Visions of the Daughters of Albion
8 best books like Visions of the Daughters of Albion (William Blake): Caleb Williams, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Ode to the West Wind, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream, The Jolly Corner, A Defence of Poetry, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Ode to a Nightingale
| Author | William Godwin |
| ISBN | 0141441232 |
When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| ISBN | 0486223051 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 0946497079 |
Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2
I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu,...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 1419167936 |
The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he explores the empty New York house where he grew up. He encounters a "sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity." The Jolly Corner is the...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 1430482842 |
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth 6 June, 1982
Read for AP English. I rather like Wordsworth, even though I'm not a huge poetry fan.
Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume II, which I have kept
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31 March, 2017
Reread today...
Beautiful. Keats addresses the tragedy of life, where men are resigned to " sit and hear each other groan...where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies". But he juxtaposes this with the nightingale, his "immortal bird", whose song echoes through the ages being heard by the high and mighty and...
