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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich...
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Series by G.K. Chesterton volume no. 11
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G. K. Chesterton's "The Ballad of the White Horse" is the last great epic poem written in the English tradition. First published in 1911, it tells the heroic tale of Saxon King Alfred the Great and his defeat of the invading Viking army at the Battle of Ethandun. While Chesterton's work was not intended to be completely historically accurate, it is a deeply evocative and detailed account of an ancient and forgotten world. King Alfred has been driven...
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Riverside editions volume B3
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First published in 1872, this volume features a large collection of Robert Browning's poems selected by the poet himself. It is dedicated to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, Browning's contemporary and friend.
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Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly
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1896.
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Written while Stevenson was traveling across Scotland and California, Songs of Travel and Other Verses was a popular collection of poetry upon its publication in 1896, two years after Stevenson's death. The verses became more popular in 1901 when Ralph Vaughn Williams set them to music in his Songs of Travel.
8) Christabel
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1907.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's influential poem is reproduced here in a critical edition accompanied by a facsimile of the original manuscript.
9) Good poems
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The popular radio show host showcases some of his favorite poems, including the work of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, and Sharon Olds.
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Project Gutenberg etext volume no. 1031
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Methuen & Co
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1913.
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"Charmides and Other Poems" is a 1913 collection of poetry by Oscar Wilde. The poems include: "Charmides", "Requiescat", "San Miniato", "Rome Unvisited", "Humanitad", "Louis Napoleon", "Endymion (For Music)", "Le Jardin", "La Mer", "Le Panneau", "Les Ballons", "Canzonet", "Le Jardin des Tuileries", "Pan Double Villanelle", "In the Forest", "Symphony in Yellow", etc. A fantastic collection of some of Wilde's best poetry not to be missed by fans and...
11) Poems
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The Nottingham Society
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1909.
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially "The Importance of Being Earnest".
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A Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry. While the anthology was originally published in 1861, it was revised with the help of Alfred, Lord Tennyson roughly three decades later, and Palgrave excluded all poems by poets still living at that time. The anthology continues to be published in new editions with supplemental works by contemporary poets; however, it is still printed under Palgrave's name. The collection...
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[s.n.]
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1892.
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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the...
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Dover Publications
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1970
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This masterpiece of eighteenth-century English poetry tells the epic tale of a sailor who endures a fate worse than death for killing an albatross.
After callously shooting an albatross with his crossbow, a sailor is doomed to a nightmarish voyage from the Antarctic to the Equator before returning home as the sole survivor of the journey. When the haunting figure Life-in-Death wins his soul in a game of dice, the sailor is doomed to forever roam the...