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A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

by Henry Wotton ...

In "A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham," Henry Wotton delivers a poignant eulogy infused with personal insight and political commentary. Written in the early 17th century, this work captures the complexities of court life and the intricacies of aristocratic relationships during the Jacobean era. Wotton employs a reflective and eloquent literary style, ... Read more

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In "A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham," Henry Wotton delivers a poignant eulogy infused with personal insight and political commentary. Written in the early 17th century, this work captures the complexities of court life and the intricacies of aristocratic relationships during the Jacobean era. Wotton employs a reflective and eloquent literary style,
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A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

A Compelling Biography of a Royal Court Intriguer

by Henry Wotton ...

In "A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham," Henry Wotton presents a meticulously crafted biography that blends personal anecdote with political commentary. Written in the early 17th century, Wotton adopts an eloquent yet succinct literary style, reflective of the period's growing fascination with individual biography and the complexities of courtly life. He ... Read more

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In "A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham," Henry Wotton presents a meticulously crafted biography that blends personal anecdote with political commentary. Written in the early 17th century, Wotton adopts an eloquent yet succinct literary style, reflective of the period's growing fascination with individual biography and the complexities of courtly life. He
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Harvard Classics Volume 40

English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray

by Geoffrey Chaucer, Golden Deer Classics, Anonymous, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, George Gascoigne, Edward Dyer, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Henry Constable, Edmund Spenser, William Habington, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Rowlands, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Richard Barnfield, Thomas Campion, Robert Devereux, Henry Wotton, Edward de Vere, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Joshua Sylvester, William Alexander, Richard Corbet, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, William Drummond, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Francis Bacon, James Shirley, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, William D'Avenant, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, William Cartwright, James Graham, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Jordan, Abraham Cowley, Alexander Brome, Andrew Marvell, Earl of Rochester, Charles Sedley, John Dryden, Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts, Lady Grisel Baillie, Joseph Addison, Allan Ramsay, John Gay, Henry Carey, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Colley Cibber, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, George Bubb Dodington ...

Series Book 40 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Harvard Classics Volume 41

English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald

by William Collins, Golden Deer Classics, George Sewell, Alison Rutherford Cockburn, Jane Elliot, Christopher Smart, Anonymous, John Logan, Henry Fielding, Charles Dibdin, Samuel Johnson, Robert Graham of Gartmore, Adam Austin, William Cowper, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Isobel Pagan, Lady Anne Lindsay, Thomas Chatterton, Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, Alexander Ross, John Skinner, Michael Bruce, George Halket, William Hamilton of Bangour, Hector MacNeil, William Jones, Susanna Blamire, Anne Hunter, John Dunlop, Samuel Rogers, William Blake, John Collins, Robert Tannahill, William Wordsworth, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Robert Surtees, Thomas Campbell, J. Campbell, Allan Cunningham, George Gordon, Thomas Moore, Charles Wolfe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Henry Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Hood, Aubrey De Vere, Hartley Coleridge, Joseph Blanco White, George Darley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Hugh Miller, Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin, Charles Tennyson Turner, Samuel Ferguson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Fitzgerald ...

Series Book 41 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Harvard Classics Volume 42

English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Golden Deer Classics, Richard Monckton Milnes, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, J. Wilson, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Robert Stephen Hawker, Coventry Patmore, William (Johnson) Cory, Sydney Dobell, William Allingham, George Mac Donald, Edward, Earl of Lytton, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Alexander Smith, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edward Brown, James Thomson (B. V.), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Morris, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Robert Williams Buchanan, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Bret Harte, Walt Whitman ...

Series Book 42 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Complete Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell (Delphi Classics)

by Andrew Marvell, Delphi Classics ...

Series Book 34 - Delphi Poets Series
Andrew Marvell was a leading metaphysical poet, whose technical genius and scathing wit firmly establish him as a leading literary figure of the seventeenth century. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Marvell’s complete poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. ... Read more

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Andrew Marvell was a leading metaphysical poet, whose technical genius and scathing wit firmly establish him as a leading literary figure of the seventeenth century. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Marvell’s complete poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material.
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The Chronicles Of Froissart

by Froissart Jean ...

Recording all major political events from 1322 to 1400 it is a fascinating and comprehensive account of Anglo-French relations. Written in Froissarts signature style it revives the age of chivalry and presents a vibrant panorama of characters and events. Informative and absorbing! ... Read more

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Recording all major political events from 1322 to 1400 it is a fascinating and comprehensive account of Anglo-French relations. Written in Froissarts signature style it revives the age of chivalry and presents a vibrant panorama of characters and events. Informative and absorbing!
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The Complete Poems of Andrew Marvell

by Andrew Marvell ...

The English metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell is most commonly associated with his contemporaries, John Donne, George Herbert, and his colleague and friend, John Milton. His most famous poem "To His Coy Mistress" is a seductive chant to a would-be lover to seize the moment. "The Garden" is an ode to the tranquility of a retirement from public life. Marvell, who was himself a politician, opines for ... Read more

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The English metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell is most commonly associated with his contemporaries, John Donne, George Herbert, and his colleague and friend, John Milton. His most famous poem "To His Coy Mistress" is a seductive chant to a would-be lover to seize the moment. "The Garden" is an ode to the tranquility of a retirement from public life. Marvell, who was himself a politician, opines for
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Shakespeare's Other Son?

William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner & Restoration Theatre Manager

by R.E. Pritchard ...

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate and ... Read more

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Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate and
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The Comical Pilgrim; or, Travels of a Cynick Philosopher

Thro' the most Wicked Parts of the World, Namely, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland

by Anonymous ...

In "The Comical Pilgrim; or, Travels of a Cynick Philosopher," the Anonymous author delves into a rich tapestry of satire, wit, and philosophical musings, which meld together to offer a critique of contemporary society. The narrative follows a cynical wanderer whose experiences during travels provoke reflections upon human nature, societal norms, and the absurdities of life. Written in a lively ... Read more

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In "The Comical Pilgrim; or, Travels of a Cynick Philosopher," the Anonymous author delves into a rich tapestry of satire, wit, and philosophical musings, which meld together to offer a critique of contemporary society. The narrative follows a cynical wanderer whose experiences during travels provoke reflections upon human nature, societal norms, and the absurdities of life. Written in a lively
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Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland

Enriched edition. Exploring 17th Century Irish Society and Culture

by William Petty, Spencer Delaney ...

In "Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland," William Petty offers a profound examination of the socio-political landscape of 17th-century Ireland. Through a blend of personal narrative and empirical observation, Petty employs a unique analytical style that reflects the burgeoning spirit of scientific inquiry prevalent during the Enlightenment. His reflections encompass a wide range of ... Read more

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In "Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland," William Petty offers a profound examination of the socio-political landscape of 17th-century Ireland. Through a blend of personal narrative and empirical observation, Petty employs a unique analytical style that reflects the burgeoning spirit of scientific inquiry prevalent during the Enlightenment. His reflections encompass a wide range of
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Windsor Forest

by Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. Pope became famous quickly for his use of the heroic couplet and aside from Shakespeare he is the most frequently quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Pope's most famous works are An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad. This edition of Windsor Forest includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. Pope became famous quickly for his use of the heroic couplet and aside from Shakespeare he is the most frequently quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Pope's most famous works are An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad. This edition of Windsor Forest includes a table of contents.
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