The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Andrew Marvell
from Penguin Classics
Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell’s ward, satirist, and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity, and includes lyrical love poetry, religious works, and biting satire. From the passionately erotic “To His Coy Mistress” to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual “On a Drop of Dew,” in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery.
Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Donne
from Dover Publications
"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Andrew Marvell
from Dover Publications
Marvell: The Poems of Andrew Marvell (Longman Annotated English Poets)
by Nigel Smith
from Longman
Marvell: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Andrew Marvell
from Everyman's Library
The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including “The Garden,” “The Definition of Love,” “Bermudas,” “To His Coy Mistress,” and the “Horatian Ode” to Cromwell. Marvell’s work is marked by extraordinary variety, ranging from incomparable lyric explorations of the inner life to satiric poems on the famous men and important issues of his time–one of the most politically volatile epochs in England’s history. From the lover’s famous admonition, “Had we but World enough, and Time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime,” to the image of the solitary poet “Annihilating all that’s made / To a green Thought in a green Shade,” Marvell’s poetry has earned a permanent place in the canon and in the hearts of poetry lovers.
World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell
by Nicholas Murray
from St Martins Pr
Poems of Andrew Marvell (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Andrew Marvell
from Everyman's Library
Introduction by A. Alvarez
Listen & Read Great Love Poems (Book & Audio Cassette) (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William Shakespeare
from Dover Publications
Classic Hundred All-Time Favorite Poems
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
from Highbridge Audio
Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves. That's the concept behind The Classic Hundred, and it works brilliantly. William Harmon found the 100 most anthologized poems in English, based on the ninth edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry—the most objective measurement of greatness available, representing consensus among the editors of some 400 anthologies. Then he put them in order and prefaced each one with concise, erudite, often humorous commentary. The range of poets, subjects, and forms—from Shakespeare to Frost, from love and death to crime and punishment, from sonnets to odes—makes this an entertaining, enlightening, and indispensable aural guide to the finest verse in the English language.
Poems of Faith (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Donne
from Dover Publications
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