The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
10 best books like The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (Alexander Pope): The Necessary Shakespeare, Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings, Seeing Things: Poems, Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics, Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Orlando Furioso: Part Two, Selected Poems, The Shorter Poems, Selected Poems, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0321272501 |
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist...
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0460876597 |
One of the boldest flavors of Elizabethan English. There's a great point in the Defence where he declares that, poetic laurels being preeminent, Alexander the Great and Darius feuded merely to decide "who would be cock of this world's dung-hill." A poet and theorist, diplomat and courtier, who also...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374523894 |
Seamus Heaney (born April 13, 1939) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, four years after the publication of this book, Seeing Things. The Nobel committee described his works as “those of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” He was a...
| Author | Francesco Petrarca |
| ISBN | 0674663489 |
For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful...
| Author | Elise Paschen |
| ISBN | 1570717206 |
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,...
One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty...
Among other things, I have John Keats to thank for bringing a bit of light to an otherwise hideously monotonous English A-level course. My new favourite word is also courtesy of Keats (synaesthesia - go on, say it out loud, you know you want to) as well as a very insightful introduction into second-generation...
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 | Robert Burns |
| ISBN | 0140423826 |
My review is on "Selected Poems" by Robert Burns (I noticed the description stated Frost but my ISBN matched their image of the book; my cover is different as it shows Robert Burns as painted by Alexander Nasmyth). I had picked up this book while visiting Scotland several years back and it was a good read...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0684868741 |
"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to this enchanting and much-needed anthology of...
| Author | Duncan Wu |
| ISBN | 0631222693 |
The second edition of Romanticism: An Anthology is widely regarded as the most comprehensive collection available of poetry and prose by the British Romantics. This magnificent Anthology is now available as a package with David Miall and Duncan Wu's revolutionary Romanticism: The CD-ROM. Both...
| Author | Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| ISBN | 0140422501 |
This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's metrical skills and brought him celebrity. POEMS AND BALLADS brought him notoriety and demonstrates...
| Author | Daphne Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1887128654 |
I'd like to list the pieces within this amazing collection by Daphne Gottlieb which, in my experience, mind and heart, felt strikingly resonant. I love the form and ferosity of her words. Here are some of the poems which, as I was reading them, felt as though they were being branded into my skin.
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Doveglion: Collected Poems
| Author | Jose Garcia Villa |
| ISBN | 0143105353 |
The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villa's collected poetry
Known as the "Pope of Greenwich Village," José Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams,...
Fruit d'une alliance barbare et d'un grand amour déçu, Ludovic, enfant haï par sa trop jeune mère - Nicole et ses grands-parents, vit ses premières années caché dans un grenier. La situation ne s'arrange guère après le mariage de Nicole avec Micho, brave et riche mécanicien qui cherche à...
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| ISBN | 1428604170 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 1843911019 |
In this collection of poems, among his very best, Chaucer showcases his lyrical skills to perfection. Verging from tragic to comic, the overriding theme of the poetry is love, in its many guises. Chaucer tells of his passion for reading, which allows him to eavesdrop on a "parliament of birds" on St Valentine’s...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0451628268 |
These three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet show why Milton takes his place beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Vergil. They ring with the unmistakable clarity of genius, with majesty of language, splendor and wealth of detail, and with the deep conviction of a powerful mind....
| Author | Janet Frame |
| ISBN | 0747531897 |
it is really too bad that janet frame is so little known outside of New Zealand. although some may know of her from the film based on her life, An Angel at My Table, by the marvelous director Jane Campion. the writing in this collection of sad, strange stories is at times spiky and sharp, and other times gently...
The Emancipation Proclamation is a moving and thought provoking document. It demonstrates a President's conviction to create change for the better good of all people in spite of the opposition of the times. During the Civil Rights movement of the 60's President Lyndon Johnson reminded us...
The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Vol I and II
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 9780760792 |
To-morrow.--Amy Foster.--Youth: A narrative.--Heart of darkness.--The end of the tether.--Karain: A memory.--The idiots.--An outpost of progress.--The return.--The lagoon.--Gaspar Ruiz.--The informer.--The brute.--An anarchist.--The duel.--Il conde.--A smile of fortune.--The secret...
| Author | Agha Shahid Ali |
| ISBN | 0393068048 |
Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time.
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| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0192840541 |
Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In addition to Dorian Gray,...
