The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (Classic Reprint)
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07

Total Pages: 1084

ISBN-13: 9780259276593

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Excerpt from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-25

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13:

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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry and remained the leading general anthology of English verse throughout the 20th century. Poets included in the collections are: Geoffrey Chaucer Alexander Pope Christopher Marlowe Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Brontë Robert Browning Robert Burns Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Milton John Ruskin John Keats William Butler Yeats William Makepeace Thackeray William Wordsworth Sir Thomas Wyatt Thomas Love Peacock George Meredith Lord Tennyson John Bunyan John Dryden Sir Walter Scott Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling George MacDonald William Blake James Joyce Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman And many more.

Fixing the Broken Nightingale
Fixing the Broken Nightingale

Author: Richard James Allen

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 9789996542589

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Fixing the Broken Nightingale contains poems of paradox, cynicism, tenderness, outrage and resignation, fleeting lust and enduring love, observation, invention and glimpses of enlightenment written by this widely published and charismatic author, whose earlier books include the critically lauded The Kamikaze Mind (Brandl & Schlesinger) and the NSW Premier's Literary Award-nominated Thursday's Fictions (Five Island Press), and whose previous work also includes multi-award-winning creativity for the screen, the stage and new media platforms."A poet with a subtle, satirical bent, he often renders the mundane (spiders' webs, umbrellas, text messages, taxis) luminous and metaphoric, while interrogating themes of love and loss with poignant artistry...Superb." - William Yeoman, The West Australian"Explosively powerful poetry, vividly, eloquently written and full of short, sharp immediacy."- Lynne Lancaster, Sydney Arts Guide (full review)"The diary of one poet's search for authenticity - a series of quests - this collection needs to be read as a whole. An exceptionally engaging book." - Vivian Smith

The Routledge History of Literature in English
The Routledge History of Literature in English

Author: Ronald Carter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9780415243179

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This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.