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10 best books like The Major Works (John Dryden): Jerusalem Delivered, Selected Poems and Fragments, Selected Poetry, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays, The School for Scandal and Other Plays, The Major Works, The Shorter Poems, The Complete English Poems, The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart, The Cid / Cinna / The Theatrical Illusion

Jerusalem Delivered
AuthorTorquato Tasso
ISBN0801863236
Arguably the greatest Italian poet after Dante, Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in 1544 and died in Rome in 1595, having served as the court poet in Ferrara, been confined for years in a madhouse after attacking a servant with a knife, and composed one of the great works of Renaissance literature....
Selected Poems and Fragments
AuthorFriedrich Hölderlin
ISBN0140424164
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology...
Selected Poetry
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0140424563
Goethe viewed the writing of poetry as essentially autobiographical, and the works selected in this volume represent more than sixty years in the life of the poet. In early poems such as 'Prometheus, ' he rails against religion in an almost ecstatic fervor, while 'To the Moon' is an enigmatic meditation...
'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays
AuthorJohn Ford
ISBN0192834495
Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. Setting Ford's earliest surviving independently...
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
AuthorRichard Brinsley Sheridan
ISBN0192825674
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for...
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...
The Shorter Poems
AuthorEdmund Spenser
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...
The Complete English Poems
AuthorGeorge Herbert
ISBN0140424555
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery...
The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart
AuthorSamuel Richardson
ISBN1846645654
Before going onto my review of Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison which took me a month to read, I wanted for myself to make a comment for remembering in the future what I was reading during a difficult time, as I did for my brother's death in 2016, I remember that book clearly. I had...
The Cid / Cinna / The Theatrical Illusion
AuthorPierre Corneille
ISBN0140443126
You can see my general thoughts on Corneille here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

Here are my thoughts on the plays in this volume as I read them:

The Theater of Illusion *** 1/2 – What a wonderful change from Corneille’s tragedies! This is a lively, witty drama...
Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Changeling
AuthorGamini Salgado
ISBN0140430067
This wonderful Penguin Classic: Three Jacobean Tragedies s a gem; The White Devil The Revenger's Tragedy, and the Changeling. By the early seventeenth century Renaissance humanism had reached a crisis.; The period of mental unrest, and the sense of moral corruption and ambiguity that followed,...
The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems
AuthorKālidāsa
ISBN0140455213
Kalidasa was the most accomplished poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature. This collection features his best-known work: the great poem Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), a haunting depiction of longing and separation; the play Sakuntala, which describes the troubled love between...
The Major Works
AuthorAlexander Pope
Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological...
The Complete Poems
AuthorJohn Wilmot
ISBN1599869640
The 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, was an english libertine and close friend of King Charles II. Known as one of the greatest poets of the Restoration, he wrote and published popular satirical and bawdy poetry. This complete collection of his poetry presented in this paperback edition by Filiquarian...
Brief Lives
AuthorJohn Aubrey
ISBN0140435891
Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less...
The Complete Poems
AuthorBen Jonson
ISBN0140422773
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...
Soledades
AuthorLuis de Góngora y Argote
ISBN8437601991
Las Soledades es un poema de Luis de Góngora, compuesto en 1613 en silvas de versos endecasílabos y heptasílabos.

El poema nació como un proyecto dividido en cuatro partes que iban a llamarse «Soledad de los campos», «Soledad de las riberas», «Soledad de las selvas» y «Soledad...
The Complete Poems
AuthorAndrew Marvell
ISBN0140424571
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,...
Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays
AuthorJoseph Addison
ISBN0865974438
"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage."
-Joseph Addison, Cato 1713

Joseph Addison was born in 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England. He was educated in the classics at Oxford and became widely known as an essayist, playwright, poet, and statesman. First...
Arthur Mervyn: Revised Edition
AuthorCharles Brockden Brown
ISBN0873387384
Arthur Mervyn has long puzzled students and scholars with its seeming diffuseness, resulting from its original serial publication. Critics agree, however, that the power of this novel lies not so much in its portrait of "right virtue, " which was Brown's primary aim, as in its realistic descriptions...
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