LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General

The stories behind the world's greatest poems, spanning 4,000 years of history, shining a light on the richness and variation of poetry. Includes the works of Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman and Maya Angelou, among others. von...

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature von Carey, John

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit. von Carey, John

John Carey's reviews for the Sunday Times are renowned for their careful thought and great wisdom. After more than forty years of reviewing, however?and upward of 1,000 reviews?this collection cherry-picks those books that Carey has most...

This book is a study of the rich and fascinating traditions found early Irish literature concerning smiths and the fashioning of metal. The smith had a special status within the traditional societies of early Ireland and elsewhere in the...

John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems. Ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plath and...