The Complete English Poems
10 best books like The Complete English Poems (George Herbert): Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Major Works, The Major Works, The Major Works, The Shorter Poems, The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918, The Riverside Milton, The Complete Poems
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0460876597 |
One of the boldest flavors of Elizabethan English. There's a great point in the Defence where he declares that, poetic laurels being preeminent, Alexander the Great and Darius feuded merely to decide "who would be cock of this world's dung-hill." A poet and theorist, diplomat and courtier, who also...
| Author | John Donne |
| ISBN | 0375757341 |
This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her,"...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759344 |
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
| Author | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 0192825259 |
Although utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith an invitation to question, to think, and to learn; and he devoted his life to confronting and understanding the most elusive aspects of Christianity....
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| ISBN | 0192840428 |
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.
This volume celebrates...
| 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...
Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex...
| Author | Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| ISBN | 0198121075 |
The Oxford Book of English Verse was first published in 1900 and it initiated the famous series of Oxford Books that has been running ever since. It quickly established itself as a classic anthology, equal to Palgrave's Golden Treasury in popularity and public recognition. Having sold half a million...
| 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 | 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 | Bonaventure |
| ISBN | 0809121212 |
This is how I imagine spiritual theology would be if it were written by an on-fire, meditative, deeply orthodox and copiously learned systematic theologian who was also a quantum physicist and complex mathematician who enjoyed contemplating the hypostatic union and the triune interrelationships,...
| 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 | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0192840797 |
This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he...
| Author | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| ISBN | 0140422501 |
This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates...
| Author | Justin Martyr |
| ISBN | 0809104725 |
Justin Martyr (AKA Saint Justin) was a second century Christian leader, teacher, and writer. Only three of his works survive today: the lengthy Dialogue with Trypho and two shorter apologies. This book contains both apologies, written around 156-58 or so and addressed to the emperors Antoninus Pius,...
| Author | Martin Luther |
| ISBN | 0385098766 |
The development of Martin Luther's thought was both a symptom and a moving force in the transformation of the Middle Ages into the modern world.
Geographical discovery, an emerging scientific tradition, and a climate of social change had splintered the unity of medieval Christian culture,...
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
| Author | Peter J. Leithart |
| ISBN | 1885767234 |
Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0393927199 |
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six...
