Poetry (Bookshelf)

Poetry (from the Greek ποίησις, poiesis, "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning.

Poetry has a long history. Early attempts to define it, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts focused on features such as repetition and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from prose. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental creative act using language.

—Excerpted from Poetry on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

Anthologies

• Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824-1897), ed.
  • The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language 
  • The Visions of England: Lyrics on leading men and events in English History 

• The World's Best Poetry
  • Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation 
  • Volume 4 The Higher Life 
  • Volume 8 National Spirit 
  • Volume 10 Poetical Quotations 

• The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics 

• Clarke, George Herbert (Ed.) A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 

French

See FR Poésie (Catégorie).

Children's

See also Children's Verse (Bookshelf).

Romantic

Below follow the works of notable English and Scottish Romantic poets. The list is not comprehensive, but it does contain some of this editor's favorite poems, such as Shelley's "Mont Blanc," Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and Byron's "Darkness."

• The Complete Works of Robert Burns 

• Byron, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
  • Volume 2 
  • Volume 3 
  • Volume 4 
  • Volume 5 
  • Volume 7 

• Clare, John (1793-1864)
  • Poems Chiefly from Manuscript 

• Keats, John
  • Poems 1817 
  • Poems Published in 1820 
  • Endymion 
  • Lamia 

• The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 

• Lyrical Ballads , by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth

Modern

• The Waste Land , by T. S. Eliot
• The Collected poems of Rupert Brooke 
• Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes by Walter De la Mare Volume I  Volume II. 
• Freedom, Truth and Beauty  by Edward Doyle (1851-?)
• Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
  • A Little Book of Western Verse 
  • Love-Songs of Childhood 
  • Songs and Other Verse 
• Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.  Volume II. 
• Archibald Lampman, 1861-1899
  • Among the Millet and Other Poems 
  • Lyrics of Earth 
  • Alcyone 
• Sidney Lanier 1842-1881
  • The Poems of Sidney Lanier 
  • Selected Poems of Sidney Lanier 
• George Parsons Lathrop, 1851-1898
  • Dreams and Days: Poems 
  • Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems 
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
  • The Song of Hiawatha 
  • The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  • The Song of Hiawatha 
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus 
  • Evangeline 
  • Evangeline, with Notes and Plan of Study 
• James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
  • The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell 
  • The Vision of Sir LaunfalAnd Other Poems by James Russell Lowell  Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.
  • The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations (English) 
• Lays of Ancient Rome  by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Collected Poems 1897-1907  by Henry Newbolt
• The New Morning  by Alfred Noyes
• Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909
  • A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V 
  • Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI 
  • A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI 
  • Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III 
  • Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III 
  • Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol V. 
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
  • Drum Taps  (English)
  • Poems By Walt Whitman  ed. Rossetti, William, 1829-1919
  • Leaves of Grass , Audio, Human-read 
  • Song of Myself Selections  (poetry?)
  • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd  (poetry?)

The First World War Poets

• Brooke, Rupert
  • 1914 and Other Poems

The Imagist Poets

• Multiple authors
  • Some Imagist Poets 

• Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.)
  • Hymen 
  • Sea Garden 

• Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)
  • Japanese Prints 

• Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) (1885-1930)
  • Amores 

• Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)
  • Dome of Many-Coloured Glass 
  • Men, Women and Ghosts 
  • Sword Blades and Poppy Seed 

The Metaphysical Poets

• Donne, John (1572-1631)
  • Death Be Not Proud 

• Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
  • To His Coy Mistress 

Renaissance

• La Divina Commedia di Dante , by Dante Alighieri
• Os Lusíadas , by Luís de Camões
• Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton,
  Selected Poetry by George Wither, and
  Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) 

Middle English

• The Rowley Poems  (hoax Middle-English, written in the 18th century) by Thomas Chatterton
• Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight 

Old English

• Beowulf  Edited by James A. Harrison, 1848-1911.
• Beowulf  Translated by Francis Barton Gummere.
• The Tale of Beowulf  Translated by William Morris and Alfred John Wyatt.
• Beowulf  Translated by Lesslie Hall.

Translations of Latin Verse

• Catullus
  • The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus  Translated into English by Richard Burton.

• Horace
  • The Works of Horace  Translated into English by C. Smart
  • Original sonnets on various subjects and odes paraphrased from Horace  Translated into English by Anna Seward.

• Ovid
  • The Metamorphoses  Translated into English by J. J. Howard

• Virgil
  • The Aeneid  Translated into English by John Dryden.

Translations of Greek Verse

• Anacreon
  • Odes d'Anacréon  Translated into French by Alexandre Machard.

• Homer
  • The Illiad  Translated into English by William Cowper.
  • The Odyssey  Translated into English by William Cowper.

• Sappho
  • Les poésies de Sapho de Lesbos  Translated into French by Jules-Henry Rédarez Saint-Remy.
  • Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics  Translated into English by Bliss Carman.