Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings
10 best books like Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings (Philip Sidney): The Poems, Hero and Leander, Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College), The Complete English Poems, Edmund Spenser's Poetry, The Poetry Handbook, Fox Makes Friends, The Victorian Age in Literature, The Complete Poems
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0553213091 |
The Poems
Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious “dark lady.” More profound than...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 1434400905 |
This poem appears to be a distant ancestor of all those horror films where teen couples die horribly as a consequence of sneaking off to have illicit pre-marital sex. Our cultural obsession with virginity as a symbol of moral purity and an only marginally more subtle form of Patriarchal reduction of...
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0691018618 |
"Biographia Literaria" has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art. Following the text of the 1817 edition,...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0669212121 |
Although Tolkien fans will no doubt disagree, Klaeber's Beowulf is undoubtably the most important work on the poem ever produced and after ninety years is still the most authoritative edition of the text.
First published in 1922, one of the most exciting periods in Beowulfian studies and...
| Author | George Herbert |
| ISBN | 0140424555 |
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery...
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| ISBN | 0393962997 |
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
| Author | John Lennard |
| ISBN | 0199265380 |
This volume is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings.
The...
| Author | Adam Relf |
| ISBN | 1402727569 |
Poor little Fox! He's all alone in his room, with no friends at all. So when Mama suggests that he make some, Fox sets out to do that...literally. "What can I make a friend out of?" he wonders. Soon, he's gathered all the materials he things he needs--sticks, stones, fruit, and more--and built his first...
The Victorian Age in Literature
‘I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.’ In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly...
| 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 | Andrew Marvell |
| ISBN | 0140424571 |
Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry,...
| Author | Andrew Harvey |
| ISBN | 0618056750 |
Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by...
| Author | Cynewulf |
| ISBN | 0859895033 |
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...
| Author | John Marston |
| ISBN | 1854596969 |
The strength of this play is in the language, not the plot or charcaterisation or dramatic tension (although to be fair one should make judgements about plays which one has only read with caution: Shakespeare's comedies tend to look tame in print). The Malcontent closely parallels Tourneur's (if it...
| Author | Matsuo Bashō |
| ISBN | 0791461661 |
In summer rains
The crane's legs
become short
Leaving the hot springs
Looking back how many times --
Beneath the mist
Ill on a journey:
My dreams roam round
over withered fields
Three of Basho's poems, from early, middle and late career. These new...
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth 6 June, 1982
Read for AP English. I rather like Wordsworth, even though I'm not a huge poetry fan.
Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume II, which I have kept
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31 March, 2017
Reread today...
A Woman Killed with Kindness
| Author | Thomas Heywood |
| ISBN | 0393900525 |
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 1425009131 |
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
Milton's poetry...
