18 books like A drunk man looks at the thistle

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The grave Robert Blair · 1743 · 35p · ≈ 1h · Demanding The Grave Robert Blair, scottish poet (1699-1746) This ebook presents «The Grave», from Robert Blair. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- THE GRAVE Shares: Scottish poetry, Poetry

A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 · ★ 4.3 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers. Here is a very special collection to be treasured forever. Shares: Scottish poetry, Poetry

Les contemplations Victor Hugo · 1856 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le… Shares: Poetry

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the… Shares: Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written–poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition. Shares: Poetry

Poems Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · ★ 3.5 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Challenging An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work. Shares: Scottish poetry, Poetry

Poetry and belief in the work of T.S. Eliot Kristian Smidt · 1949 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature. Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Shadows Numberless Adam Fieled · 2005 · 10p · ≈ 20m · Moderate Shadows Numberless: Four Collections Of Critical Material by Adam Fieled encompasses two centuries of poetry and literature. Portions have appeared in Jacket Magazine, The Argotist Online, Tears in the Fence, and elsewhere. [1]: https://archive.org/stream/shadowsNumberlessFourCollectionsOfCriticalMaterialByAdamFieled/ShadowsNumberless#page/n0/mode/2up Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to… Shares: Poetry

The prelude William Wordsworth · 1850 · ★ 3.9 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth. Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Story of Meriadoc King of Cambria Mildred Leake Day · 2019 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Published in 1988: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria is about a prince of the kingdom of Cambria (pre-Saxon Wales) who after surviving an attempted assassination by his uncle, fights as a young Knight in the cause of royal justice. Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Romance of Tristan Béroul · 2019 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill · 1896 · ★ 3.6 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law. In legal context, prejudice differs from the more common use of the word and so the term has specific technical meanings. Shares: Poetry

Prince Arthur Sir Richard Blackmore · 1695 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Demanding 90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1) assembles an expansive canon of world literature, placing philosophical dialogue, epic romance, social realism, Gothic speculation, detective fiction, travel narrative, lyric meditation, and the short story in productive proximity. Spanning antiquity to modernity, the volume reveals how enduring questions of freedom, desire, morality, class, imagination, and… Shares: Poetry

Valhalla: the myths of Norseland Julia Clinton Jones · 1878 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Poetry

The Poetic Edda Henry Adams Bellows · 1936 · 515p · ≈ 17h · Challenging The Poetic Edda translated by Henry Adams Bellows This edition is a reprint of the 1923 Bellows translation of Scandinavian mythology. Table Of Contians.... 01. Voluspo 02. Hovamol 03. Vafthruthnismol 04. Grimnismol 05. Skirnismol 06. Harbarthsljoth 07. Hymiskvitha 08. Lokasenna 09. Thrymskvitha 10. Alvissmol 11. Baldrs Draumar 12. Rigsthula 13. Hyndluljoth 14. Svipdagsmol 15. Völundarkvitha 16.… Shares: Poetry

Helen of Troy, and other poems Sara Teasdale · 1911 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Challenging This book is a collection of poems by Sara Tesdale beautiful poems which are simpler and related to general topics beautiful songs about the city she loved so much and later made her home. Read this anthology and swoon. Shares: Poetry

Cognitive Poetics Peter Stockwell · 2002 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:• updated theory, frameworks, and examples throughout, including new explanations of literary meaning, the power of reading, literary force, and emotion; • extended examples of literary… Shares: Literary Criticism, Poetry

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