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  • Selected Poems

    by Robert Browning ...
    Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters, and introduced a new immediacy, colloquial energy and psychological complexity to the poetry of his day. This ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • She

    by H. Rider Haggard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'My empire is of the imagination.' These are the words of Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe, whose dread title, 'She-who-must-be-obeyed', testifies to her undying beauty and magical powers; but they serve equally well to describe the hold of her author, Henry Rider Haggard, on generations of readers. Writing 'at white heat', and in the flush of success after the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Six

    The Ring and the Book, Books 7-12

    Edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Joseph Phelan ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868–9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698.Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’, a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five

    The Ring and the Book, Books 1-6

    Edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Joseph Phelan ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868–9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698.Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’, a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    by Edward FitzGerald ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.' In the 'rub--aacute--;iy--aacute--;t' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayy--aacute--;m, Edward FitzGerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Robert Browning: Selected Poems

    Edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Joseph Phelan ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning’s mastery of dramatic verse was evident throughout his career, from such chillingly unforgettable monologues as ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’ to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Robert Browning

    by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin ...
    Series series Studies In Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature Series
    Robert Browning (1812-89) rivals Tennyson as the major Victorian poet with such important works as Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Men and Women, Dramatic Personae and the monumental The Ring and the Book. He is known for his development of the dramatic monologue in which he recreated the world of Renaissance Italy, and provided subtle and complex explorations of character. Here, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Street Songs

    Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925

    by Daniel Karlin ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Stories and Poems

    by Rudyard Kipling ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Hear and attend and listen...' Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the bleakest of fables to the richest of comedies, and he illuminated every aspect of human behaviour, of which he was a fascinated (and sometimes appalled) observer. This generous selection of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Poems of Browning: Volume Three

    1846 - 1861

    Edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Joseph Phelan ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    The Poems of Browningis a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Robert Browning (1812 -1889) resulting from a completely fresh appraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The poems are presented in the order of their composition and in the text in which they were first published, giving a unique insight into the origins and development of Browning's art. Annotations and headnotes, in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Poems of Browning: Volume One

    1826-1840

    Edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet.Volume I, 1826-1840 traces Browning's career up to the writing of Sordello. It includes his only surviving juvenilia: The Dance of Death and The First ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Poems of Browning: Volume Two

    1841-1846

    Edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    The Poems of Browning is the first collected edition to be based on the earliest printed texts, and to present these texts in order of their composition.Together, volumes I and II provide an authoritative and accessible tribute to this great poet.Volume II, 1841-1846 includes Pippa Passes and many of the poems for which Browning is best known and loved: My Last Duchess, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD