Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe
An audio CD of readings of Mr. Poe's works.
Collected Poems of Robert Frost
Robert Frost's legacy is a vision of startling clarity and bottomless empathy. His poems
are deceptively simple, and anyone who has not revisited them since Junior High School is in for a
surprise of major proportions: What seemed so simple, "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy
Evening" perhaps, dazzles anew with complexity. Those quaint New England homilies are really
metaphors for the most subtle observations. What seems to be a story about the life of nature is
really a lesson about the nature of life. Frost has been criticized for being too accessible, as if
communicating in one's writing were a sin. But while he is accessible, he is never transparent. These
poems are a well one can return to again and again for a fresh drink, a fresh perspective, a long,
sweet sip.
The Road Not Taken : A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems
Includes "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Dust of Snow", and of
course, "The Road Not Taken".
Blake by Peter Ackroyd
William Blake, one of the eighteenth century's most cryptic poets and prophetic artists, is
re-examined and re-envisioned by Ackroyd in this both intelligently researched and highly sensitive
biography. Ackroyd goes beyond the facts of a great life to situating Blake in his
world--middle-class London amidst a radical and mystical religious and philosophical climate.
Ackroyd takes surprising care in exploring Blake's childhood, education, training as an artist,
marriage, and interior spiritual terrain. Moreover, he offers adept insights into Blake's influences and
work, art and poetry (which he rightly shows as inherently linked).
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of
Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, it includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of
poems and critical commentary by Harold Bloom.
The Complete Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long,
long thoughts."