Auden's great anthology is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English. Auden looked for a poetry that was clear, enjoyable, and absolutely modern; taking full account of popular traditions, he includes ballads, chanteys, ditties, nursery rhymes, streetcalls, bathroom graffiti, and tombstone epitaphs; folk songs, vaudeville turns, and blues, not to mention limericks and clerihews. This new edition restores previously censored poems.

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Translated by Ciaran Carson

This is a truly original retelling of Dante's epic journey that will surprise and renew the 21st-century reader's faith in the art of translation. Remarkably inventive, Ciaran Carson's Inferno deserves comparison with Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid.

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by David Jones (1895-1974)
Preface by T. S. Eliot
"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War. In extraordinary prose and poetry, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents at once a panoramic and intimate world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death.
"A work of genius." —T.S. Eliot
1-59017-036-9 • Paperback

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by Osip Mandelstam • Translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin

Osip Mandelstam is the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. He was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik revolution. His last poems, written on the run in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, provide an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of art in the presence of state terror.

PB • 5" x 8" • 167 pp

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Selected and Arranged by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee
Introduction by Billy Collins

The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter...On the contrary...There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats among many others, and an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetities of, 59") that is itself and inspired folly.

PB • 5" x 8" • 328 pp

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by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian
Preface by Michael Palmer • Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This 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. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers,The New Life is one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.
1-59017-011-3 • Paperback

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