Geoffery ChaucerConsidered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of...

Kwong Kuen ShanIn ancient China, the cat was often a subject of art and poetry.This book contains dozens of exquisite original cat paintings, in colour, by Chinese artist Kwong Kuen...

Leonard CohenBook of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago.Leonard Cohen made his name as a...

Author: William Shakespeare King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works. The play...

Author: William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true;And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.The searing tragedy...

John MiltonThis epic is Milton's most famous work, employing the heterodox theology later expounded in De Doctrina Christiana.

OvidMary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis.Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create...

Olive Beaupre Miller From the Foreword: "Friends of Moon and Winds-so were the Japanese poets called who wrote the tiny poems that comprise the greater part of this book. Dewdrops...

Charlie Mackesy From the revered British illustrator, a modern fable for all ages that explores life’s universal lessons, featuring 100 color and black-and-white drawings.“What do you want to be when...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson At last – a complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson.During his lifetime Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Penny Whistles,...

Ezra Jacobs The poems in Closure are about prayer, life, purpose; about rain and birth and creativity; about Arab hatred and mining in South Africa; about Jewish holidays, a shul...

William Blake William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous "Illuminated Books," of which the Songs...