Edgar Allan Poe's poetry is known for its dark and mysterious themes, as well as its use of language and imagery to create a sense of horror and suspe...
"Spoon River Anthology" is a collection of free verse epitaphs written by Edgar Lee Masters, published in 1915. The book is a collection of short, fre...
In English literature, Don Juan (1819–1824), by Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays Don Juan not as a womaniser, but as a man easily s...
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV...
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868,...
This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major And...
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The L...
This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgarset three of the...
It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: B...
A careful study of Endymion made some ten years ago led to the conclusion that there was more of allegorical significance in the poem than had hithert...
These are a collection of sixteen satiric monologues where Juvenal does his best to poke his finger in the eye of the Roman society of his day for not...
In this anthology, Agnes Blake Poor introduces to the American public a collection of Latin American poets in translation. The poems are organized by...
The imagist school was founded by Ezra Pound but later defined by Lowell. Simple speech is favoured over lyricism, freedom of rhythm over the metrical...
As Psyche - the youngest daughter of a petty Cretan king - grows into the full flower of womanhood, she becomes worshiped by the common people as the...
This is a volume of poetry by Ronald Ross. It was composed in India during Ross' intensive research of malaria. Ross was first to discover how mosquit...
The Book of American Negro Poetry, curated by James Weldon Johnson, is a landmark anthology that gathers some of the most influential African-American...
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,” both by...
In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a volume of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1903 by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer P...
Currer Bell is Charlotte, Ellis Bell is Emily, and Acton Bell is Anne. Tragically, the free kindle volume doesn’t list who wrote each individual poem,...
A Book of Strife, in the form of the Diary of an Old Soul. I doubt MacDonald ever expected more than his family to read this work, much less review it...
Erec and Enide tells the story of the marriage of the titular characters, as well as the journey they go on to restore Erec's reputation as a knight a...
