 | The Great Poets John Keats
Publication Date: December 1, 2007| Series: Great Poets Long overshadowed by Jane Eyre, Villette is widely admired as one of Charlotte Brontës finest works. This story of a young teacher at a girls school in the city of Villette is a particular challenge for the young reader for it requires maturity of vision, a fine narrative senseand a command of French! Mandy Weston, a newcomer to Naxos AudioBooks, tells the story magnificently. ...
 |  | Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Sawtooth Poetry Prize Series 2005)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Poetry. This book, winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, takes flight from Plato's Theaetetus, in which Socrates tells us that the mind works as an aviary--particles of knowledge fly around like birds, and the thinker plucks them down to use when he or she sees fit. The bird becomes a metaphor for the action of the mind folding and unfolding into explosions and navigational patterns of flight. Lyrical and thought-provoking, it is a masterful debut. "Kelsey writes what it is to know, of 'what we become/ when the universe is seen in lights of its generation.' We...
|  | The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1: The Holy Sonnets
Release Date: December 1, 2005| Series: The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (Book 7) Praise for previous volumes:"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." —ChroniqueThis is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the sc...
|  | Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur
Publication Date: May 1986Describing one of the most liberating concepts to emerge in business, the author tells the budding entrepreneur how to choose an idea, how to get it approved, where to find the necessary funds, and how to make the project succeed. ...
|  | Death of King Arthur
Publication Date: January 1, 2012"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of "Sir Gawa...
|  | "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
Publication Date: November 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0374528691 | ISBN-13: 978-0374528690| Edition: 1st Hail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life awayUnknown nor heeded, where low genius triesAbove the vulgar and the vain to rise.--from "Helpstone""I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers fortwo centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childho...
|  | The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Oxford Handbooks)
Publication Date: September 30, 2011| Series: Oxford Handbooks Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Miltonis a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in recent times, a consequence in great part of the increasingly fluid relatio...
|  | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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|  | The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe: Volume II (Vol 2) (Oxford English Texts)
Publication Date: May 20, 1999| ISBN-10: 0198182996 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182993This volume completes the first edition of the collected works of the early modern poet and translator Sir Richard Fanshawe, and contains Fanshawe's translation of The Lusiad of Camoes, the single work which affirms his importance in the history of translation. The translation of the Baroque play Querer por solo Querer from the court of Philip IV of Spain is also given, as is Fanshawe's Latin rendering of parts of The Lusiad, printed here for the first time. ...
|  | Edward Young: Night Thoughts
Publication Date: July 31, 2008| ISBN-10: 052106967X | ISBN-13: 978-0521069670| Edition: 1 During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This edition contains a critical introduction setting the poem in the context of the eighteenth-century sublime. There is a commentary which explains historical and linguistic obscurities, and a history of the poem's publication. The text is based on the ...
|  | Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Publication Date: January 2003This landmark edition of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion provides the first full-size reproduction of the Huntington Library's copy of the work, printed and colored by Blake and his wife, Catherine, in 1793. Generally seen as a continuation of The Book of Thel, this relatively early work of Blake's offers a criticism of the sexual morals of his time, presenting its author's views on the evils of organized religion, on slavery, and on oppressed womanhood. Drawings related to Visions that Blake sketched in his Notebook, now held in the British L...
|  | Clare Poems Mid Age V4 Oetcl C (John Clare Poems Mid Per Ser O) (Vol 4)
Publication Date: April 16, 1998| Series: John Clare Poems Mid Per Ser O These volumes represent the third and fourth of five volumes devoted to Clare's 'middle period', between 1822 and 1837. Poems range from satirical and political verse in 'The Summons' and 'The Hue & Cry', to an expression of his philosophy of nature in 'The Eternity of Nature', and astatement of Clare's poetic objectives in 'To the Rural Muse'. ...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: November 26, 1993| ISBN-10: 0521423090 | ISBN-13: 978-0521423090English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century, an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This introductory Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, provides individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell, together with general essays on the political, social and religi...
|  | The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence
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|  | Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw (The Norton Library Seventeenth-Century Series, N728)
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|  | The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publication Date: November 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521028671 | ISBN-13: 978-0521028677| Edition: 1 The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important and original reevaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature.Starting with Butler's outrageous burlesque, Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes the origins of Augustan satire and its momentous departure from the religious and social writing of an earlier era. He goes on to explain the creation, from the ruins of satire, of a new poetry of nature and everyday life (emerging most significantly in the work of Pope and T...
|  | The Hunting of the Snark (Graphic Novel)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Graphic Novel The Hunting of the Snark,Lewis Carroll’s classic masterpiece of nonsense verse, takes the readeron a wonderfully witty and inventive hunt for the ever-elusive Snark.The tantalizing mysteries of the poem are here perfectly matched inthese brilliant new illustrations by artist Mahendra Singh, who hascreated a visual treasure hunt, full of riddles, puns, and allusions. When asked what his poem meant, Carroll would always reply that he didnot know. But, on one occasion, he did write to friends that perhaps“…the who...
|  | New Selected Poems
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 184777167X | ISBN-13: 978-1847771674Spanning four decades of poetry, this indispensable collection features the work of Australia’s Les Murray. Endlessly inventive, these poems celebrate the world and the power of the imagination while clearly expressing the poet’s devotion to place, politics, and the significance of the Australian landscape. ...
|  | Oral Traditions as Philosophy: Okot p'Bitek's Legacy for African Philosophy
Publication Date: May 2002| ISBN-10: 084769772X | ISBN-13: 978-0847697724Oral Traditions as Philosophy is a study of the Ugandan poet and cultural critic Okot p'Bitek. In his poems and critical essays, Okot engages with the oral traditions of his people--the songs, dances, funeral dirges, and so forth--seeing them as manifestations of the people's philosophy of life. Imbo's book makes explicit the philosophical questions raised in Okot's work and places them within the wider picture of contemporary African philosophy. ...
|  | The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: February 29, 2012| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde's poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. Includes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful indictment of the degradation and inhumanity of prison life; "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "The Harlot's House," and 20 others. ...
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