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10 best books like The Complete Poems and Major Prose (John Milton): The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, Piers Plowman, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Metaphysical Poets, A Preface to Paradise Lost, Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso, Critical Theory Since Plato, The Major Works, Collected Poetry & Prose

The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0141000589
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare.

Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized...
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN0375757341

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,"...
Piers Plowman
AuthorWilliam Langland
ISBN0393975592
Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot...
The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
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...
The Metaphysical Poets
AuthorHelen Gardner
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'....
A Preface to Paradise Lost
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0195003454
Brilliant. Don't let the title fool you! It's about way more than Paradise Lost. Lewis traces the expectations behind Paradise Lost by looking at Homer and Virgil and Beowulf. C.S. Lewis knew why he loved books. Makes me want to read Milton.

His defense of Milton's Style had this fine gem, worth...
Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso
AuthorCharles Williams
ISBN0802815782
"Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars" are two collections of poems written by Charles Williams and based on the Arthurian legend. They are written from the perspective of Taliessin, the court poet of Camelot, and chronicle the history of the fabled kingdom. Being written...
Critical Theory Since Plato
AuthorHazard Adams
ISBN0155055046
CRITICAL THEORY SINCE PLATO is a chronologically-arranged anthology that presents a broad survey of the history and development of literary criticism and theory in Western culture. Written by two well-known scholars in the field of literary study, this well-respected text puts an emphasis on the...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0192840428
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...
Collected Poetry & Prose
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN1883011450
The Library of America is not a cheap publishing house, but their editions are worth every penny you pay for them.
Stevens is an incredibly enigmatic poet you'll spend hours trying to figure out. Sometimes you'll crack his works, sometimes you won't, sometimes you will and you won't like what you...
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1846142482
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.

'Love bade me welcome . . .'

'Teach me my God and King . . .'


George...
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0393962997
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...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
AuthorCleanth Brooks
ISBN0156957051
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
A Defence of Poetry
AuthorPhilip Sidney
ISBN0199110220
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:

"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
AuthorSteven E. Ozment
ISBN0300027605
“Ozment’s masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period 1250-1550 clarifies the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. Its appeal derives from its breadth of scholarship and clarity of style.  Ozment reviews the current state of research on late...
Persecution and the Art of Writing
AuthorLeo Strauss
ISBN0226777111
It's easy to understand the influence of Hayek or Milton Friedman, but Leo Strauss is an entirely more perplexing case. What is it about this Spinoza expert and painstaking scholar of medieval philosophy that makes him an intellectual godfather to the modern GOP?

Let's try asking Peter Thiel...
Office Of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
AuthorScott F. Crider
ISBN1932236457
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student,...
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0743227980
Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle...
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393927202
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...
Complete Poems
AuthorChristina Rossetti
ISBN0140423664
Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and sonnets, and the vast body of her devotional poetry....
Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0312257066
“Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor.” It didn't take me long while reading Helen Vendler's introduction to poetry to remember this quote from Wallace Stevens, as so much of the best poetry deals with the flouting of conventions and the subverting of cliches. Perhaps the formulaic...
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