Harry Kemp 
Chanteys And Ballads, Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads And Other Ballads And Poems 

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This …

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet …

Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings togetherthe experiences of those intervening years in a stunning newcollection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay”s work, we …

”I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.” Fired by his abiding love of the E …

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment …

Late studies in the Psychology of Sex have led to some interesting speculations with regard to the poet Shelley; and it is with pleasure that I write a few lines by way of introduction to the …

Jalaloddin Rumi”s Masnavi-ye Ma”navi, or ”Spiritual Couplets”, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his …

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize Like Neil Rollinson’s earlier books, Talking Dead is a refreshment of the senses: lifting the lid on the human condition in a heartfelt celebration of the …

Anthony Copley”s A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser”s The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A …