Algernon Charles Swinburne: 70 books

This 1886 collection of critical and historical essays by the trailblazing English poet includes “Short Notes on English Poets,” “A Century of English Poetry,” “Congreve,” “Collins,” “Wordsworth and Byron,” “Emily Brontë,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” “Keats,” and others—these essays contain strength as well as ironic humor.

In the year 1827, there died, after a long dim life of labour, a man as worthy of remark and regret as any then famous. In his time he had little enough of recognition or regard from the world; and now that here and there one man and another begin to observe that after all this one was perhaps better...

Sunshine Factory Isabella Macdonald Alden, american author, writing under the pseudonym of Pansy (1841-1930) This ebook presents «Sunshine Factory», from Isabella Macdonald Alden. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

The book begins with a chapter on Marlowe: "The first great English poet was the father of English tragedy and the creator of English blank verse. Chaucer and Spenser were great writers and great men: they shared between them every gift which goes to the making of a poet except the one which alone...

The greatest poet of our age has drawn a parallel of elaborate eloquence between Shakespeare and the sea; and the likeness holds good in many points of less significance than those which have been set down by the master-hand. For two hundred years at least have students of every kind put forth in every...

This book-collection file includes: The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Bacon is Shake-speare by Durning-Lawrence, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Rudd, Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain,...