Literature & Poetry

The fortunes of two men - Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English laywer - become entwined through their love for Lucie Manette. Drawn together to the streets of Paris, their fate is played out under the vengeful shadow of La Guillotine.

Now in paperback, the stunning lifework of this beloved prize-winning poet, gathered in one volume, covering sixty years of poetry, from 1956 to 2016. This celebratory volume covers nearly all of Marie Ponsot's published work, from True Minds (published in 1956 as number five in the famous Pocket Poets ...

Years of beautiful, rare, and sometimes hilariously awful Jane Austen covers with entertaining and informative text.

Providing a user-friendly, comprehensive guide to world literature past and present, this volume covers everything from the precision of the Japanese haiku to the baggy, angst ridden maunderings of the Great American Novel.

Join some of England's best-loved writers in this day-by-day celebration of an English year. Diary entries by literary figures such as Gilbert White and Thomas Hardy guide us through the year, accompanied by poems and quotations celebrating the changing seasons, and passages explaining the origins of some of our oldest festive traditions.

Sure to delight and inspire, this elegant anthology of translated Chinese Poetry features treasured poems, presented simply and elegantly, encased in a deluxe foiled cover, that both chronicle and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of China.

A collection that brings together verses that mark the last moments of life, the passing from one stage to another. The poems and readings offer a wide variety of beautiful, lyrical, insightful writings on death, grieving and healing by poets including Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson and John Keats. A source of comfort, solace and fortitude.

Spanning across centuries and genres, this comprehensive collection of poetry and quotes celebrates the LGBT experience in all its varied, complex forms. This moving and evocative selection features writings from a wide range of voices, including Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and more. Full of passion, wit, candour and vulnerability.

In a celebration of women's voices throughout history, this collection brings together powerful and diverse writing from around the world. This is the latest anthology in a series of beautiful gift books of inspirational verse.

This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era's most engaging and highly esteemed poet-critics. Like Randall Jarrell, whose achievement is assessed here, Ford combines a refreshing openness to innovation with an authoritative awareness of what makes ...

Hiking routes and city strolls inspired by artists, writers, and composers.

In this charming and witty dialogue translated by the first professional woman writer in English, a 17th century astronomer staying at the chateau of a beautiful Marchioness accompanies her into her garden at night and introduces her to the new discoveries of astronomy Although more than 300 years old, ...

A historical overview explains what modernist literature was by taking the reader through the major figures, ideas and movements, focusing particularly on the core years of 1890-1930 but also looking before to Modernism's influences and precursors and beyond to its continuation and legacy.

An anthology of poems dedicated to the people of Palestine and their long struggle for freedom "Poems for Palestine" was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, as a website open to all comers, all free to upload their work. The broad spectrum of the ...

What is fate, in a culture of free will and self-determination? Where do we project our doom, that ancient and evolving belief in pre-destination? In this issue of Granta, twenty writers meditate on fate, in all its many forms.

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published

The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers, from John Clare and Ivor Gurney, to marginal figures such as Leigh Hunt and Joseph Severn, and reassess the less well-known work of celebrated writers including John Donne, Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy.

Romantic, poetic and heartfelt, Nick Cave's Sick Bag Song is a contemporary epic, somewhere between Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Wasteland

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet or poets of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.