Poetry
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire - This translation by James McGowan was commended to my class by Ellis Hanson (see non-fiction) as the best english translation of Baudelaire available. These poems feature lots of great Decadent motifs; vampires, femmes fatale, misunderstood despairing artist antiheros, lesbianism, Satanism (old-school diabolist style), and syphilis.
Byron: Poems by George Gordon Noel Byron - I'm not sure why in God's name the cover is pink, but this volume includes such classics as "She Walks In Beauty", "The Destruction of Sennachrib", and "A Vision of Judgement".
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson - "Because I would not stop for Death/ he kindly stopped for me..."
Not Much Fun; The Lost Poetry of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker - The woman was vicious. *grin*
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe - "The play is the tragedy Man/ and the hero the conquerer worm." You know this stuff. But you'll still want this volume around for digging up obscure Poe quotations and reading aloud of an evening.
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias", "Peter Bell the Third", "The Mask of Anarchy", and many more from the man whose mother must have known he was going to be a poet when she gave him a name like Percy Bysshe.
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