A Shropshire Lad

8 best books like A Shropshire Lad (A.E. Housman): The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, The Tower, Selected Poems, Goblin Market and Other Poems, The Wild Storm, Vol. 4, The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0486270726

Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde dazzled the salons of his day with supremely witty conversation and his ardent championship of a philosophy of aestheticism. As a writer, he produced The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the finest comedies in English, and other classic plays. His one novel, The...

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Author	Robert Frost
ISBN	0486275507

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense...

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Author	Wilfred Owen
ISBN	0811201325

Reposted November 4th, 2018 - in memory of November 4th, 1918, the poet's last battle!

I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...

The Tower

Author	W.B. Yeats
ISBN	0743247280

The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly...

Selected Poems

Author	Lord Byron
ISBN	0140424504

Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his...

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Author	Christina Rossetti
ISBN	0486280551

An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion...

The Wild Storm, Vol. 4

Author	Warren Ellis
ISBN	1401292712

Warren Ellis concludes his critically acclaimed series The Wild Storm the only way he knows how: With a bang.

Jenny Mei Sparks has been around for over a century. She's seen a lot of things. Enough bad stuff that she took twenty years off to get drunk. And now she's back, and she has a plan. The problem...

The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	1426423756

This collection of short stories is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes his first appearance with these unremarkable words: "Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir." Years later, when Jeeves became a household name, Wodehouse said he blushed to think of the off-hand way he had treated...