Collected Poems of Robert Burns
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| Author | Thomas Gray |
| ISBN | 1857362233 |
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...
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| ISBN | 1853264016 |
William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to...
| Author | A.E. Housman |
| ISBN | 0805005471 |
Introduction, by Nick Laird
--A Shropshire Lad
Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0060924209 |
This is one of my favorite all-time poetry anthologies. I picked it up at a discount bookstore in San Francisco, back when I was still a reader searching for the right books. And I swear, back when I was reading mostly fiction and memoir, and my depression was making nonsense of my writing, this book brought...
| Author | Kathleen Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1568522355 |
This is a very long anthology that tries very hard to be comprehensive. As a resource for those interested in the history of Irish poetry it is quite useful (the subtitle is "The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present"). For scholars it has less utility as it is rather short on annotations...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 1853264032 |
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download,...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1853264059 |
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling...
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
| ISBN | 1853264148 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 1853264202 |
There are some truly outstanding poems in this collection. The most well known among them would be 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner', although Christabel is one of my personal favourites.
There are varying themes within this volume, ranging from love and loss and bereavement, to praise for...
| Author | John Dryden |
| ISBN | 0192840770 |
John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This authoritative edition brings together a unique...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0395809991 |
The first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey Milton's...
| Author | Lord Byron |
| ISBN | 0312051247 |
Truly the epitome of the Romantic Poet, Lord Byron traveled and loved throughout Europe and wrote picaresque verse that proved immensely popular to audiences of his day. The man whose name is synonymous with romance gave his life in the noble cause of Greek liberty at the young age of thirty-six.
Byron's...
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| ISBN | 0140422773 |
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...
| Author | Thom Gunn |
| ISBN | 0374524335 |
The first of the poems in Thom Gunn’s Collected to really knock me out appears half way through his second book, The Sense of Movement (1957). In the poem, “To Yvor Winters, 1955,” Gunn pays homage to his former teacher with a portrait of the Stanford professor that compares his training of Airedale...
| Author | John Donne |
| ISBN | 1853264008 |
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne's poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction...
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 1853264121 |
List of Works by Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
William Blake Biography
* America: A Prophecy
* Auguries of Innocence
* The Book of Thel
* Eternity
* Europe: A Prophecy
* The Gates of Paradise
* I Heard an...
| Author | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ISBN | 1432625888 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. 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 for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ISBN | 0141025123 |
This selection includes poems from five of Carol Ann Duffy's previous collections, including:
Standing Female Nude
,
Selling Manhattan
,
The Other Country
,
Mean Time
, and
The World's Wife
...
From
Standing Female Nude
(1985)...
There are not enough faces. Your own...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1853264318 |
In One Volume Complete. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as...
The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
| Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| ISBN | 1425527345 |
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to...
| Author | E.E. Cummings |
| ISBN | 0871401649 |
is 5 is an early collection of poems by E. E. Cummings (his fifth, if I'm not mistaken). The title, however, is not derived from this being his fifth collection, but rather from Cummings's approach to writing poetry, as Cummings explains in the Foreword...
Ineluctable preoccupation with The Verb...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 1430482842 |
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
