My favorite poetry of all

Man meets raven in Poe's hauntingly brilliant verse. So good they made a Simpsons episode out of it.

Whitman's classic of American verse reads alternatively as a journey of self-exploration or an ego-trip, depending on your point of view - dip into it and decide for yourself.

A collection of Ezra Pound's early poetry. A controversial figure who flirted with fascism and expressed anti-Semitic views, his body of work nonetheless influenced writers from Bukowski to Eliot

Enter The Wasteland with trepidation, dear reader - or at least, armed with a dictionary and an encyclopedia. But you will be rewarded

The mysticism and religious fervour of Blake's works make for a heady mixture. The Tyger regularly figures among some of the most cherished works of English poetry

Milton's 17th-century epic on The Fall of Man (featuring a perversely appealing Satan) made him one of the greatest English poets

This collection, led by Yeats' Irish slant on the Arthurian legend of Gawain and the Green Knight, also contains what many see as Yeats' finest love poem, The Drinking Song

The foremost Romantic poet in the English language, Wordsworth's depictions of the landscape of his native Cumbria have spawned generations of imitators

Nine circles of human suffering, depicted in exquisite verse

A fine collection of The Bard's sonnets