(Paperback, Main)

A book about Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. It is also an allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers.

(Hardback)

A take-off on Clement Clarke Moore's poem The night before Christmas, a.k.a. A visit from St. Nicholas.

(Paperback)

Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

(Paperback)

Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

(Paperback, Main)

Re-packaged in the much-loved Faber typographic look.

(Paperback)

A collection of poetry which explores the ways in which radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult and the plain. The subjects range from the importance of "sabbath" moments in which nothing seems to happen to the love between two aged horses.

(Paperback)

Presents a translation of the famous episodes - the sirens, Scylla and Charibdys, the Cyclops.

(Paperback)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

(Paperback)

The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.

(Paperback, Main)

W. H. Auden's classic long poem, now in Faber's poetry typographic series.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, Main)

A poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to make themselves understood by people indigenous to the island, had there been any.

(Paperback)

(Hardback, Main)

Collected edition gathers deftly crafted, dark, erotic poems of author of Hare Soup and Gethsemane Day with new unpublished material.

(Hardback, Main)

The authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets.

(Paperback)

Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.

(Paperback, Main)

The must-have Derek Walcott collection, encompassing all of his best-known and most popular poems.

(Paperback)

In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, acclaimed essayist and poet Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams' commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey.

(Paperback)

This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of Wordsworth's works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as `I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and `She Was a Phantom of Delight'.

(Paperback, Main)

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First World War to contemporary apocalypse. Both are remarkable additions to an important body of work.

(Paperback, Main)

From the 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling journey between exile and belonging, Europe and the New World, wanderlust and the inevitable pull of home.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Moving on to explore the constructed nature of childhood, via a long poem imagining her mothers experiences in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and in an elegy for Seamus Heaney, the poems also seek to contrast the isolation and privacy of an experience of family life with increasingly pervasive and relentless digital technologies.

(Paperback)

Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock and Popes hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, A Key to the Lock.