The Modern Library

TWENTY OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS PUBLISHED SINCE 1950

John Ashbery

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1977

W. H. Auden

City Without Walls 1969

Elizabeth Bishop

Complete Poems, 1927–1979 1986

Paul Durcan

A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems 1993

Thom Gunn

My Sad Captains 1961

Seamus Heaney

Field Work 1979

Anthony Hecht

Millions of Strange Shadows 1977

Geoffrey Hill

King Log 1968

Ted Hughes

The Hawk in the Rain 1957

Philip Larkin

The Whitsun Weddings 1964

Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell’s Poems: A Selection 1974

Derek Mahon

The Snow Party 1974

Les Murray

The Vernacular Republic 1982

Howard Nemerov

The Western Approaches 1975

Sylvia Plath

Ariel 1965

Adrienne Rich

The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950–1984 1984

Theodore Roethke

Collected Poems 1966

Anne Sexton

Complete Poems 1981

R. S. Thomas

Song at the Year’s Turning 1955

Derek Walcott

The Star-Apple Kingdom 1979