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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure and romance. This splendid new translation - by one of the world's leading poets - has already been acclaimed in America. Modern and Middle English parallel text edition.

W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his poetry was unavailable in Britain for over 35 years until Bloodaxe published this edition of his Selected Poems in 2007.

Poet and environmentalist W.S. Merwin moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last thirty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm. What Is a Garden? collects eight of Merwin's poems and three of his essays emblematic of his palm garden writings and presents them alongside Larry Cameron's spectacular images of Merwin's garden.

Paperback of WS Merwin's most recent volume, a book infused with "buoyancy and light." (Booklist)

A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text.It is the height of Christmas and New Year's revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthur's court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must pro...

Late in life our most revered poet delivers a verdant collection that rivals the best from his storied career.

Fiftieth Anniversary edition of a revolutionary book that still stuns with its prophetic, political, and stylistic force

This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin's vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

With "Lament for the Makers" W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet. Following the title poem, Merwin presents works by Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Muir, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E...

Reissued classic translated by W.S. Merwin that includes examples of every type of Spanish ballad.

Winner of the National Book Award, Migration is the definitive Merwin volume. Now in paperback.

Merwin is American poetry's eminence gris--winner of every major literary prize this country offers.

Hailed by Peter Davison in the Boston Sunday Globe as a poet who "engages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can match, ” W. S. Merwin now gives us The Pupil, a volume of astonishing range and extraordinary beauty: a major literary event.These are poems of great lyrical intensity, concerned with darkness and light, with the seasons, and with the passing of time across landscapes that are both vast...

This major collection, by a major American poet who has been awarded the Marshall, Bollingen, Pulitzer, and other important prizes for mastery of his art, is concerned with the people, countryside, and creatures of southwest France. "Merwin writes, " J.D. McClatchy has said in THE NEW YORKER, "with one of the most distinctive and original voices in American poetry.

In Travels, one of the most beautiful and moving collections of poetry of his career, W. S. Merwin displays his narrative gifts to provide us with a book of deep historical resonance and luminous poetic grace…With each new book we have been reminded why, for forty years, he has remained a pivotal figure in the literary life of this country…[he] continues to earn his place as one of our most influential and compelling contemporary poets." -Davi...

The greatest surviving medieval French epic, The Song of Roland chronicles the deeds and doings of the valiant Roland, nephew to Charlemagne, who fights to his death against the Saracens. Against the bloody backdrop of the struggle between Christianity and Islam, The Song of Roland remains a vivid portrayal of medieval life and ideals, of knightly adventure and feudal politics.

Poetry. W. S. Merwin's SECOND FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy." This work has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time, and the poet's preface places the work in proper historical - and autobiographical - context. Collects The Movi...

Now in paperback, a book of lyric poems in Merwin's inimitable, mesmerizing style. These surround a central series of moving autobiographical poems, the longest, Testimony, which traces the path of his life, culminates with the stunning image of Merwin as a boy visiting New York -- told that the span of humankind's time on earth thus far is as a postage stamp resting atop the Empire State Building.Merwin's rhythms and sound evoke warm and cool...