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William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He wrote the most popular English plays and comedies of the late 17th century called “restoration” period. His career wasn’t long. After the peri……続きを見る

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1815) was an Irish poet and social activist. For a long period of time he was the owner of the London Theatre Royal. His most famous literary works are ‘The Rivals’, ……続きを見る

Christopher Marlowe (26 feb 1564 - 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator. His plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Marlowe's first pla……続きを見る

Christopher Marlowe (26 feb 1564 - 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator. His plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Marlowe's first pla……続きを見る

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1815) was an Irish poet and social activist. For a long period of time he was the owner of the London Theatre Royal. His most famous literary works are ‘The Rivals’, ……続きを見る

Dramatic Realism, since its birth in the hectic late years of the nineteenth century, gave theatrical and thematic energy to the interaction between a play’s text and the way that it looked on the s……続きを見る

Christopher Marlowe (26 feb 1564 - 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator. His plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Marlowe's first pla……続きを見る

Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most popular 18th century English writers , poet and playwright, made famous by such works as the series of essays “The Citizen of the World, or, Letters from a Chine……続きを見る

Oliver Goldsmith (10 Nov 1728 – 4 Apr 1774) was a British novelist, poet and playwright. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh but did not take a degree, and made his career as a writer……続きを見る

Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most popular 18th century English writers , poet and playwright, made famous by such works as the series of essays “The Citizen of the World, or, Letters from a Chine……続きを見る

Christopher Marlowe (26 feb 1564 - 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator. His plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Marlowe's first pla……続きを見る

William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a poet, who is remembered for parodies and light verse and who had a greatly influenced on the style of later Scottish humorous satire. Called 'the first modern profe……続きを見る

Daniel Defoe was an English writer and publicist, mostly known as the author of “Robinson Crusoe”. Не was prolific writer, published more than 500 books, pamphlets and articles, examined the politic……続きを見る

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a prominent English poet and playwright. His works are full of deep philosophical thoughts, his writing style is quite sophisticated and at the same time vague. Rober……続きを見る

Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving……続きを見る

Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, mostly known as the translator of J. C. Mardrus's French version of “One Thousand Nights and One Night”. In the most famous version of the po……続きを見る

Walkern, 1712. England has been free from witch-hunts for decades until Jane Wenham is blamed for a tragic death and charged with witchcraft. A terrifying ordeal begins, as the village is torn betwe……続きを見る

“Dine and Die” is a ‘who-done-it’ play written specifically to be produced at a restaurant dinner party. During the short play Linda is murdered. The murder weapon: French fries fried in peanut oil.……続きを見る

If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and ……続きを見る

This book contains Percy Byssche Shelley's 'Epipsychidion', a seminal poetic work published by the prolific English romantic poet in 1821. The main theme of this piece is that of a meditation on the……続きを見る

“Exiles” is a 1918 play in three acts by Irish writer James Joyce. Started just after the outbreak of WWI in 1914, it is essentially a study of a husband-and-wife relationship which harks back to th……続きを見る

"In this collection of their poetry, published under gender-concealing pseudonyms, we get an intimate glimpse of their fears, hopes, faith, and desires." ー Haunted Library "This collection is not o……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, Keith Gray's hit novel features a group of three friends who embark on a remarkable journey from Cleethorpes to Scotland with a stolen urn containing t……続きを見る

have you read romance Novel before? good , this is the book for you as it captures the same taste you thirst for in a romance novel and better yet it has lyrics you don't get from romance novels sor……続きを見る

Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness……続きを見る

"There is an inevitable sadness to this moving collection. This being James, there are also moments of zinging energy and a sense of fun…James will remain in the present tense as those Japanese Mapl……続きを見る

All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic work of drama by John Dryden written in 1677. Today, it is Dryden's best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and i……続きを見る

Continuing his explorations of T. S. Eliot's most captivating yet difficult works, G. Douglas Atkins' new and insightful book takes on the question of Eliot and hermeneutics: understanding and being……続きを見る

Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats is considered one of the most important figures in the second generation of English Romantic poets. Born on Halloween in 1795, John Keats l……続きを見る

"Against shitty poesy" is a cry against poetry useless, empty, full of obsolete words to give impressions and play the part of the poet. With this book, I try to give meaning to the words ……続きを見る