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In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women, rather than as a dangerous womanizer. When the first two cantos were anonymously published in 1819, th……続きを見る

An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold……続きを見る

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and research……続きを見る

Annarita Coriasco is the authress of this book of poetry. Annarita Coriasco's poetry is characterized by belonging to the "objective" kind, with the verification of the reality of things and social ……続きを見る

Rather than embrace the popularized songs and the hype that accompanies the turn of Y2K, Don A. Hoyt examines the real accomplishments that one might expect from a thousand years of new experience. ……続きを見る

A visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a huge collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and……続きを見る

Rising with a Distant Dawn is a powerful and moving poetry collection, which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ordi……続きを見る

'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic gen……続きを見る

Por norma, a feitura de um prefácio consubstancia, em si mesma, a noção de acrescento intelectual. Pode até considerar-se prestigiante ter um determinado prefaciador, tendo em vista o seu currículo ……続きを見る

The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Completed in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works o……続きを見る

**The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander. "A medieval romance…but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.…I couldn’t p……続きを見る

The second full length collection of poems by Buffalo N.Y. poet Frederick E. Whitehead. 続きを見る

This is a book of modern poems focusing on love and death. The overall arc of the book covers three sections, Before, After, and After Life. 続きを見る

My School in the Trees is about finding that special schoolyard where learning is fun. It is all around us if we only look. Other Nubber, How Do You Treat Your Ex, and Our One Thousand Days are poem……続きを見る

Satirist, philosopher, elegist, aphorist, cultural historian – Peter Porter is perhaps too singular a talent to be described as ‘representative’ of the age: an Australian whose easy familiarity with……続きを見る

Crossing Over is a book about change; places where we step over lines, where lines dissolve and reappear in our lives. The beautiful poetry in this book captures everything from the plight of the ho……続きを見る

"What I've finally come to is to simply live inside mystery, the inexplicable, the impossible-to-be-explained, an impossible-to-exist me living inside an impossible-to-exist universe." ーHugh Fox Pr……続きを見る

Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of the English language, Edmund Spenser is famous for ‘The Faerie Queene’, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty. Spenser’s……続きを見る

This is a collection of abstract poems based around the idea of the human battling through hardships, suffering a death of sorts, in order to come through as a stronger person. It focuses on family ……続きを見る

Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku acce……続きを見る

Appropriately for a book haunted by music, Katharine Towers’ poems exhibit an almost pianistic sense of timing, touch and tone. In The Floating Man, Towers writes about weight and weightlessness, pr……続きを見る

I've been writing for many years. In my early teens I starting expressing myself in poetry as a way of relieving stress and soon became quite fond of it (the writing not the stress). This ebook goes……続きを見る

Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing……続きを見る

I used to write poetry as a child living through terrible abuse. When I look back on my work, it was all so sad as a result, poetry died in me for many years. When I started blogging not long ago, p……続きを見る

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive ve……続きを見る

Banjo Paterson's ballads are as fresh and alive today as they were one hundred years ago. This lively selection of poetry and prose brings together all the old classics along with the not-so-well-kn……続きを見る

Black Marigolds by E. Powys Mathers "This is a versified translation of the Caurapancasika. This love poem of fifty stanzas was written by the Kasmiri poet Bilhana Kavi in the 11th century. The……続きを見る

Visits from the Seventh is a highly original debut. Arvio's wry, uncanny poems take the form of conversations between a woman and a throng on invisible presences--visitors, as she calls them--who co……続きを見る

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researche……続きを見る

you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his ……続きを見る