 | Complete Poems by J Keats
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £2.00 His 'Odes' are (in my opinion) some of the finest poems ever written and I particularly like 'ode on melancholy' (others differ). This is a nice edition and is easily digestible.
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 | The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by William Blake
Buy new: £10.89 / Used from: £3.87 An eccentric genius. Everyone knows 'The Tyger' and the song 'Jerusalem' (from Blake's poem 'Milton') but there are many other shining examples of brilliance in this edition.
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 | The Prelude: or Growth of a Poet's Mind (Text of 1805) (Oxford Standard Authors) by William Wordsworth
Buy new: £11.38 / Used from: £0.01 Wordsworth ranks alongside Milton and Shakespeare as one of the greatest english poets and this is why. 'The Prelude' is one of the most important books ever written.
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 | Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) by Donald H Reiman
Buy new: £9.38 / Used from: £4.46 Complete poetry of Shelley is hard to find but this is a great edition for students with superb notes and academic essays at the back. Check out 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' and 'Promethus Unbound'
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 | Lyrical Ballads (Routledge Classics) by William Wordsworth
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £4.50 An extremely significant radical collection that changed the face of english literature forever. 'The Thorn' and 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' stick out for me in particular.
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 | The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Coleridge
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £6.61 Coleridge is often seen only as Wordsworth's friend but was a genius poet in his own right. I love 'Kubla Khan' and 'This Lime Tree Bower my Prison'
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 | Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Lord Byron
Buy new: £3.77 / Used from: £0.01 Difficult to find complete editions of Byron's poetry. An exceptionally witty writer and his poems are accesible and very easy to read without diluting their genius. Incls.' Don Juan'
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 | The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by William Wordsworth
Buy new: £3.76 / Used from: £0.01 I Like Wordsworth a lot and complete editions are very hard to find so I'd thought I'd highlight this one. The print is small and crammed but a very cheap edition!
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