Wheel is a compelling collection from an artist whose poetry is no less remarkable for having gone mostly unnoticed.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley¿s The Burning Wheel is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

While traveling to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket and receive blessings, a group of colorful strangers ranging in social class compete to tell the best story leading to laughter, offense, fights and comradery. Written by the Father of English literature, > is Geoffrey Chaucer¿s exploration of love, religion, and class.

The Escapades builds on the Greek myth of a woman transformed into a horse by the obscure machinations of the Fates to tell the story of a human soul, both man and woman, that wanders among animals and children, haunted by the loss of its name, body, and voice. Agniau''s eminently humane surrealism articulates questions of profound importance: the place of silence and speech, absence and love, in a troubled world.

Jazra Khaleed''s poetry is electrifying, an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization. Born in Chechnya in 1979, Khaleed is a poet who seems very Greek and not Greek at all; his language is sharp, refined, and controlled, with elegant rhythms and contemporary street speech that often has an undertow of a sophisticated language with moments of Byzantine and New Testament Greek. In his poetry there is a power, erudition, and control that Greek readers have trouble equating with a man named Jazra. The poems are always political, vehement, written at times from a very personal perspective, and at others from that of an objective outsider. It is a poetry that tears the untroubled reader back to a reality that may well be dangerous.

Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi (1921) is a collection of poems by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognizing as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national poetries. Alongside a brilliant introduction, in which he addresses the collective power of world literature, he provides a selection of his best poems from a quarter century of work.¿The time is coming when, as with international politics where the understanding of the East with the West is already an unmistakable fact, the poetries of these two different worlds will approach of one another and exchange their cordial greetings.¿ A firm believer in plainspoken language and a practitioner of free verse, Noguchi envisioned his art as a humble contribution to the union of East and West. In his early poems written in California, he reflects on loneliness and the natural world while reveling in the extended lines and celebratory phrases made popular by Whitman. In his third collection, From the Eastern Sea (1903) he settles into a more reserved prosody, characterized by stillness and vibrant imagery. Included in this collection are his prose poems and a series of Japanese Hokkus, whose minimalism and spiritual clarity continue to captivate readers and poets of all languages and nations. ¿Is there anything new under the sun? / Certainly there is. / See how a bird flies, how flowers smile!¿ These poems not only teach us to look, but to see the world anew.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Yone Noguchi¿s Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi is a classic of Japanese American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Twenty (1918) is a poetry collection by Stella Benson. Largely recognized for her work as an activist in the women¿s suffrage movement and for her popular novels, Benson was also an accomplished poet. Twenty, her debut volume, is a collection indebted to symbolism in which Benson reflects on her experiences as a young woman in a rapidly changing world. In ¿The Secret Day,¿ Benson muses on the impossibility of peace in a time that refuses to slow: ¿My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, / And now to-morrow comes and beats upon the door / [¿] / So I have built To-day, more precious than a dream; / And I have painted peace upon the sky above.¿ Responding to the horrors of a decade torn by war, Benson does what she can to maintain her own personal calm, to build a safe space apart from the world. In ¿Redneck¿s Song,¿ she laments the years of her life spent obeying ¿the laws of men / Who worshipped law,¿ declaring instead that ¿Those laws are dust / To-day¿¿ In these poems shaped by her experience as an activist and pioneering feminist, the personal is inseparable from the political. Benson¿s identity, her present and her future, depend on this revolutionary thrust¿no longer will she ¿shut [her] eyes¿ and ¿hold [her] tongue.¿ It may be ¿their path,¿ but she will make her own ¿groove,¿ her own way through life. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Stella Benson¿s Twenty is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

Ålandsøyene, upolitiske dikt er den sjette reisediktboka til Eggen, og den tredje fra et nordisk land. Åland har markert seg med sterk selvstendighetstrang, både politisk og kulturelt. Samlingen kretser rundt to særegenheter ved øygruppa: det indre selvstyret og statusen som demilitarisert. I tillegg har boka et geografisk tilsnitt. Mange små dikt er satt sammen til lengre sekvenser, hver avdeling er et lite øyrike. Åland har ingen fjell og dermed få, om noen, utsiktspunkter. Du ser sjelden særlig langt. Du ser deler av noe. Åland er et land av miniatyrer, med det store havet rundt.]]>

What the Earth Seemed to Say is a powerful collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from one of America's most daring and courageous poets. First UK publication in paperback only of her hardback New & Selected Poems from Norton in the US.

A modern mystical journey through love - a many-headed snake twisting through devotion, sacrifice and the dream of returning home.

I Sugar The Bones explores the crossing of borders between countries, people, languages, and the veil between life and death. Through the porosity of the US/Mexico border or through toxic relationships, through geopolitical violence or Freudian slippages, through ghostly glitches, translingualism and radio signal interferences, or the role of rivers across history, Adcock invests in the liminal spaces and layering of different realities. Through deceptively simple language, humour and a multi-layered lens through unexpected transpositions, the poet embraces the dubbing actors who once voiced the characters of The Simpsons for Latin America, along with a man imagined as a kitchen cabinet. Adcock interrogates the different stories surrounding borders, where things are a lot more interconnected than we tend to assume.

"'So how do you discern a shape for / what is often called god' asks the poet in a book that is as metaphysical as it is very much of this moment, of this, our crisis. How so? Because every crisis is first of all metaphysical. Kazim Ali speaks in the same breath of the injustice of our world and of 'the actual syllables Orpheus sang/ to the dead to be allowed into hell.' This is a metaphysics of a scream. It speaks against world that wrongs us, yes-but also of 'what language cannot / hold onto,' of 'ecstatic sound aiming to reach from the muck of the earth.' What is this speech like? It takes many forms: lyrical, cinematic, choral. The Voice of Sheila Chandra is a sequence of sequences, a book where three long poems come together to make a statement that is far larger than the sum of its parts. It is a brilliant book." -Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa

In this extraordinary, passionate debut poetry collection, Jimin Seo takes up a material we think we recognize - language - and transforms it through permutation, history, and translation into a lyrical and alien terrain. Seo takes up both Korean and English, drawing them across multiple experiences of relation - none of them equivalence. Translation and re-translation triangulate to form the ghostly third other which defines every relationship of two. Fragmentation, riff, homophony, and analogy sprawl like cuttings from a plant, yielding poems that grow in defiant new directions. This is a book calling to a mother, a teacher, lovers, and ultimately a self whose elements materialise through language, even as the speaker laments what language cannot be or hold. For Fans of: Kim Hyesoon, Richard Howard, Jay Gao

An impressive, moving, and assured debut collection of poems about the richness of nature, human emotion, and the human condition in general. Innovative and fresh, at times playful at times serious always with a keen eye for the tell-tale detail. Rooted in personal experience, the reader is exposed to and invited to share in the poet's intimate emotional journey, joy, elation, wonder and sometimes fragile memories as well as his iconoclastic take on common Western myths.Beginning with a welcoming message to the reader in the opening poem 'Dear Reader' that any personal interpretation is as valid as the author's to the challenge of the last poem of the collection 'My Ode to Joy' to find the personal 'addition to the sum of creation,' this collection is sure to delight the reader.

Weaving familial and queer traditions and archives, and stretching across generational perspectives, Amann Hyder's Self-Portrait With Family is an autobiographical collection about coming out to family and coming out into a gay community defined by whiteness.

Blackbird Singing at Dusk is a bold exploration of place within nature through themes of rural working-class identity and the female body, alongside explorations of loss and the repetitive nature of time.

Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA) Kim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim mixes folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, Rimbaud, Agnès Varda, Francis Bacon's portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones and more.