Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
8 best books like Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Lord Byron): Eugene Onegin, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Rape of the Lock, The Lais of Marie de France, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream, Canzoniere, Mathilda
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0192838997 |
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
| Author | James Hogg |
| ISBN | 0192835904 |
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486281221 |
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1557429162 |
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.
I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
| Author | Marie de France |
| ISBN | 0140447598 |
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu,...
| Author | Francesco Petrarca |
| ISBN | 8806179497 |
In concomitanza con il settimo centenario della nascita del poeta, la curatrice, tra i massimi specialisti del Petrarca volgare, conclude un lavoro durato quasi vent'anni. Commentando minuziosamente ogni verso e ogni espressione petrarchesca, il fittissimo richiamo dei testi classici e della...
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| ISBN | 1406914061 |
Mary Shelley is exceedingly famous as the author of Frankenstein, but this work isn't known at all and wasn't even published until 1959. With good reason.
The story is that Mathilda's father leaves England after the death of his wife and doesn't return until she is 16 whereupon he falls in love...
