John Donne: Selected Poetry; William Blake: Selected Poetry; John Keats: Selected Poetry; Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry; Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poetry (OUP, £3,99 each in UK)

With sound, not over wordy introductions and good notes, these volumes make a handy series and are cheaply priced. The Blake volume, edited by Michael Mason, does not duck the Prophetic Books but wisely does not give us too much of them either; the Keats selection gives The Eve of St Agnes in full, and the introduction stresses his social awareness and political radicalism. All volumes have useful tables of chronology.