Books like Poems by Louis MacNeice

A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.

A brief profile of the nineteenth century English poet, Alfred Tennyson, accompanies selections from some of his best known works.

A poetic tale of a village told by diverse voices

***The Ballad of Reading Gaol*** is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Saturday 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge (ca. 1866 – 7 July 1896) had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was only aged 30 when executed. This had a profound effect on Wilde, inspiring the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers in 1898 under the name **C.3.3.**, which stood for cell block **C**, landing **3**, cell **3**. This ensured that Wilde's name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem's front cover. It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June 1899, that **C.3.3.** was actually Wilde.

An illustrated collection of fifteen parodies ranging from skewered nursery rhymes to epic slapstick sagas.

A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full.

xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm

This fifth volume of The Pelican Guide to English Literature covers the period from William Blake to Lord Byron. It begins with an account of the social and intellectual context of English literature during the Romantic period, followed by a survey of the literature itself. The rest of the book is made up of a series of essays dealing in detail with Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Crabbe, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Burns, Jane Austen, Scott, and the Essayists. Finally the volume contains an appendix of biographies and bibliographies (newly revised for this reprint).

Collected poems (1909-1935) -- Four quartets -- Old Possum's book of practical cats -- Murder in the cathedral -- The family reunion -- The cocktail party

A collection of short poems, mainly on themes suggested by the natural world.