This brief, affordable poetry collection features more than 250 poems and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich.

Longman is proud to present the Penguin Academics Series Edition of Poetry. The Penguin Academics Series, in the tradition of Penguin Publishers, offers highly respected, highly affordable, trade format books by preeminent scholars.

This edition features new “Writing About Poetry” as well as more than 30 new selections, including poems by Florence Cassen Mayers, Sarah Cortez, and Timothy Murphy.