Written in free metres, this selection of verse by one of America's major 19th century poets ranges across every kind of subject in a characteristically exalted mood. This volume covers every period of Whitman's career, and includes many poems from Leaves of Grass .

Donne is mainly celebrated as a love poet, but he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and of a series of religious poems. All these genres are represented in this volume, together with a selection from his prayers, letters and sermons, presenting a complete portrait of the man.

A best seller in his lifetime, Edwin Arlington Robinson is due to be restored to his rightful place in literary history as one of the first of the great American Modernist poets. His lyric poems illuminate the most unlikely subjects - ordinary people, especially the downtrodden, the bereft and the misunderstood.

A complete, annotated edition of all Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the SONNETS, VENUS AND ADONIS and THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, with an introduction by Helen Vendler. From the EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.

Provides a encyclopaedic reference to each destination's history, religion, art and architecture with more than 1,000 illustrations and photographs including 3D architectural drawings. This work is divided into three sections for ease of use: the encyclopaedia, the itineraries and a section of practical advice and information.

Evelyn was a scholar, a scientific amateur, a garden designer and architect, and a founder member of the Royal Society who published a magisterial book about trees, Sylva, and many pamphlets on assorted subjects. This work is a vivid portrait of the social, personal and political life of a society in ferment by one of its major players.

Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of P G Wodehouse's death, the Everyman Wodehouse contains all the novels and stories, edited and reset. This collection of eleven short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman's gentleman - Jeeves.

This volume contains extensive selections from Paradise Lost , chosen to illustrate the author's genius for high drama, vivid description and savage irony. In addition, there are substantial extracts from Comus and Samson Agonistes , as well as many of his shorter poems and sonnets.