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Rupi Kaur második verseskötete is hasonló sikert aratott, mint az első a Milk and Honey.Rupi Kaur is a top ten Sunday Times bestselling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry. She started drawing at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and said - draw your heart out. After completing her degree in rhetoricand professional writing, she published her first collection of poems, milk and honey, in 2015, which quickly became an international bestseller. It has since sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 23 languages. Herlong-awaited second collection continues her exploration of themes including love, loss, trauma, healing and femininity. Along with writing and illustrating, Rupi has performed her poetry to sold-out audiences across the world.

Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literaryworld, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education

A Dirty Beasts Roald Dahl egyik legnépszerűbb angol gyerekverses kötete, melyet olyan koszos állatokról írt,mint a malac, a krokodil, vagy éppen a skorpió. Hogy a skorpió éppen mitől lett koszos fenevad, az Dahl eme angolkönyvéből kiderül. A könyvet számos színes rajzzal is illusztrálták, így a még angolul nem tudó gyerekek is élvezhetika közös olvasást.

A new selection of Burns's poems and songs using the first published versions of the poems, reflecting the wider social contexts in which they were produced and read by contemporary readers.Includes the whole of Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published in Kilmarnock in 1786, and the volume which made Burns famous.Generous selections of songs from The Scots Musical Museum and A Select Collection of Scottish Airs, including their full musical scores.Includes two original illustrations and maps of places often mentioned in Burns's poems

The Fight at FinnsburhTranslated by Kevin Crossley-HollandEdited with an introduction and notes by Heather O'DonoghueBeowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of theworld's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing first the terrifying, demonic monster Grendel, and thenGrendel's infuriated and vengeful mother. A lifetime later, Beowulf's own kingdom, Geatland, is threatened by a fiery dragon

Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famousPreface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.The only edition to combine the first edition of 1798 with the enlarged edition of 1802.Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey'. The inclusion of both texts shows how the collection developedagainst the changing political situation of the time, and the private lives of the poets.Includes Wordsworth's famous Preface in its fullest form, a key document for Romanticism and for poetry in general, and his important Appendix on Poetic Diction.Wide-ranging introduction offers insight into the experience of the collection's first readers and the astonishing quality of the poems. It provides biographical background, an account of the poets' collaboration, and how they were affected by thepolitical situation at home and abroad.Appendices include Coleridge's famous glosses to 'The Ancient Mariner', added in 1817, Wordsworth's letters to Charles James Fox and John Wilson, and Wilson's letter to Wordsworth, which complement the Preface in representing Wordsworth's defence of hispoems.Helpful notes provide glosses and contextual information as well as details of composition and revision.

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers. Containing 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Selected Poems is the perfect way to begin with one of thedefining figures of the twentieth century. This edition also features an introductory essay by Seamus Heaney.

To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hourWilliam Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a majorcontributor to the Romantic Movement.This edition presents Blake's poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable 'prophetic' poems,including the whole of his two diffuse epics, Milton and Jerusalem.Blake's poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its keyassumptions.