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Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott……続きを見る

A love of rhyme and folklore were yielded to craft a quaint ninety-six line winter poem contained within a ridged structure of rhythm and rhyme. This is a narrative poem, which centres around a cold……続きを見る

The best in class all lined up and sitting on one bench, that's what's contained in this collection of poetry spanning forty years of writing by Seán Ó Leocháin. There's a few faces needing a bit of……続きを見る

Performed at the Globe Theater in 1605, King Leir is presumed to be a prime source for Shakespeare. Although the story is the same, in this anonymous version the ending is happy. This is the first t……続きを見る

Three Early Comedies Love's Labor's Lost Farce and fun follow when a young king and his three friends vow to give up women for a yearーjust as a pretty princess and her three ladies-in-waiting arriv……続きを見る

A collection of twelve original, comic and irreverent poems along with images, for the festive holiday also includes a bonus poem for the new year celebrations. Guaranteed to make you smile. 続きを見る

'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The Times Do Hirst and Spooner really ……続きを見る

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ……続きを見る

Poetry Collection Collection of seven poems Collection Title Found and Lost The Unicorn. Tells where the writer has seen his love but she won't let him get close. He refers to her as a unicorn Two h……続きを見る

A short, funny play for 7-11 ol ds, including a craft activity relevant to the Tudor times. Henry VII has to keep control of the royal finances. He also likes to know all the gossip around the palac……続きを見る

Death Rattle is an honest kaleidoscopic portrayal of the isolation, joy and abandonment that beats within the city's restless heart. It is a trilogy comprising of poems, narratives, lyrics and aphor……続きを見る

Tom Canty (youngest son of a family living with the dregs of society in Offal Court) has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loite……続きを見る

In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to m……続きを見る

George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishnessーcoating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession……続きを見る

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow R……続きを見る

This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.According to Anthony Welch,……続きを見る

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of t……続きを見る

This collection of poems by Christopher Whyte is finely crafted and well worth having on your bookshelf. The author taught Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow for many years, and now li……続きを見る

Small Town, Fife. Andy and Vicky were meant to be getting married tomorrow. The trouble is, Andy's stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, that he didn't survive it. The finest pleasures that Amster……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translatio……続きを見る

Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard Meier’s first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier’s poems are ofte……続きを見る

In Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell shows how the times have begun to warp time itself: in the poet’s vision, the past rears up again with its angry ghosts, the present is racked by its martial and climatic n……続きを見る

Une passion incompatible raconte lhistoire dramatisée des derniers trois mois dans la vie du poète activiste, Percy Bysshe Shelley.----Au printemps 1822, Percy et sa deuxième épouse, Mary Woolstonec……続きを見る

Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his……続きを見る

Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish ……続きを見る

Patrick Branwell Brontë was born on June 26th. 1817. He was part of Englands greatest literary family together with his sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Jane. However that perhaps was to prove also……続きを見る

George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exubera……続きを見る

Selected and edited by Franklin Baker. File revised 3/7/2008 to fix end-of-line problem generated by Kindle's conversion program. If you bought a copy before that time, you should be able to downloa……続きを見る

This vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu'. In this text Lowes examines the various sources of Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla……続きを見る

A book with a collection of metaphysical poetry, emphasis is on philosophy and the human attitude. 続きを見る