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The Orchards of Syon — Geoffrey Hill

The Orchards of Syon

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Mirage of Separation — Billy Doyle

The Mirage of Separation

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Shelley — Graham Robertson

Graham Robertson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Der Kaufmann Von Venedig — William Shakespeare

Der Kaufmann Von Venedig

William Shakespeare

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland — Murray Pittock

Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Writing the Future Lazamon’s Prophetic History — Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley

Writing the Future Lazamon’s Prophetic History

Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Reflections of Love — Lisa Hawes

Reflections of Love

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Home at Grasmere Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth — Dorothy Wordsworth

Home at Grasmere Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Penguin Classics Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling — Rudyard Kipling

Penguin Classics Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Rogue Teacher — Mark Grist

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science — Valerie Purton

Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Cheryl’s Destinies — Stephen Sexton

Cheryl’s Destinies

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Cassiopeia Lying Eastward Poems on Love and Life in the English Countryside — Mark Whelehan

Cassiopeia Lying Eastward Poems on Love and Life in the English Countryside

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Randomly Moving Particles Poems — Andrew Motion

Randomly Moving Particles Poems

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Complete Poems — John Milton

The Complete Poems

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Sonnets And Poems By William Ellery Leonard (1906) — William Ellery Leonard

Sonnets And Poems By William Ellery Leonard (1906)

William Ellery Leonard

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Mancunia — Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne — Daniel Derrin

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Bennett Cerf’s Out on a Limerick A Collection of Over 300 of the World’s Best Printable Limericks — Bennett Cerf

Bennett Cerf’s Out on a Limerick A Collection of Over 300 of the World’s Best Printable Limericks

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

My Freedom Is My Right — Aaron Maboyi

My Freedom Is My Right

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Story of Psyche — Robert Gittings

The Story of Psyche

Robert Gittings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Manorism — Yomi Sode

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

A Matter of Identity A Life Recalled in Poetry — Margaret Sparshott

A Matter of Identity A Life Recalled in Poetry

Margaret Sparshott

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

If Lily’s Lament by Beckett Sinclair is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Poetry and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Geoffrey Hill, Billy Doyle, Geoffrey Chaucer, Graham Robertson, and others.

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