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The S4N Pocket Poems Series presents classic long poems and books of poetry as they were originally presented, free of interpretation and notes, and in an attractive size that can be carried and read anywhere.Presented here is the complete text of Shakespeare's Sonnets, first published in 1609. A companion volume containing Shakespeare's other narrative poems is forthcoming.William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Details for much of his early life are scant, although it is assumed that after his marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582 and the birth of three children by 1585, he made his way to London to work in the theater. While he began his career as an actor, his abilities as a playwright were soon evident, and by the mid-1590s there was no serious rival to his position as the preeminent playwright and poet of his time. The sonnet sequence that follows was not published until 1609, although many of the poems were probably written ten or fifteen years earlier. As with much concerning Shakespeare, the question of whether (and to what extent) the poems contain autobiographical material that couldn't find expression in his plays, remains a fruitful mystery.

The Selected Short Poems of Walt Whitman presents the best short poems by America's greatest poet. Unlike other editions of Whitman's poetry, we print the earliest and most powerful version of each poem, drawing from each edition of Leaves of Grass that Whitman published between 1855 and 1892. Walt Whitman was born in 1819 on Long Island. His early life was devoted to journalism, and throughout the 1840s he contributed fiction, essays, and more traditional poetry to many New York newspapers. The first edition of Leaves of Grass was published at the poet's own expense in 1855, and until his death in 1892 the book went through numerous revisions and expansions. While he did receive the early support of Ralph Waldo Emerson, many in the wider literary and public world were unable to forgive his frank treatment of sexuality, and the apparent formlessness of his poems. Whitman spent much of the Civil War in Washington, D.C., frequenting the soldier hospitals and caring for the wounded and dying. After the war, he become a guru of sorts to a handful of followers who vehemently defended his work, and many writers - including Oscar Wilde, in 1882 - began to make pilgrimages to Whitman's home in his later years. When he died in Camden, New Jersey, in 1892, the New York Times declared "we cannot call him a great poet unless we deny poetry to be an art." It is now recognized that he redefined poetry as no American had before or since.The S4N Pocket Poems Series presents classic long poems and books of poetry as they were originally presented, free of interpretation and notes, and in an attractive size that can be carried and read anywhere.

Alfred Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire in 1809. While attending Cambridge he met who was to become his closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly in 1833. Between then and 1849 Tennyson wrote In Memoriam, and it was first published anonymously in 1850.The S4N Pocket Poems Series presents classic long poems and books of poetry as they were originally presented, free of interpretation and notes, and in an attractive size that can be carried and read anywhere.

William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in Ireland, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in Ireland and England. His lifelong concerns are evident in his earliest poetry: history, mythology, and the occult; soon he also took up politics and drama, and he helped found the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1922, he became a senator of the Irish Free State, and he won the Nobel Prize in 1923. The following poems represent his best work through 1921.The S4N Pocket Poems Series presents classic long poems and books of poetry as they were originally presented, free of interpretation and notes, and in an attractive size that can be carried and read anywhere.