Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
8 best books like Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (William Wordsworth): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Lady of Shalott, Ode to the West Wind, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The Eve of St. Agnes, Ode to a Nightingale
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0486223051 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring...
| Author | Alfred Tennyson |
| ISBN | 0192723715 |
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Tennyson's beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 0946497079 |
Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2
I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...
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,...
I’d always been vaguely or half aware of at least some of the lines contained in this poem – embedded such as they now are in our popular culture and so often used (in film, TV, radio etc). I had however neither read the poem in full, nor made any attempt to understand it, nor even knew that it was written...
This landmark edition of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion provides the first full-size reproduction of the Huntington Library's copy of the work, printed and colored by Blake and his wife, Catherine, in 1793. Generally seen as a continuation of The Book of Thel, this relatively early...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0141398299 |
This poem has a real good story to it; it wasn’t a conveyance of metaphor, but a story of love and longing. It’s a narrative poem, which means it’s fairly long and plot driven. It’s really quite imaginative in this because it explores different types of dreams and wishes through a few different...
Beautiful. Keats addresses the tragedy of life, where men are resigned to " sit and hear each other groan...where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies". But he juxtaposes this with the nightingale, his "immortal bird", whose song echoes through the ages being heard by the high and mighty and...
