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by William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 1977
The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The...
by Christopher Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Christopher Meredith’s Air Histories starts in the Stone Age and ends in the future. It’s marked by formal diversity and a wide range of subjects, with the personal alongside the impersonal and the experimental alongside well-known forms, including some translations from the Welsh. Throughout,...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
From one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for his Odes, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Fanny, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia, Hyperion and more
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Divided into five stanzas of ten lines each, the ode contains a narrator's discourse on a series of designs on a Grecian urn. The poem focuses on two scenes: one in which a lover eternally pursues a beloved without fulfilment, and another of villagers about to perform a sacrifice. John Keats (1795...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Shakespeare. Indeed, his genius is questioned only by those who doubt the authenticity of his authorship of...
Who Was Shakespeare?
Writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who he was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays.
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This volume, number 2 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains several fascinating writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who William Shakespeare was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays. Included are:...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
The first full critical edition of Marlowe's highly controversial Edward II for twenty-five years, Richard Rowland's scholarly edition presents an old-spelling text which adheres more closely to the first...
Tradition Digitized
Ancient Poems Flowing in Modern Streams
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
50 classic poems reflowing in a modern medium. Originally published in black ink on white paper, 16 traditional poets have now been rendered digitally for e-readers.
Poetry is the oldest and most flexible art form, and has migrated from performances to papyrus rolls to printed pages. Far from...
by William Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems Volume I William Wordsworth, major English Romantic poet (1770-1850)
This ebook presents «Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems Volume I», from William Wordsworth. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism -- an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems...
Women In Love: Heroines In Verse: Everyman Poetry
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This unique anthology presents depictions of female figures in a wide range of English verse - narrative, dramatic and lyric, original and translated - from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the variety of women's reactions to the passion of love - whether joyful,...
by Patrick Branwell Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Patrick Branwell Brontë was born on June 26th. 1817. He was part of Englands greatest literary family together with his sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Jane. However that perhaps was to prove also his greatest misfortune. Although he was the first to be published as a poet in the 1840s he could make...
by William Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 18th century and early 19th century English lyricist William Wordsworth was one of the most prominent poets of the Romantic era. His first work “Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems” was penned with Coleridge, though most of the volume is by Wordsworth,...
by Nick Laird
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
**Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize
“Nick Laird’s dazzling poems arrive with a kind of revolutionary candor; a truth-telling that’s political, existential, and above all, emotional.… Feel Free is essential poetry.”—Terrance Hayes**
Feel Free, the fourth collection...
by John Wilmot
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and the words of those who loved or loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with a startling, ribald, and riotous clarity.