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Cover of Snake and Other Poems
by D.H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016

Best known as the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) also wrote some of the twentieth century's finest poetry. Lawrence is noted for his use of words in a richly textured manner that produces vivid images and expresses deep emotion. This ample collection...
Cover of The Tower
by W. B. Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift...
Cover of A Selection of Poems
by William Ernest Henley
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015

This early works by William Ernest Henley were originally published in the late 19th and early 20th century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Selection of Poems' is a collection of some the best poetry by Henley, and includes 'Invictus', 'Lady Probationer',...
Cover of The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
by Aldous Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is the second book of poems by Aldous Huxley. It was published in 1918 and includes The Defeat of Youth, Song of Poplars, The Reef, Winter Dream, The Flowers, The Elms, Out of the Window, Inspiration, Summer Stillness, Anniversaries, Italy, The Alien, A Little Memory,...
Cover of A Book Of Golden Deeds
by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.
Cover of Murder in the Cathedral
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature   The Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in...
Cover of First of the Last Chances
by Sophie Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003

Touching and uplifting, this collection of the poems of Sophie Hannah follows traditional rhyming schemes using language that is always realistic and postmodern. Focusing on love and loss, these poems chronicle the different ways that people, for better or for worse, can be significant to one another.
Cover of Snowing Down South

Snowing Down South

Poems by Janet Charman

by Janet Charman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002

This fifth collection of poems by a well-established poet is a vivid and compassionate evocation of ordinary domestic life. Unflinching realism about the situation of women gives her work power. Her handling of language, rhythm, and imagery is sophisticated and skilled. In this collection, the poet...
Cover of Tartuffe

Tartuffe

Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

by Molière
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Cover of Nero
by Stephen Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

Nero Stephen Phillips, english poet and dramatist (1864-1915) This ebook presents «Nero», from Stephen Phillips. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- CHARACTERS -03- ACT I. NERO -04- ACT II. NERO -05- ACT III. NERO -06- ACT IV. NERO
Cover of Feminine Gospels
by Carol Ann Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories...
Cover of The Collected Poems of Edward M Robertson
by Edward Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013

A collection of poems composed by the late Edward Robertson. Spanning a period of some 40 years the imagery and emotions expressed will be familiar to some, create new insights for others and hopefully provide pleasure to all who read them. This posthumous work has been compiled by his family as a...
Cover of The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000

This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are: King John Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Richard III Henry...
Cover of The Complete Poems of Andrew Marvell
by Andrew Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The English metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell is most commonly associated with his contemporaries, John Donne, George Herbert, and his colleague and friend, John Milton. His most famous poem "To His Coy Mistress" is a seductive chant to a would-be lover to seize the moment. "The Garden" is an ode to the...
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