This captivating collection shares the best poems and songs about Cork city, from Edmund Spenser to Theo Dorgan, and from 'The Bold Thady Quill' to Rory Gallagher's 'My Hometown'. Famous characters and landmarks of the Beautiful City are evoked, as is, of course, the River Lee.
Hopkins is now recognized as a major nineteenth-century poet. His poetry reveals his sense of vocation as both priest and poet, his love of beauty, and his search for a unifying sacramental view of creation. This selection includes many of his best-known poems, including `The Windhover' and `Felix Randall'.
This is a superb new translation of the great Augustan poet Horace's Odes and Epodes - brilliantly crafted and diverse poems of politics, friendship, love, and wine. The edition is supplemented by a lucid introduction, extensive notes, and glossary of names.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition. The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters.