W. B. Yeats 
Rosa Alchemica [PDF ebook] 

Contemporary Caribbean Women”s Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are c …

Climate change, the cost-of-living crisis; corporate greed, insomnia and mortality – yes, they all feature here, delicately interwoven with joyful poems celebrating love, family, food, basking lizard …

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or pe …

First published in 1963, this work puts into clear and rhythmical English one hundred stories and apologues of the Masnavi of Rumi. Composed over a period of many years during the thirteenth century, …

The thing about poetry is, that She has but the simplest of rules.She does not have to rhyme, Nor be written in clear lines.She doesn’t even need true letters, All she has to do, is move the spirit, …

Perhaps it had to rain, For the clouds to clear Perhaps I had to fall, To conquer my fear Perhaps the wind had to blow, For the trees to sway Perhaps my heart had to break, For my feet to stand and p …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling students and research …

This book analyzes the Faerie Queene”s setting, examining Spenser”s quest structures and his ideas about epic, romance, and history. Critics almost invariably treat Spenser”s Faeryland as coextens …