This volume contains a full selection of Keats' work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines.

A pocket-sized anthology of poems by Romantic-era poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, E E. Cummings,...

"William Blake is one of England's most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings togetherher personal favorites of Blake's poems,...

Gathers poems about various aspects of friendship by Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Robert Frost, Boris Pasternak, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Alexander Pushkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins

A collection of dozens of love letters from a variety of sources throughout history.