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"A debut collection from a major new voice in contemporary poetry"--

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Features the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This title expresses the author's belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes.

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In the first part are poems of great satirical comedy and also of great passion and indignation, and in the second part, poems about the break-up of a marriage so intense they would hurt if they weren't also possessed of the healing gifts of truthfulness and humour.

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This volume offers more than 100 poems of Robert Service. Famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, he also wrote popular verse inspired by the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s during World War I.

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Combining a spontaneous lyric gift with a technically perfect mastery of traditional poetic forms, Christina Rossetti created some of the most imaginative and moving verse ever written. The Bible and the Poetry of Christina Rossetti is a complete guide to the work of this great poet.

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The earliest journals and poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg-including rare photographs and over 50 previously unpublished poems

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This unabridged translation features an Introduction by influential medievalist author and professor John Miles Foley that explores Chaucer's life and times. In this major new translation, Burton Raffel has done a masterful job of carrying Chaucer into modern, highly readable English while retaining the rhythm and formal charm that so distinguish "The Canterbury Tales."--Billy Collins

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"The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press"--Rear cover.

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"The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press"--Rear cover.

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A selection of the "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" that provides an introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. It offers character sketches of the colourful band of pilgrims who gather at a London inn on their way to Canterbury. It contains an introduction examining Chaucer's life and work and the literary influences on the Tales.

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Few students read the whole of "The Canterbury Tales, but "Fragment I", which contains the general prologue, "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Tale", "The Reeve's Tale" and "The Cook's Tale", raises many of the topics that arise from studying the tales as a whole.

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Contains selections from Open House, The Lost Son and Other Poems, Praise to the End, Words for the Wind, The Waking, I Am! Says the Lamb, and The Far Field in addition to sixteen previously unpublished poems.

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Originally published in 1969 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets - from Ovid to Housman to Pound. This work contains poems that pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad.

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Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation continues to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes from metaphysics to melancholy, social climbing to political satire, and from love to loss.

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Contains poetry Ben Jonson, one of the greatest English playwrights of the 17th century and also a lyric poet. The poems included are: "Epigrams", "The Forest and Underwoods", "On My First Son", "Song to Celia", "On Poet-Ape", and "An Ode to Himself". They offer a celebration of both one man's life, and of an age.

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The poetry of Hood (1799-1845) arranged as follows: poems originally issued in collections, in order of publication; miscellaneous poems not collected during his lifetime, in order of publication or writing; poems printed from manuscripts; poems published posthumously.