The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time Baudelaire introduced ordinary objects into poetry – likening the sky ...
The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...
To dig into E.E. Cummings’ collected poems is often to see a man drawn to sentimental topics and desperately seeking a way to desentimentalize them.