Geoffrey Chaucer 
Canterbury Tales 

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an …

This volume offers for the first time in any language a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735 804), numbering some 339 individual pieces and nearly 7, 000 lines. An introduction …

"Fires: The Ovens, and Other Tales Book 2" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson is a captivating masterpiece of English literature, offering a poetry collection that delves deep into the human …

Together with Auden, Spender and Mac Neice, C. Day Lewis was one of the leading young poets who in the 1930s broke away from the poetic establishment of those days. Day Lewis started writing poetry v …

The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868 9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido …

This is the first English translation of Dracontius Orestes, a Latin poem from Vandal North Africa that tells the mythic story of the cycle of murder and vengeance suffered by the family of …

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both …

‘A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs’ The New York Times US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has …

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six …

With a title inspired by an angry text that the sleep deprived, post-partum author once sent to her husband, this book is a must for anyone fed up with trying to survive modern life. This candid …