Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

by Geoffrey Hill

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Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

by Geoffrey Hill

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Staying Alive by Neil Astley (editor)

William Wordsworth: The Major Works by Stephen Gill (editor)

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The Ring of Words by Roger McGough (editor)

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor)

William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor)

The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
by Virgil

The Ring of Words
by Roger McGough (editor)

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri

Paradise Lost
by John Milton