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  • Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

    by Anna Letitia Barbauld ...
    At her death in 1825, Anna Letitia Barbauld was considered one of the great writers of her time. Distinguished as a poet and essayist, she was also in innovator in children’s literature, an eloquent supporter of liberal politics, and a literary critic of stature. This edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Delphi Classics)

    by Matthew Arnold, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 21 - Delphi Poets Series
    The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Matthew Arnold, the archetypal sage writer, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Arnold's life and works* Concise introductions to the poetry and other ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A History of Elizabethan Literature

    by George Saintsbury ...
    According to Wikipedia: "George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 - 28 January 1933), was an English writer and critic.... His first book, A Primer of French Literature (1880), and his Short History of French Literature (1882), were followed by a series of editions of French classics and of books and articles on the history of French literature, which made him the most prominent English ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Poets

    A Selection

    by Samuel Johnson, John Mullan ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence

    by Appleton Morgan ...
    M. Guizot, in his History of England, states the Shakespearean problem in a few words, when he says: "Let us finally mention the great comedian, the great tragedian, the great philosopher, the great poet, who was in his lifetime butcher's apprentice, poacher, actor, theatrical manager, and whose name is William Shakespeare. In twenty years, amid the duties of his profession, the care of mounting ... Read more

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  • From Chaucer to Tennyson

    by Henry A. Beers ...
    A fantastic look at the history of English literature from Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century to Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the 19th, taking in 30 authors on the way, including William Shakespeare, John Milton and Alexander Pope. ... Read more

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  • The Book Lovers' Anthology

    by Various ...
    Example in this ebook   One of the most delightful of the Last Essays of Elia is entitled 'Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading', a title which would serve very well to indicate the contents of this anthology. In bringing together into one volume the tributes and opinions of a galaxy of writers, my object has been the glorification of books as books, a book being regarded as a real and separate ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • British Literature 1640-1789

    An Anthology

    by Robert DeMaria Jr. ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies.A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth centuryContains ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • The Spirit of Controversy

    and Other Essays

    by William Hazlitt ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a young man inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty ... Read more

    $2.88 USD

  • Selected Writings

    by Thomas Carlyle ...
    The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's career, and includes 'Sign of the Times', his essay against the mechanization of the age and the rise of the machines; the whole of 'Chartism'; and ... Read more

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  • Advice to a Son

    The Precepts of Lord Burghley, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Francis Osborne

    by Louis B. Wright ...
    "Guides to conduct are common to all ages, for writers never cease to believe that the distillation of their wisdom will in some fashion improve the behavior of youth and provide useful instruction to their elders. The sixteenth century was a particularly didactic age and had more than its share of self-appointed instructors with faith in their missions." So writes Louis B. Wright in his ... Read more

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  • Lives of the English Poets

    by Henry Francis Cary ...
    There is, perhaps, no one among our English writers, who for so great a part of his life has been an object of curiosity to his contemporaries as Johnson. Almost every thing he said or did was thought worthy of being recorded by some one or other of his associates; and the public were for a time willing to listen to all they had to say of him. A mass of information has thus been accumulated, from ... Read more

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