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“sir christopher ricks”

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  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    by Laurence Sterne, Sir Christopher Ricks ...
    'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • John Donne: Collected Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
    'Tennyson', wrote T. S. Eliot, 'has the finest ear of any English poet since Milton,' and his verse remains unrivalled in its combination of verbal richness, emotional depth and intellectual engagement. Tennyson drew on classical and medieval legends in poems like 'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) and 'The Lady of Shalott' (1832) to explore the spiritual tensions of the nineteenth century. In one of the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Best-Loved Poems

    by John Boyes ...
    ... poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.' Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis glorious celebration of classic poetry features verse from around the English-speaking world. Carefully selected and divided into themed sections, the poems encompass the wealth of human experience - love, death, youth, old age, nature, travel and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Bright Star

    The Complete Poems and Selected Letters

    by John Keats ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Wales, A Nation In Verse

    by Dylan Thomas, George Herbert, Ann Griffiths, Wilfred Owen ...
    Series Book 5 - A Nation In Verse
    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 a particular nation through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide. Wales, this proud nation with its long history; ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

    by John Keats ...
    'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    An outstanding collection of his best-loved poems

    by Lord Alfred Tennyson ...
    Series series The Great Poets
    Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'His genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems. Some of his words were engraved in the 2012 Olympic village and his early poetry was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • In Memoriam A.H.H. (Mobi Classics)

    by Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
    In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, but it is also much more. Written over a period of 17 years, it can be seen as reflective of Victorian society at the time, and the poem discusses many of the issues that ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of English Verse

    by P J Keegan ...
    This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet. ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Works Of John Keats: (100+ Works), Including Endymion, Isabella, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Lamia And Other Poems, Odes, Songs And Letters (Mobi Collected Works)

    by John Keats ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

    by Jonathan Wordsworth ...
    The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less ... Read more

    $21.29 USD