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10 best books like The Portable Blake (William Blake): The Major Works, One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition, Report from Planet Midnight, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Collected Lyrics, Gothic, Selected Poems 1957-1994, The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0192840436
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English...
One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
AuthorPaul Verlaine
ISBN0226853454
French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to transform into timeless verse the essence of...
Report from Planet Midnight
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN1604864974
Infused with feminist, Afro-Caribbean views of the science fiction and fantasy genres, this collection of offbeat and highly original works takes aim at race and racism in literature. In “Report from Planet Midnight,” at the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, an alien addresses...
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 Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0060540419
Bloom’s stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language



A notable feature of Harold Bloom’s poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers...
Collected Lyrics
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN0060908637
Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923, and when she published one of her collections, "Huntsman, What Quarry " it made the bestseller list. Can you imagine a book of poetry on the bestseller list today? I have always loved her poetry and it was fun to reread the old favorites and discover some...
Gothic
AuthorFred Botting
ISBN0415092191
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide:
* Explains the transformations of the genre through history
* Outlines all...
Selected Poems 1957-1994
AuthorTed Hughes
ISBN0374528640
Poems from every phase of the career of a great poet

This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and its successor, Lupercal, which introduced...
The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0140150528
This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
AuthorGary Lachman
ISBN0971394237
How did a decade of love and peace end in Altamont and the Manson Family bloodbath? Gary Lachman explores the sinister dalliance of rock’s high rollers and a new wave of occultists, tying together John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Mick Jagger, Brian Wilson, Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, Jim Morrison, L....
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
AuthorFaubion Bowers
ISBN0486292746
Haiku should be just
small stones dropping down a well
with a small splash
- James Kirkup (8)
Haiku or the complexity of subtlety
As a big fan of etymology, I was captivated by this book's introduction. It is a clear and detailed recount of the history of haiku. The present enthralling...
The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne
AuthorAlgernon Charles Swinburne
ISBN1853264431
I think there is a reason why I never read more Swinburne poetry than I did while in college and getting my Master’s. It’s not the poetry is bad. It isn’t, but if you compare it to the Brownings, to Donne, to Marlowe, to Chaucer, and so on, it doesn’t quite match them.
Well, most of his poetry...
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years
AuthorPhilip Rowland
ISBN0393348873
Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking world. This collection tells the story for...
Catcher in the Rye: New Essays
AuthorJ.P. Steed
ISBN0820457299
J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging from the examination of the intertextual relationship...
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
AuthorS. Foster Damon
ISBN0874514363
An invaluable guide for reading William Blake.

"The MUNDANE EGG is this three-dimensional world of time and space, in which fallen Man incubates until he hatches and re-enters Eternity. Man's consciousness has shrunk: the greater part of the four Zoas remain outside his ken. The Egg stretches...
The Aquarian Conspiracy
AuthorMarilyn Ferguson
ISBN0874774586
This book was published in the early 1980s. It claimed that there was a grass roots movement that was going to change society in what I would call a very new agey liberal type way but on the other hand a few times in this book it hails "captains of industry and finance, foundation officials and university...
Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
ISBN1935234102
In Whedonistas, a host of award-winning female writers and fans come together to celebrate the works of Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog). By discussing the impact of Whedon's work, their involvement with his shows' fandoms and...
The New Encyclopedia of the Occult
AuthorJohn Michael Greer
ISBN1567183360
From "Aarab Zereq" to "Zos Kia Cultus," this is the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the history, philosophies, and personalities of Western occultism.

Written by an occult scholar and practitioner with the assistance of hundreds of experts in the field, this volume presents the...
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
AuthorWhitley Strieber
ISBN1101982322
Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally
understood.

Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton...
The Official xxxHOLiC Guide
AuthorCLAMP
ISBN0345510003
Join Yuko Kimihiro Domeki and all your favorite characters on a journey deep inside the thrilling world of xxxHOLiC! Learn more about the folklore behind the story and the various connections to the other works in the CLAMP universe. Filled with fascinating story details creator interviews fashion...
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
AuthorNorthrop Frye
ISBN0802089836
Published in 1947, Fearful Symmetry was Northrop Frye's first book and the product of over a decade of intense labour. Drawing readers into the imaginative world of William Blake, Frye succeeded in making Blake's voice and vision intelligible to the wider public. Distinguished by its range of reference,...
History of Magic and the Occult
AuthorKurt Seligmann
ISBN0517150328
From the demons of Mesopotamia to those plaguing our own late-20th-century civilization, this comprehensive primer covers every aspect of magic and the occult since earliest recorded time. Spanning 5,000 years of world history it covers every major civilization and includes sections on alchemy,...
Portable Darkness: An Aleister Crowley Reader
AuthorAleister Crowley
ISBN0971457875
While many of the details of Aleister Crowley's flamboyant life have been well documented, Portable Darkness is the first book to tackle the formidable task of collecting the best of his voluminous lifework.  In bringing together Crowley's best writings, editor Scott Michaelsen makes Crowleyan...
Read Japanese Today
AuthorLen Welsh
ISBN0804804966
Japanese characters, called kanji, often intimidate potential students of the language with their complex and mysterious appearance. Read Japanese Today is a comprehensible and storylike approach to an often difficult language. Intended for people on the go, this book will teach you to recognize...
Introducing Critical Theory
AuthorStuart Sim
ISBN1840465883
Of all the books in the Graphic Guide series, this is perhaps the worst; not because of its subject matter (which is immensely interesting), but because of its structure (or lack thereof).

Normally these books assume you don't know anything about the subject except, perhaps, for a few ideas...
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