The Major Works
10 best books like The Major Works (Samuel Taylor Coleridge): Vampires, Wine, and Roses, The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, The Major Works, The Waste Land and Other Writings, Selected Poetry, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous, The Major Works, The Selected Poems, The Changing Light at Sandover, The Major Works
Vampires, Wine, and Roses
| Author | John Richard Stephens |
| ISBN | 0425157415 |
This is one of my "placeholder" reviews - which means that I have this book on my "to be read" anthology shelf (probably inherited from my sister's holdings, as I'm not a big vampire fan but can't pass up an anthology) but haven't read it yet, but I did just read a story that appears in it (probably online)...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0141000589 |
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...
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| ISBN | 0192840444 |
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent...
| 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 | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 0192834940 |
Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one....
| Author | Catherine M. Andronik |
| ISBN | 0805077839 |
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution
Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.
In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through...
At long last I completed reading Milton’s The Major Works, a tome that I’ve been working on for a month, finding it to be alternately interesting and boring, excellently organized, progressing sequentially through Milton’s shorter poetry, his prose writings - mostly political - , “Paradise...
| Author | A.R. Ammons |
| ISBN | 0393303969 |
I read this collection on the basis of a poem I read upon open the book to a random page...
I said
Mr. Schafer
did you get up to see the comet:
and
he said
Oh no
let it go by, I don't care:
- Dominion (pg. 43)
This poem contains the humour of a poet who once referred...
| Author | James Merrill |
| ISBN | 0307263215 |
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected...
| 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 | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0140150269 |
This has additions. Better collection than other editions on my shelf.
The wild winds weep,
And the night is a-cold;
Come hither, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold! . . .
But lo! the morning peeps
Over the eastern steeps,
And the rustling beds of dawn
The earth do scorn....
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0192840819 |
This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land...
| Author | Robert Browning |
| ISBN | 1551113724 |
An absolutely amazing novel...I mean poem. Nothing short of astonishing--light years ahead of its time. I might be wrong, but I believe his wife, Elizabeth, died shortly before he wrote this. If only we all could convert our sorrow into acts of genius. His Pope is one of the great all time characters--well,...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon
| Author | Elizabeth Russell Miller |
| ISBN | 1605980528 |
When Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897, the ghoulish tale shocked, captivated, offended and thrilled readers. How Stoker became the creator of the mysterious, seductive count from a castle (and coffin) in Transylvania was a story in and of itself. Over the past century, Dracula has never...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032027 |
Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American...
John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. His poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of tones, images, forms, and personae. This collection of Donne's verse...
| 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 | 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,...
The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0192840630 |
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous selection of Keats's letters - to give the...
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0375705406 |
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets.
Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed...
