Ecco Press Essential Poets Series

Although Poetry Daily's focus is on contemporary poetry, from time to time we bring you samplings of noteworthy publications reaching back a good bit farther into the history of poetry in English. Here are some selections from The Essential Poets, published by The Ecco Press, a series which began in 1988 with The Essential Keats and which continues to expand:

• "The Sick Rose," by William Blake
• "The Convergence of the Twain," by Thomas Hardy
• "Ithaka," by C. P. Cavafy
• "The Simplon Pass," by William Wordsworth
• "There is a pain—so utter—," by Emily Dickinson
• "Dulnesse," by George Herbert

About The Essential Poets Series.