Poetry

Fighting Terms (1954) is the first book by Thom Gunn and a striking debut that announced his arrival as a poet of unusual discipline and intensity....

Moly (1971) is one of the key collections in the development of Thom Gunn's mature voice, written during his early years in the United States and r...

The Passages of Joy (1982) marks a significant moment in the career of Thom Gunn, bringing together poems written during a period of stylistic free...

A first printing of Robert P. Tristram Coffin’s Maine Ballads, published in 1938 at the height of his reputation as one of America’s leading region...

A handsome limited-edition Nonesuch Press printing of the poetry of Andrew Marvell - one of the most distinctive voices of seventeenth-century Engl...

A classic Oxford edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon and published by the Clarendon Press in 19...

W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911), famed as the librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, was also a sharp-witted comic poet and illustrator. The Bab...

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

Synonymorum Sylva, by Simon Pelegromius (Pelgrom). London: Ioyce Norton & Richardum Whittaker (Joyce Norton & Richard Whitaker), 1632. A s...

The Phanseys of William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, addressed to Margaret Lucas and her Letters in Reply was issued by the Nonesuch Press in 1...

A most elegant partial set of this celebrated 1805 Chalmers edition of Shakespeare’s works, comprising six of the original nine volumes. Beautifull...

The Idyls of Theocritus, accompanied here by the bucolic poems of Bion and Moschus, represents one of the finest Riccardi Press productions of the ...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

A handsome late‑Victorian edition of The Works of Alfred Tennyson, attractively bound in green leather with raised bands and gilt titling, compleme...

A smart 1829 volume of The Gem; A Literary Annual, edited by the poet and humorist Thomas Hood, featuring contributions from some of the era’s most...

A charming early 19th-century edition of William Hayley’s once-popular didactic poem, finely illustrated and attractively bound. The Triumphs of Te...

Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783-1785; Reproduced in Facsimile from the Poet's Manuscript with Transcript and the Original Introduction and Not...

This is an elegantly bound early 19th-century volume featuring a curated collection of popular English poetry by James Beattie, Thomas Gray, and Ol...

This attractively restored 1808 edition of Poems by William Cowper (1731-1800), is presented as a two-volume set housed in a finely crafted custom ...