Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Though best known as a metaphysical poet, Coleridge also wrote autobiographical poems about love, the simple pleasures of the outdoors, and about reflections on life from old age. In this collection, renowned Coleridge biographer Richard Holmes brings us a full picture of the poet's accomplishments with poems divided into eight categories of theme and genre. Find out more here.

John Keats

In his own time, Keats was roundly criticized for his politics. However the young man who died only four years after his first publication is now hailed as a genius for poems such as "Ode to a Nightingale" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." In this acclaimed volume, editor John Barnard collects all the poems written by Keats before his death at age twenty-six from consumption. He also provides extensive notes on the text. Click here for more.

W.B. Yeats

The inspiration for countless poetry societies and forums, W.B. Yeats has become an icon not only of Irish poetry but of the Western canon. Writing in the late nineteenth century, Yeats was known for his passion in love, politics, and literature. This collection showcases Yeats writing, including the lesser-known narrative poem "The Wanderings of Oisin" and lyrics from his work as a poetic dramatist. Read more about Yeats here.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke once wrote that "poems are not ... simply emotions ... they are experiences." And to read his work is an experience indeed. His books Letters to a Young Poet and The Notebooks of Malte Lorrids Brigge have a cultish following, and his poems are considered alongside Goethe's as some of Germany's greatest. This selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of Rilke's earliest poems to the increasingly effusive outpourings of his later life. Click here to find out more.

Robert Graves

Over his seventy years, Graves published more than a thousand poems, crossed paths with such luminaries as Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein, and valiantly served in the First World War. His work encompasses both intensely personal reflections on love and universal themes of war, religion, and mythology. This comprehensive collection offers readers work published in Graves's lifetime as well as posthumous poems. Read more here.