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One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy.

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Written in the twilight of the Roman Republic, the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus offers a delicious insight into the passions and gossip of high Roman society.

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Ana Enriqueta Teran is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. This edition reveals the power and beauty of this poet's Spanish poems through English versions of corresponding force. It is useful for various lovers of poetry.

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With complete verse translations of "The Divine Comedy" and "La Vita Nuova, " this collection realizes the scope and fire of Dante's genius in a single volume.

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In 'The Portal of the Mystery of Hope', Peguy offers a poem with a profound, moving and comprehensive theology, as incarnated in his celebrated image of the 'little girl Hope.' This volume also contains a biographical chronology, a bibliography, and a host of notes that situate the poem in the context of Peguy's life.

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Writing about poetry Diana O Hehir says, "I think of poetry as harnessed energy--as a marvelous way of taking the chaotic emotion, the turbulent perception, and recreating them as images that are specific, definite, directed. Miraculously, when this process works, it's one of expansion rather than diminution; the fortunate poet can reach out beyond

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Authored by one of North Koreas most acclaimed dissident writers, this is the first collection of Bandis poetry to be published in English.

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Concerned with transformations and dislocations - both physical and emotional - the poems in James Lasdun's second collection speak exquisitely of desire and loss.

Jetlagged, estranged, out of synch or out of kilter, the figures in these poems sometimes just miss each other, sometimes connect explosively.

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With an introduction by Marina Warner

Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798.

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"Sze-Lorrain offers a ... vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a 'ruined elegance.' Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from France, America, and Asia, the poet explores a rich array of historical and literary allusions to European masters, Asian sources, and American influences"--Dust jacket flap.

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Includes over 400 of Dickinson's poems, expressing her ideas on love, life, and nature, that were published after her death in 1886.

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When it comes to living the life of a senior, Wyman Sanders is fortunate to be able to utilize his past experience of being both a pediatrician and a psychiatrist. Wyman loves poetry and is able to express his current heart-felt experiences by writing about them in meaningful, positive perceptions of life. Wyman lives by the motto of being the most successful being (he) can be right now.

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Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas.

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In linked prose and haiku poetry, an autobiographical work by a great Japanese haiku poet shuttles between everyday events and the meaning of a life, and includes Japanese versions of some of the author's other poems.

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This book has much of the modern sense of the individual being at a loss, but a partial answer comes from the inexhaustible freshness and splendor of the environment, a possession that can come back to us equally from some idea of Petra or Nineveh or from a roadside ditch by a mill." Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses

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A collection of poetry offering a portrait of the people and landscape of a little-known region of southwestern France.

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The attack on poetry and the theater which occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries has been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations. This "war against poetry" was, in Professor Fraser's view, part of a larger cultural movement: the disengagement of the modern world from its medieval antecedents. Originally published in 1971

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