English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Drama
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; Nicholas Gaskill (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." -- The Wall Street Journal One of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway's ...Show more
A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce
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Category: Classics
A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring ...Show more
Walt Whitman: The Great Poets by Walt. Whitman
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Poets Society, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry of Walt Whitman. One of the greats, he was celebr ...Show more
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today - includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the beautiful early poem Fros ...Show more
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: The Great Poets by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are two of the best-loved poets from the heroic lost generation of the First World War. Brooke's work was well-known befor ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Great Poets by Omar Khayyam
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published - a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment''One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies'The epic, beautiful poem Rubaiyat is widely attributed to Omar Khayyam. As much a philosopher as a poet, he was a Persian ...Show more
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest o ...Show more
Jane Austen: Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma' by Jane Austen
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known'Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet:'I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan't be thinner'This ...Show more
Dubliners (Riverrun Editions) by James Joyce; Patrick McGuinness (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface to Dubliners.Set in the late 19th and early 20th-century, Dubliners is made up of fifteen storie ...Show more
The Little Book of War Poets - The Human Experience of War by Orange Orange Hippo!
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
A fascinating introduction to war poets and their work, from Homer to Alfred Tennyson and Walt Whitman to Siegfried Sassoon, this little book is packed full of intriguing background information and includes moving quotes from letters, poems and other sources.