The Art of Love
Ovid's witty celebration of the battle of the sexes, here illustrated with a magnificent series of erotic paintings, has been triumphantly translated to reveal the poet's exuberant and seductive style.
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Poetry
The best words in the best order’ was Coleridge's definition of poetry: here you'll find collected works of some of the world's greatest poets in beautiful editions.
A Folio Anthology of Poetry
Introduced by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, this anthology is a celebration of poetry and the passion it inspires. It gathers together more than 300 of our favourite poems, spanning over 400 years.
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The Kelmscott Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
An opportunity to own a ‘landmark of printing’ in a facsimile edition that represents exceptional value. The finest poet of the Middle Ages and the inspiration for the leading lights of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Counts as 4 volumes
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass is a visionary masterpiece, a hymn to nature and humankind’s place in it. In the words of former poet laureate Andrew Motion in the introduction to this edition, it is ‘quite simply one of the most remarkable first books of poems ever published’.
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Counts as 2 volumes
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass is a visionary masterpiece, a hymn to nature and humankind’s place in it. In the words of former poet laureate Andrew Motion in the introduction to this edition, it is ‘quite simply one of the most remarkable first books of poems ever published’.
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The Folio Poets: Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The energy and daring of Tennyson's language, the profundity of his imagination, his ability to reach from the sober to the frivolous in a single couplet, make him one of the greatest of English poets. This beautiful leather-bound edition is introduced by Ruth Padel.
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The Folio Poets: Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
Writing about rustic characters in pastoral settings, in a deceptively simple style, Wordsworth challenged conventions of form and content to create a poetry as revolutionary as his politics. This beautiful leather-bound edition contains wood engravings by Peter Reddick.
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The Folio Poets: Yeats
W. B. Yeats
From his lyrical invocations of the Irish countryside to his mature poems of art and mortality, the work of Yeats is remarkable for its range and power. This leather-bound edition is introduced by Roy Foster and illustrated with engravings by Harry Brockway.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Simon Armitage
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of medieval literature. It is at once a stirring supernatural adventure and a profound meditation on courage, loyalty and human imperfection.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
Visionary, artist, poet and craftsman, William Blake had a unique view of the world around him. This exquisite little book is filled with his poems addressed to children, but exploring adult concerns with God, death, love and social justice.
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Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
Lyrical and lilting, a melodious prose-poem conceived as a 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood is an affectionate and funny hymn to Wales from its most celebrated son.
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