Many of the most popular British poets - the ones most taught and studied in classrooms - wrote during the 19th century. Among them were the famous Romantic poets, including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordworth, John Keats, George Gordon Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Victorian poets, such as Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century" is a new encyclopedic guide to the 19th-century authors, poetry, historical places, and themes common to this literary period.

"The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present" is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems. Containing approximately 500 entries that span the globe and cover the most prominent writers from each continent and many of the world's islands, this indispensable guide is the perfect companion to poetry courses. Appendixes include a general bibliography, a list of poets by geographic region, and a list of Nobel Prize winners.

In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism. The concept and contents were discussed with Robert Motherwell and met with his enthusiastic approval. The essays, manifestos, poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists-- their convictions, styles, and spirit

Poetry 1900-2000: One Hundred Poets From Wales

This is certainly a remarkable book, 875 pages long. 100 poets, some 600 poems in all. If you are going on holiday to some boring place like Lanzarote or Malta, take it with you.

The Power of Poetry for School Leadership

This work is an attempt to highlight issues of human need in work, particularly in schools, and to suggest some ways in which they can be attended to. It shows ways that school leaders can use aspects of the poet's craft to develop insights, and sharpen their communications.