Everyman

Unpublished in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's, intensely personal lyrics have been much admired and very influential since.

John Clares verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound understanding of nature and of his contemporary rural society.

A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States' senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from