A burlesque masterpiece.
Ovid’s Banquet of Sense was published in 1595, and in the 117-stanza poem Chapman responds to contemporary erotic verse including Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis.
Based on Ovid’s erotic poetry (specifically his Amores), Chapman describes Ovid sensual experience as he watches Corinna bathing. The burlesque poem was popular enough at the time to be republished in 1639.
The great mock-heroic poem.
Pope's high-burlesque style satirises the cutting of a lock of Miss Arabella Fermor’s hair, without her consent, by her suitor Lord Petre.
Books I – IV exploring women’s role in society.
We have published Aurora Leigh in two separate volumes to accommodate the poem's length: Volume 1 (Books I to IV), and Volume 2 (Books V to IX). This e-book contains the first volume.
Keat’s awe-inspiring poems.
Written during the spring and autumn months of 1819, and published the following year, the Odes are now considered one of the high points of Romantic poetry.
Tennyson's poetic expression of grief upon the death of his friend, Arthur Hallam.
'In Memoriam' is written in stanzas of four octosyllabic lines, rhymed ABBA, and divided into 132 sections. The poem was published anonymously in 1850.
Mellifluous, sweet and honey-tongued. Sublime.
The famous sonnets now available in a new annotated edition optimised for electronic devices.
Originally published in 1609, the sonnets date from the mid-1590s.
