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The Merry Muses of Caledonia is among Burns' best known, but least read, work. This collection of bawdy poems, some written by and some collected by Burns, ranges from celebrations of spirited women in Ellibanks, to misogyny in There was twa wives and male fantasy in Nine Inch will please a lady....

Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and...

An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion that...

A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel. Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet...

Free audiobook link + Interactive table of contents Richard III is a drama in five acts by William Shakespeare. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England, and is believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is sometimes classified...

Published to mark the 40th anniversary of his death, this comprehensive edition of the poetry of Mervyn Peake includes pieces that touch on some of the most significant historical moments of the 20th century. His celebrated works range from the unemployment epidemic in pre-war Britain to the horrors...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS CHAPTER I Ballad Characteristics CHAPTER II Ballad Growth and Ballad History CHAPTER III Ballad Structure and Ballad Style CHAPTER IV The Mythological Ballad CHAPTER V The Romantic Ballad CHAPTER VI The Historical Ballad CHAPTER VII Conclusion

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Poetry (The Classic Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth,...

2 works of Edwin Waugh English poet (1817-1890) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Edwin Waugh. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine - Th' Barrel Organ

Physical & Emitonal Expressional Poem To Express My Trauma With Marks & Sharks, Expressing Mid Carpal Instability, & Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, & Complex Trauma. PANTS POEMS: He Drinks Because His Life Stinks He Stinks Because He's Too Depressed To Get Dressed He Sleeps In Pain And Awakes In Pain

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean...

Sujata Bhatt's first book of poems, the award-winning Brunizem, appeared in 1988. Her poems deal with issues about her native India and her native tongue (Gujarati), America and Britain, and Germany where she now lives. Language, politics and gender, place and history are key themes that emerge in...

Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.