Absalom and Achitophel

10 best books like Absalom and Achitophel (John Dryden): The Story of a Bad Boy, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard, Dover Beach and Other Poems, The Battle of Maldon, Preface to Shakespeare, Painted Ladies: Women At The Court Of Charles II, The Old Order: Stories of the South, A Defence of Poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl, Holy Sonnets

AuthorThomas Bailey Aldrich
ISBN1406806641
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
AuthorThomas Gray
ISBN1857362233
Personal Response:
Poetry is not my favorite thing to read. I kind of struggled through this poem, but I do think I took away the main point the author was trying to get across to me. This poem really made me think about what was going on. Unlike many books, this plot wasn't spoon fed to me.
Plot:
I...
AuthorMatthew Arnold
ISBN0486280373
This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that continue to rank him among the most loved and admired of Victorian poets. In addition to the title poem, it includes such masterpieces as "The Scholar...
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN1406535087
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, was one of England's greatest literary figures: a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his aphorisms. Between 1745 and 1755, Johnson...
Painted Ladies: Women At The Court Of Charles II
AuthorCatherine MacLeod
ISBN1855143216
The court of Charles II was a focus for exuberance, glamor and revelry after the constraints of the Civil War and Interregnum. Portraits, both literary and visual, were an important part of the cultural production of the court, reflecting the spirit of the age as much as the characteristics of the individuals...
The Old Order: Stories of the South
AuthorKatherine Anne Porter
ISBN0156685191
5 stars for all six of the connected stories from The Leaning Tower. Taken separately, they are each wonderful. "The Source" and "The Old Order" detail the last years of a strong-willed grandmother, matriarch of her clan, and steerswoman for their fortunes. Moving and often endearing. "The Witness"...
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0199110220
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:

"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0393976580
Nearly done teaching it. Borroff's translation is, I guess, tied for the best available, but--and I hate to be a snob about it--there's really no substitute for the original. I doubt Borroff would disagree with me.

which isn't to say that the translation can't be improved* in places: for example,...
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN0907482244
The second in my series (3) of reviews of John Donne as read in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne.

This collection of his Holy Sonnets (often called the "Westmoreland sequence") contains 19 sonnets written by Donne from his conversion to Anglicanism up until his death. These...
AuthorBen Jonson
ISBN0140422773
One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The Complete Poems contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published...
AuthorJohn Calvin
ISBN0801023904
When I purchased this book, I thought that it contained a direct debate between Cardinal Sadoleto and John Calvin via letters sent back and forth between the two men. This is not the case. The first letter is by Sadoleto to the citizens of Geneva, imploring them to return to Mother Church. The second letter...
AuthorCynewulf
ISBN0859895033
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius.

This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction...
AuthorWilliam Wordsworth
ISBN1428604170
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
AuthorJohn Keats
ISBN1419137735
زیبایی حقیقت است ، حقیقت زیبایی است
این است آنچه تو در زمین می دانی و باید بدانی

اين‌ جمله‌، بخشي‌ از دو سطر پاياني‌ شعري‌ از جان‌ كيتس‌ (1821ـ1795) شاعر...
AuthorWakefield Master
Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBook, “The play is actually two separate stories presented sequentially; the first is a non-biblical story about a thief, Mak, who steals a sheep from three shepherds. He and his wife, Gill, attempt to...
AuthorJohn Milton
ISBN1434632466
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
The Dunciad
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN1419160362
Even when it was first released, 'The Dunciad' was not a poem which was received positively by everyone. It was, and still remains, very controversial. Some critics have noted that changing moral norms and changing historical circumstances have further enfeebled the poem's relevance nowadays.

Granted,...
The Film Experience
AuthorTimothy Corrigan
ISBN1403932344
"The Film Experience" is the only text to combine a serious, comprehensive approach to the study of film with a practical and engaging style. This dynamic text discusses form and technique within historical and cultural contexts and makes the connection between how film techniques work and how they...
Introductory Readings
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0872203395
Drawn from the translations and editorial aids of Irwin and Fine's Aristotle, "Selections" (Hackett Publishing Co., 1995), this anthology will be most useful to instructors who must try to do justice to Aristotle in a semester-long ancient-philosophy survey, but it will also be appropriate for...
Life in the Iron Mills
AuthorRebecca Harding Davis
I wasn't quite sure of what to make of this novella when I first picked it up for my modernist literature class. It's a rather short story, which is fine by me, not nearly as long as the books I have read for my other classes, and I was able to plug through it in one sitting. Regardless of the length of this story,...
Innkeeper
AuthorJohn Piper
ISBN1581340273
Only two weeks from His crucifixion, Jesus has stopped in Bethlehem. He has returned to visit someone important--the innkeeper who made a place for Mary and Joseph the night He was born. But His greater purpose in coming is to pay a debt. What did it cost to house the Son of God?

Through this imaginative...
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