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Title	Author	Description
W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse	W.H. Auden Auden	Auden's great, transformative anthology, assembled when his own work was at its most provocative and searching, is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English.
Dante: Poet of the Secular World Dante	Erich Auerbach Auerbach	An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas. Contributors: Michael Dirda
The New Life New Life	Dante Alighieri Dante	The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. Contributors: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Grief Lessons (Paperback): Four Plays by Euripides Grief Lessons	Euripides Euripides	"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides. Contributors: Anne Carson
Poems of the Late T'ang Poems of the Late T'ang	A.C. Graham Graham	A groundbreaking anthology that includes the work of some of the most famous poets of China. "You never forget the moment you first encounter a book that turns out to be a treasure for life. Especially works that open up new worlds."—Michael Wood, The Independent (UK)
Shelley: The Pursuit Shelley	Richard Holmes Holmes	Here we have the real Shelley at last—radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator.
In Parenthesis In Parenthesis	David Jones Jones	"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones introduces one of the grandest imaginative efforts to grapple with World War I.
Jejuri Jejuri	Arun Kolatkar Kolatkar	A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Contributors: Amit Chaudhuri
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse Stuffed Owl	D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Charles Lee Lewis	There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefly good Bad Verse. Contributors: Billy Collins
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam	Osip Mandelstam mandelstam	Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. Contributors: Clarence Brown, W.S. Merwin