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by David Ian Rabey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - Moe
Alistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny;...
by Robert Burns
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg. The Canongate Burns is the most comprehensive and challenging edition of the poems and songs of Robert Burns ever published. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the poet’s own inimitable letters, this definitive edition offers a wealth of information...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including...
by William Wordsworth, Neil Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly...
by Alfred Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break",...
The Victories Of Love
"To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light."
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on July 23rd 1823 at Woodford in Essex. Although he is still relatively unknown his stature as a Victorian Poet continues to increase. After some uneven success at writing poetry in 1846 Coventry came to the post of printed book supernumary assistant at the...
by William Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Prelude or, "Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem" is an autobiographical epic poem by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal and revealing...
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense
Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This new edition collects together...
Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage
In History’s Wings
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates...
by GK Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft...
by John Clare
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out of Essex. Maps of Clare's countryside, his will, and extracts from his asylum letters are also included,...
Bright Star
The authentic life of John Keats
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
On the heels of a renewed global interest in the figure and writing of 19th century British poet John Keats (as attested by Jane Campion’s acclaimed film by the same title), Elido Fazi’s Bright Star retraces the last period of the young poet’s life, as he struggles with financial hardship and...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Illustrated - Blue edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
New edition for kindle with original illustrations based on wood engravings by Gustave Doré, restored, enhanced and coloured in a brilliant deep blue tint. Download the free sample or "look inside" to give it a try. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Illustrated Edition)
The Most Famous Poem of the English literary critic, poet and philosopher, author of Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems, Biographia Literaria, Anima Poetae, Aids to Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Poem relates the experiences...