The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe
10 best books like The Portable Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe (W.H. Auden): The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837, Erotica Romana, The Major Works: Including Astrophil and Stella, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, Immortal Poems of the English Language, Begin Again: Collected Poems, Greek Lyrics, The Portable Blake, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
| Author | Ben Wilson |
| ISBN | 1594201161 |
Ben Wilson's "The Making of Victorian Values" is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those...
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Goethe verfasste sie nach seiner Rückkehr von der Italienischen Reise 1788 bis Ende 1790 und veröffentlichte 1795 zunächst zwanzig davon in Schillers Monatsschrift „Die Horen“. Johann Gottfried Herder sah sich aufgrund der erotischen Freizügigkeit der Gedichte zu der bissigen Bemerkung...
| 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,...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0060540419 |
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...
| Author | Oscar Williams |
| ISBN | 0671496107 |
Immortal Poems
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished...
| Author | Grace Paley |
| ISBN | 0374527245 |
A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of a direct, attentive, and always unpredictable poet. Whether describing...
| Author | Richmond Lattimore |
| ISBN | 0226469441 |
"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the thrilling...
| 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 | Margaret Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0393979210 |
Great anthology, but I’m surprised that there are some key missing poems from famous poets... lots missing from ee cummings but that makes sense because they can’t include ~every~ poem he’s written. I’m surprised they chose “A Blessing” over “Lying on a Hammock at William Duffy’s...
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
| Author | Nancy Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0195061608 |
Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0393927202 |
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...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0679600264 |
I've been wanting to read Jane Austen for a few years now, partly because I want to have some knowledge of her books when I finally get around to watching The Jane Austen Book Club, and partly out of curiosity. The only movie adaptation that I've ever seen is Emma (which I LOVE!).
It took me a good...
| Author | Joy Hakim |
| ISBN | 0195153235 |
How did compliant colonials with strong ties to Europe get the notion to become an independent nation? Perhaps the seeds of liberty were planted in the 1735 historic courtroom battle for the freedom of the press. Or maybe the French and Indian War did it, when colonists were called "Americans" for the...
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
| Author | Eavan Boland |
| ISBN | 0393308227 |
I think I'm going to set Boland aside and read something else for a while. While I thought her poem "The Journey" (not included in this collection) might qualify as an immortal masterwork, I generally prefer the compression and tightly-wound intensity of other feminist poets such as Plath.
"Outside...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0395051401 |
his poetry is of course among the best written so i won't dwell there. i read this in college for a class where we focused on the form and style of particular poets. we read keats, stevens, and and gerard manly hopkins. part of the reading were journal entries and letters of these poets. better than reading...
| Author | Bernard Knox |
| ISBN | 0393034267 |
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0140424296 |
Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0140150943 |
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,”...
| Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| ISBN | 0486282554 |
It has been said that a copy of Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline could be found in every literate household in America in the nineteenth century. Certainly its poignant romance touched many hearts and stirred deepening interest in the Maine-born Harvard educator who, in his lifetime, would...
| Author | J.P. Steed |
| ISBN | 0820457299 |
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...
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| ISBN | 0345376110 |
Born in 1757, the son of a London hosier was William Blake -- poet, painter, and engraver -- possessed one of the most original and fertile creative geniuses of his age. Yet his strange aloofness and claims of supernatural visions caused many in his own time and since to doubt his sanity, and much of his...
| Author | Takako Shigematsu |
| ISBN | 1933617888 |
Synopsis:
Yuzu was afraid she'd be completely on her own after her mother died. However, a sudden meeting with her long-lost grandmother reveals her status as heiress to a wealthy estate... but Yuzu isn't at all sure she wants anything to do with it!
My Thoughts:
When we meet...
Jonah Grey, driven by a lust for the blood of the legendary Chupacabra that murdered the woman who was to be his mate, jumps at the offer to leave the FBI and join Night Seekers, who are dedicated to hunting and killing the devil beast.Then Jonah encounters a woman with whom he shares explosive chemistry...
