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Milton: A Poem (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Vol 5)

10 best books like Milton: A Poem (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Vol 5) (William Blake): The Battle of Maldon, The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, The Prelude, Endymion: A Poetic Romance, The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale, Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle, Poetical Works: Tennyson, Orphic Songs, Complete Poems, The Works of G.K. Chesterton

The Battle of Maldon
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
AuthorRudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
The Prelude
AuthorWilliam Wordsworth
This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of "The Prelude" was was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poet's death in 1850. In addition the editors include the two-part...
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
AuthorJohn Keats
ISBN1419117793
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,...
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
AuthorLord Byron
ISBN1425035620
This is such a dark and twisted poem that sees a Byronic hero in his full force. The hero is persecuted and haunted by his actions; he has become less they he once was. He has murdered a man in the name of justice, but he is full regret for such a brutal act. His soul is divided. He is full of melancholy and woe,...
Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle
AuthorThomas Love Peacock
ISBN0140430458
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.

He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling,...
Poetical Works: Tennyson
AuthorAlfred Tennyson
ISBN1853264148
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,...
Orphic Songs
AuthorDino Campana
ISBN0932440177
due anni prima la critica li ha accolti con una sostanziale indifferenza, ma lei li intercetta e ne rimane affascinata. è il 1916, e quel capolavoro dei canti orfici non se li fila nessuno. sibilla aleramo invece ne viene rapita. scrive a dino campana e inizia con lui una fitta corrispondenza epistolare....
Complete Poems
AuthorBasil Bunting
ISBN0811215636
A master of song poems which celebrate—and incarnate—the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of...
The Works of G.K. Chesterton
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN1853264288
Depending on which of the 36 books I was reading, some of them I found to be very cerebral, and encouraging of my religious faith, even though I am not a Catholic. Others of the works were stories- pleasure reading, and I enjoyed them as well.

The biographies were very difficult for me as I had trouble...
A Wave
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0374525471
First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious...
Blake
AuthorPeter Ackroyd
ISBN0345376110
Born in 1757, the son of a London hosier was William Blake -- poet, painter, and engraver -- possessed one of the most original and fertile creative geniuses of his age. Yet his strange aloofness and claims of supernatural visions caused many in his own time and since to doubt his sanity, and much of his...
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
AuthorS. Foster Damon
ISBN0874514363
An invaluable guide for reading William Blake.

"The MUNDANE EGG is this three-dimensional world of time and space, in which fallen Man incubates until he hatches and re-enters Eternity. Man's consciousness has shrunk: the greater part of the four Zoas remain outside his ken. The Egg stretches...
7 Greeks
AuthorGuy Davenport
ISBN0811212882
Here is a colorful variety of works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to later,...
Earthlight
AuthorAndré Breton
ISBN1931243409
Best known in the United States as the mastermind of the Surrealist movement and as the author of the dream-logic fiction Nadja, André Breton has always enjoyed in Europe the additional reputation of being a brilliant poet. Bill Zavatsky’s and Zack Rogow’s excellent translation of Breton’s...
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
AuthorNorthrop Frye
ISBN0802089836
Published in 1947, Fearful Symmetry was Northrop Frye's first book and the product of over a decade of intense labour. Drawing readers into the imaginative world of William Blake, Frye succeeded in making Blake's voice and vision intelligible to the wider public. Distinguished by its range of reference,...
Chanson Dada: Selected Poems
AuthorTristan Tzara
ISBN0976844907
Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Translated as a labor of love over a ten year period the poems encompass the full range of Tzara's works, the results of which have brought Tzara's poetry to life for English language...
Adonais
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN1435316789
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He received his early education at home, tutored by Reverend Evan Edwards of Warnham. In 1802, he entered the Syon House Academy of Brentford....
Speaking in Tongues
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN1892058081
Sometimes I wonder if fairies could really exist among us and if that were the case what sort of wonderful and mysterious tales they could shower us with. Well, if that was indeed the case then I'm 100% Neil Gaiman is more fae than human, or maybe just his mind is. I mean the man spins the most magical and beautiful...
The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille
AuthorGeorges Bataille
ISBN0802313256
This is the first collected English translation of Georges Bataille's poems. Bataille's poetry is definitely the poetry of a philosopher, but it is also a poetry with an obsessively erotic, often scatological edge to it, frequently pushing the boundary of what is or isn't obscene. Bataille believed...
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
AuthorRoy Porter
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven...
Patience dans l'azur
AuthorHubert Reeves
ISBN2020099179
Paul Valéry, étendu sur le sable chaud d’une lagune, regarde le ciel. Dans son champ de vision, des palmiers se balancent mollement, mûrissant leurs fruits. Il est à l’écoute du temps qui sourdement fait son œuvre. Cette écoute, on peut l’appliquer à l’univers. Au fil du temps se déroule...
The Secret Doctrine: Vol 1
AuthorH.P. Blavatsky
ISBN1609421701
I cannot imagine when this woman had time to eat, sleep or pee given the amount of time it must have taken to write this book and all the other books she has written. Albert Einstein was quoted as saying this book inspired him to split the atom. I can see why. I have since moved on to Vol II. Reading this work of...
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