George Gordon Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $2.51
To the nineteenth century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) was the archetype of the romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure ... more.
William Blake Random House, Inc Retail Price: $12.50
In his prophetic books, William Blake (1757-1827) was a visionary who can be compared without blasphemy to the prophets of the Old Testament. In his life as a citizen of London, he was an unreconstructed revolutionary of the human spirit. A ... more.
Victor Hugo, Brooks Haxton Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
For most of his life, Victor Hugo was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was kno ... more.
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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes ... more.
Paul Dunbar Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Paul Laurence Dunbar was 'the most promising young colored man' in nineteenth-century America, according to Frederick Douglass, and subsequently became one of the most controversial. His plantation lyrics, written ... more.
William Blake Calif Princeton Fulfilment Retail Price: $39.95 Sale Price: $29.99 You Save: $9.96
(PUBPrinceton University Press)William Blake, the 18th-century British romantic poet, wrote some of the finest children's verse of all time (e.g., ''Little Lamb Who Made ... more.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Penguin Classics Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
A collection that restores Longfellow's reputation as an important and influential American poet. The most popular poet of his day, Longfellow has, unfortunately been discredited by posterity. This generous sampling of ... more.
John Donne Random House, Inc Retail Price: $24.00 Sale Price: $16.49 You Save: $7.51
This edition, compiled and introduced by C.A. Patrides, is recognized as the most complete and scholarly one volume collection of the poetical works of John Donne. In it; his lyrics, his satires, his anthems to the body and the soul, his erot ... more.
Homer Random House, Inc Retail Price: $24.00 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $6.01
The Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. Fitzgerald's much-honored translatio ... more.
A. T. Hatto Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $5.51
This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the tw ... more.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Random House, Inc Retail Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $10.45 You Save: $4.5
These love poems have long been considered the finest ever written by a woman in the English language, and their literary excellence is surpassed only by the sonnets of Shakespeare. F ... more.
William Shakespeare Random House, Inc Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of non-dramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the posit ... more.
David Wright Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here--'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner,' 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan'--as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are a ... more.
Edmund Spenser Penguin Classics Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $13.49 You Save: $6.51
It was the first epic in English and established the possiblities of heroic poetry in the English tradition. Milton called Spenser a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, and the rythmical music and rhetorical control of The Fae ... more.
John Donne Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet - and even, many feel, the ... more.
William Blake Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
The personal issues with which he wrestled seemed to him to be also the salient problems of human life. They include questions of the proper place of intellectual control in the personality, the place of impulse, the relations betw ... more.
Ben Johnson, George Parfitt, Ben Jonson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urban elegance of his he contrived a directness, and energy of ... more.
Edited by J.A. Burrow Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the latter p ... more.
Robert Burns Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $4.01
This important new selection of the poems and songs of Robert Burns presents the texts arranged in probably order of composition and uses where possible thier first published form. It thus gives modern readers a flavour of what it must ... more.
Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
During the great seige of Troy, Troilus, The son of Priam, sees Criseyde and falls in love with her. Later, with the help of Pandarus - one of the first great character studies in our literature - Troilus win ... more.
Geoffrey Chaucer Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
The tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is one of the greatest narrative poems in English literature. Set during the siege of Troy, it tells how the young knight Troilus, son of King Priam, falls in love with Criseyde, a beautif ... more.
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling compet ... more.
In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also ... more.
George Herbert Penguin Classics Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $10.49 You Save: $6.51
George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments ty ... more.
N. K. Sandars Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Comparable with the Book of Genesis, it opens in watery chaos and sings of the foundations of the world and its centre, the fabulous golden city of Babylon. A hymn of praise in celebration of Marduk, ... more.
William Shakespeare Random House, Inc Retail Price: $13.50 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $2.51
Shakespeare's superb narrative poems and sonnets give us the most direct conncection we possess to the movements of reflection and emotion in our greatest writer. In themselves, they are essential to our legacy as think ... more.
John Milton Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
Although he wrote Comus and ''Lycids' shortly after leaving Cambridge, Milton devoted much of his adult life - and even sacrificed his eyesight - to defending the cause of Cromwell's Commonwealth. His later poetry, produced after Ch ... more.
William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.96
The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, The Prelude takes place as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind.' In its search for the origins of the adult persona ... more.
Edited by Michael Alexander Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf marks the beginning of the English literature. Eighth-century in origin, composed to be recited aloud, it told its Anglo-Saxon listeners a story of their Scandinavian ancestors ... more.
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'Her ardour and abundance, her brilliant descriptive powers, her shrewd and caustic humour infect us with her own enthusiasm' wrote Virginia Woolf of Aurora Leigh in 1931. 'We laugh, we protest, we complain-it is absurd, it i ... more.
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