English Romantic Poetry
10 best books like English Romantic Poetry (Stanley Appelbaum): The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems, Selected Poetry, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, The Metaphysical Poets, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, Great Love Poems, Songs of Innocence, African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927, White Stains - Anaïs Nin & Friends (Delectus Classics of Erotic Literature)
| 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...
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ISBN | 0140424563 |
Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus, ' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation...
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 1586170260 |
Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a "progressive" sexual liberator. But this is not how Wilde saw himself. His actions and pretensions did not bring him happiness and fulfillment....
In this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'....
| Author | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| ISBN | 0140434127 |
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the...
| Author | Dorothy Parker |
| ISBN | 0743211480 |
During the early years of her career, while struggling to "keep body and soul apart" (as she ruefully put it later), Dorothy Parker wrote more than three hundred poems and verses for a variety of popular magazines and newspapers. Between 1926 and 1933 she collected most of these pieces in three volumes...
| Author | Shane Weller |
| ISBN | 0486272842 |
One 65-minute cassette of the finest love poems in the English language from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Works by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Andrew Marvell and many others, all beautifully and sensitively read by Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren and accompanied...
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486227642 |
William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous "Illuminated Books," of which the Songs of Innocence was the first and most popular. Unfortunately, Blake's vision is generally known to the...
| Author | Joan R. Sherman |
| ISBN | 0486296040 |
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the...
White Stains - Anaïs Nin & Friends (Delectus Classics of Erotic Literature)
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| ISBN | 1897767110 |
This collection of six sensual, yet explicit short stories is thought to have been written for an Oklahoma oil millionaire, Roy M. Johnson. Anais Nin is said to have paid a dollar per page to produce typescripts of explicit erotica for his own private amusement. In 'Alice' a couple spying on another couple...
| Author | Polly Campbell |
| ISBN | 1936740184 |
Pulling a raisin out of a two-year-old's nose probably wasn't on Buddha's path toward enlightenment, but it was one of the obstacles for author Polly Campbell. For many, stuck raisins and other real-life moments provide sometimes the only opportunity for spiritual growth in a day. Imperfect Spirituality...
| Author | Stephen L. Harris |
| ISBN | 0073535672 |
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights grew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature,...
| Author | Christina Rossetti |
| ISBN | 1853264296 |
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable...
English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
| Author | Paul Negri |
| ISBN | 0486404250 |
The Victorian period of English Literature is generally dated from the late 1830's to the turn of the 20th century (coinciding with the reign of Queen Victoria) and includes a roster of poets whose works are of perennial interests to literature students as well as enduringly popular with poetry lovers...
| Author | Philip Smith |
| ISBN | 0486285537 |
Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.
Among...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 1419137735 |
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...
| Author | Mary Klages |
| ISBN | 0826490735 |
This Guide for the Perplexed provides an advanced introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find intimidating, asking 'What is ''Literary Theory''?'...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
The Cenci was a verse drama written in the summer of 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was inspired by a real Italian family, the Cencis (especially Beatrice Cenci). Due to its theme of incest the play was considered unperformable in its day, and it was not performed in London until 1922. Later it was included...
The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction
| Author | Linda H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0393978877 |
I have to use the Norton Reader for my AP English Language & Composition course. This course has turned into one of my favorites of all time and it is undeniable that one of the core reasons for that is the Norton Reader. The diverse, timely, and thought provoking essays in this collection have been...
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...'
A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140005137 |
His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian...
