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Robert Goddard
[Paperback 2006]
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A beloved classic once again available in the U.S. "An engaging mystery novel with a literary angle that will make comparisons to A.S. Byatt and P.D. James" ("Washington Post Book World"), "Hand in Glove" is steeped in history, atmosphere, and intrigue. In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an... more
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E Lear
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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Description: One of the world's most loved writers, Edward Lear has delighted whole generations of readers with his verse. Now "The Book of Nonsense" is available once again from his original publishers. One of the world's most loved writers, Edward Lear has delighted whole generations of readers with his verse.... more
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Faiz Ahmen Faiz is looked on as the most important Urdu poet in both India and Pakistan. This collection of his poems is representative of the best in contemporary Urdu writing. The Urdu text is presented with English translations.... more
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Geoffrey Chaucer
[Paperback 2012]
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and... more
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John Milton ,
Milton John ,
William G Madsen
[Paperback 2005]
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Long regarded as one of the most powerful and influential poems in the English language, Paradise Lost still inspires intense debate about whether it manages "to justify the ways of God to men" or exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God. John Leonard's illuminating introduction is fully alive... more
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James Joyce ,
Chester G Anderson
[Paperback 1999]
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly... more
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Dorrane Jacobson ,
Doranne Jacobson
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From the Taj Mahal in the historic north to Goa in the graceful south, the historical, architectural, and rural glories of India are strikingly presented with an authoritative text that explores the spiritual as well as physical essence of this 5,000-year-old civilization.... more
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Daisy Hay
[Paperback 2011]
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"Young Romantics" tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective--celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. "Young Romantics" tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic... more
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William Blake
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Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a world in which spirits... more
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Anonymous ,
J A Burrow ,
Brian Stone
[Paperback 1987]
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Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the latter part of the fourteenth century. It is a remarkably subtle and accomplished poem, in which the hero's knightly... more
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Geoffrey Summerfield
[Paperback 2004]
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John Clare produced some of English poetry's most poignant and glorious lyrics. Writing not as an observer of nature but from an intimate knowledge of the wheatfields, hedgerows, and ditches of his village in Northamptonshire, he described animals, insects, trees, rivers, sunlight, and clouds with sublime sensitivity. But as enclosures... more
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Geoffrey Chaucer ,
Brian Stone
[Paperback 1983]
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Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who... more
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Burton Raffel ,
Neil D Isaacs
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William Shakespeare ,
R A Foakes
[Paperback 2000]
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Offers a complete edition of the play. Each volume in the series has been prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play. This newly revised edition of Shakespeare's vision... more
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Ted Hughes ,
Seamus Heaney
[Paperback 2005]
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"The Rattle Bag" is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's... more
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Robert Browning
[Paperback 2001]
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic language, and introduces everyday events of... more
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William Shakespeare ,
John Kerrigan
[Paperback 2000]
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When a volume of poetry entitled Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth;... more
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William Shakespeare ,
Germaine Greer
[Paperback 2009]
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Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful, and often breathtaking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one. Some are familiar--"Shall I compare thee... more
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Seamus Heaney
[Paperback 2002]
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From the bestselling translator of "Beowulf" comes a new collection of short takes and conversational poems recollecting his childhood in Ireland. A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of "Beowulf," "In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air" "That is water, on carpets of Bann stream,... more
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Lewis Carroll ,
Martin Gardner ,
Henry Holiday
[Paperback 2009]
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'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap'. Ever since Lewis Carroll's nonsense epic appeared in 1876, readers have joined his ten-man Snark-hunting crew and pursued... more
