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"an absolutely fascinating selection - notable for its women poets, its intriguing thematic categories, and its helpful mini biographies" - Richard Holmes The Romanticism that emerged after the American and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...

A fresh selection of Wordsworth's poetry from the poet's biographer. One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

The culmination of a life, this collection of poetry is an examination of the self, and the growth of a man First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the respected Literature in Perspective series, this concise critical study...

The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Romances which includes: "Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen constructed Pride and Prejudice, with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the...

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...

Conventional criticism discusses Wordsworth's poetry in terms of what his writing might have meant then, around 1800. Antony Easthope writes about how we can read that poetry now, nearly 200...

Dear Reader, these poems are an introduction to the passionate words of some of the English language's most renowned poets. Inspired by today's greatest lyricist, Taylor Swift, this collection overflows...

Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...

'The Winter's Tale', one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the heart of the Romantic movement stands William Wordsworth's The Prelude,...

A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work presents a meticulous critical study of William Wordsworth's poignant poem, The Ruined Cottage. It uncovers...

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'As You Like It' is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful...

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy,...

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See the kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws and darts; With a tiger-leap half way Now she meets her coming prey. Lets it go as fast and then Has...

Against the background of major changes, in society, politics, education and literature the author charts the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge and traces the growth of their ideas. It...

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA towering monument of world literature, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare gathers every play, sonnet, and poem produced by the greatest...

'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and...

Dear Reader, these poems are an introduction to the passionate words of some of the English language's most renowned poets. Inspired by today's greatest lyricist, Taylor Swift, this collection overflows...

This work is a combination of critical essays on understanding romantic poetry, prose and drama, as well as the contemporary historical background, with a complementary A-Z section of detailed entries....

This comprehensive guide to literature in English is a source to the vast heritage of literature in the English language throughout the world. It ranges from Britain and Ireland to...

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In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between 1790 and 1830, a revolution in human feeling and imagination swept through English letters, producing some of the most...

Dear Reader, these poems are an introduction to the passionate words of some of the English language's most renowned poets. Inspired by today's greatest lyricist, Taylor Swift, this collection overflows...

This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...

Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the...

'The Professor' is Charlotte Bronte's first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe...