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Selected Poems — John Donne

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Elegy — Nick Payne

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Emergency Window — Ross Sutherland

Emergency Window

Ross Sutherland

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

Jeoffry The Poet’s Cat — Oliver Soden

Jeoffry The Poet’s Cat

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Wild Persistence — Katrina Naomi

Wild Persistence

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

Arnold — Stefan Collini

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

Lyrical Ballads 1798 — And Coleridge Wordsworth and Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads 1798

And Coleridge Wordsworth and Coleridge

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Speechless at Inch — James Caruth

Speechless at Inch

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

A Preface to Paradise Lost — C. S. Lewis

A Preface to Paradise Lost

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

Pope, Homer, and Manliness Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning — Carolyn D. Williams

Pope, Homer, and Manliness Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning

Carolyn D. Williams

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

Beowulf The Oldest English Epic — Charles William Kennedy

Beowulf The Oldest English Epic

Charles William Kennedy

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

Pound a Poem The Winning Entries from the National Schools Poetry Competition — John Blake

Pound a Poem The Winning Entries from the National Schools Poetry Competition

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

Canterbury Tales Introduction by Derek Pearsall — Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Introduction by Derek Pearsall

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

John Donne — Stevie Davies

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

Read Me and Laugh A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year — Gaby Morgan

Read Me and Laugh A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year

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

Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics — Carolyn Dinshaw

Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics

Carolyn Dinshaw

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

George Herbert’s 82 Psalmic Social Disorientation in The Temple — Nathan H. Nelson

George Herbert’s 82 Psalmic Social Disorientation in The Temple

Nathan H. Nelson

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

Interval — Judith Bishop

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

Hallelujah for 50ft Women Poems about Women’s Relationship to Their Bodies — Raving Beauties (Group)

Hallelujah for 50ft Women Poems about Women’s Relationship to Their Bodies

Raving Beauties (Group)

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

Paradise Lost — John Milton

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

Small Cures — Della Hicks-Wilson

Della Hicks-Wilson

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

The Auden Generation Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s — Samuel Hynes

The Auden Generation Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s

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

Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice — Louis MacNeice

Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice

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

If Notes from a Shipwreck by Jessica Mookherjee 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 John Donne, Nick Payne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ross Sutherland, and others.

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