The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons

10 best books like The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons (John Donne): Possession, Silence, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Metaphors We Live By, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology, The Complete Poems, Salve Deus Rex Judæorum, Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

Possession

Author	A.S. Byatt
ISBN	0679735909

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from...

Silence

Author	Shūsaku Endō
ISBN	0800871863

“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”


Japanese Painting by an unknown artist of the Christian Martyrs of Nagasaki.

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Author

David Foster Wallace

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...

Metaphors We Live By

Author	George Lakoff
ISBN	0226468011

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless...

The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella

Author	Philip Sidney
ISBN	0192840800

This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry and prose--all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.
Born in 1554, Sir Philip Sidney was hailed as the perfect Renaissance patron, soldier,...

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Author

Walter Pater

'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'

The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...

The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology

Author	Kevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN	0192835475

Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer, among other surviving Anglo-Saxon poems are included in this book. But, besides this, chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms are also incorporated in the anthology.

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The Complete Poems

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,...

Salve Deus Rex Judæorum

Author

Aemilia Lanyer

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published...

Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

Author

Nicholas Ostler

Latin was an IE language spoken in a small area in Central Italy in mid-first millennium BCE. It shared certain features with other IE languages of Italy; for example, the proto-IE consonant bh became f: "bhrater" became "frater", similar to how in Cockney English "things" turn into "fings"; the sound...

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Author	Gaston Dorren
ISBN	0802128793

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these...