Browsing: Poetry

Milton’s great seventeenth-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by…

An indispensable collection of the Nobel Prize winner’s most renowned works.   “In ten years’ time,” wrote Edmund Wilson in…

The brilliant historical epic “Metamorphoses” is Ovid s magnum opus. He has brilliantly presented a vast canvas which offers a…

Virgil’s Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western…

“Visionary as Emerson” (The Nation): This stunning meditation on the joys of life and writing comes from the late Pulitzer Prize–winning poet whose work is hailed as “lovely” (Kirkus Reviews).

In this “complex period tapestry” (The New York Times Book Review) from the author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony embarks on a journey of love, sorrow, and destiny. “There’s much here to be savored and a great deal to be learned” (The Washington Post Book World).

A classic New York Times bestseller with over 47,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Straight-A student Kristina sinks into the hellish world of drug addiction in this “powerful and unsettling” story (Kirkus Reviews).

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during…

Join the Cat in the Hat as he makes learning to read a joy! It’s a rainy day and Dick…

This beloved, timeless children’s book tells the story of a tree who loves a boy. A “classic parable of selfless love and devotion” (Publishers Weekly) with simple illustrations and few words.