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The first Saxon migration to the British Isles arrived in 449AD, after which a flourishing culture developed (Anglo-Saxon) - only ending with the Norman invasion in 1066. Of all the Anglo-Saxon art ……続きを見る

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Roman……続きを見る

Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early warning s……続きを見る

What's spared are the images of the early consciousness- a landscape is stripped to its signs- the sudden idea is the source of faith- things appear as their possible selves- first impressions are a……続きを見る

For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound r……続きを見る

A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare’s Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak,seeks to identify in Shake-speare’e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradit……続きを見る

This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849). While his writing has elicited high praise from poets ……続きを見る

A Race of Female Patriots argues that public-spirited women proliferated on the eighteenth-century British stage to catalyze an affective experience of political belonging, as dramatists imagined ne……続きを見る

“Out to the churn, you will depart, out to that London din. And don’t return, without the heart, of the man called Halloran Kin.” Halloran Kin lives in Belfast as an idler, just one of a clan of 100……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of conc……続きを見る

“Rusty Lanes and Rosé Skies“ is a special treat. This little eBook is full of charming poetry and a proof of what mind, hands and eyes can achieve. 24 outstanding haikus gracefully melt with ……続きを見る

The best way to describe this book is to use the voice of its author. In his foreword Dafydd Gibbon gave the perfect description: „Polar temperatures spread towards the Tropics of Capricorn and Canc……続きを見る

Same words, different stories. This may serve as a very short description of this volume of haikus. Dafydd Gibbon's poetry was the basis for two different stories. Poetry evolves into fiction, trigg……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Ebenezer Cooke (ca. 1665 ca. 1732), a London-born poet, wrote what some scholars consider the first American satire: “The Sotweed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland, A Satyr” (……続きを見る

This edition does not include illustrations. A major biography of the most modern and the most underrated of English Literature's Great Victorians. Henry James called Robert Browning (1812–89) 'a tr……続きを見る

If you love words and the English language, undoubtedly you will love this volume of modern verse. It runs the gamut from humour to tragic to profound. Hay paints with words in a fresh and authentic……続きを見る

If you were an 8 year old Iraqi girl whose parents had been killed by a bomb; if you had witnessed your son get into the wrong crowd, begin taking drugs, then commit suicide; if you had your limbs d……続きを見る

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 boo……続きを見る

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem written by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron when at Kinsham. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describes the travels and refle……続きを見る

Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Lati……続きを見る

This anthology contains eighty fantastic poems, some of which won awards with national and international poetry competitions. They include poems of comedy, drama, history, love and romance, despair ……続きを見る

A compilation of poetry written by George Mackay Brown over a 30-year period, which represents his favourite work. These poems reflect the richness of the Orkney Island community where he lives - a ……続きを見る

This collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown centres on the theme of journeys - including an ill-fated 19th century trip ending off the Orkney island of Westray, from which the book takes it……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE BROKEN PITCHER DON FERNANDO GOMERSALEZ THE COURTSHIP OF OUR CID AMERICAN BALLADS THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE TH……続きを見る

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich sel……続きを見る

The farmer’s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those that know him only……続きを見る

What age is this? What landscape? Seventy-two exquisite apothegms compose a sequence, evoke some tragedy, give rise to a journey. And there are seasons; the way a season will match a temperament. So……続きを見る

Writing Crossroads was quite simply a labour of love. It took me a little longer to write than I had originally expected; This was due to me trying to produce a good range of material that matched t……続きを見る

This edition of his "Poetical Works" contains all Shelley's ascertained poems and fragments of verse that have hitherto appeared in print. In preparing the volume I have worked as far as possible on……続きを見る

This collection of one-act plays appears because of an increasingly large demand for such a volume. The plays have been selected and the Introduction prepared to meet the need of the student or teac……続きを見る