18 books like Hudibras

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North of Boston Robert Frost · 1910 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I… Shares: Personal copy, Library, Poetry

Poems Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · 1836 · ★ 4.1 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. A particular instance of poetry is a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony… Shares: Poetry as Topic, Modern Literature, Poetry

The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith · 1770 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Demanding This long poem by eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith about the destruction of an English village was published in New York in 1917, with 35 illustrations by the Etching Club. Shares: Personal copy, Library, English poetry, Poetry

Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1800 · ★ 4.2 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, across a wide range of subjects, including individuality, freedom, society and many more topics. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.… Shares: Personal copy, Library

Lectures in America Gertrude Stein · 1935 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne,… Shares: Personal copy, Library, English literature

England, my England D. H. Lawrence · 1915 · ★ 3.5 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A slim collection of short stories, written during the eight years or so previous to its publications date of 1922. Shares: Personal copy, Library

Poetical works of Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges · 1898 · ★ 3.7 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Each section preceded by a bibliographical note. Second edition. Prometheus the firegiver, a mask in the Greek manner.--Demeter, a mask.--Eros and psyche.--The growth of love.--Shorter poems, --New poems, --Later poems.--Poems in classical prosody.--October, and other poems.--New verse.--Two pieces written after the war.--Index of titles and first lines. Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Don Juan Lord Byron · 1819 · ★ 3.6 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Poems George Meredith · 1851 · 623p · ≈ 20h · Demanding This is a poem book. Aurelius prudentius clemens, the greatest of the Latin Christian poets, was born in the year 348 during the consulship of Salia and Philip. The place of his birth is not known with certainty. Three cities of Hither Spain are designated by him as his own: Tarragona, Saragossa, and Calahorra. Partisans of each have claimed him as a native son with convincing arguments. In the… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Lousiad Pindar, Peter · 1785 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Demanding Shares: English Satire, Poetry

Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1827 · ★ 4.0 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance… Shares: Illustrated books, English poetry, Poetry

Idylls of the King Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · ★ 4.0 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Idylls are a series of twelve long blank verse poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, telling the tale of Arthur and his round table. While some of them are stories of adventure and daring of the kind you’d expect from an Arthurian epic, many take on a darker tone, relating how Arthur was betrayed and how his kingdom grew decadent and eventually fell.The poems stand on their own as carefully… Shares: Illustrated books, Knights and knighthood, Poetry

The botanic garden Erasmus Darwin · 1700 · ★ 3.9 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Demanding One of the first popular science books, the intent of The Botanic Garden is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's sexualized language, which anthropomorphizes plants, Darwin makes botany interesting and relevant to his readers, but his reliance on conventional images of women when describing plants and flowers reinforces traditional… Shares: Poetry as Topic, Early works to 1800, Poetry

Satyrs upon the Jesuits John Oldham · 1681 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Shares: English Satire, Early works to 1800, English literature

Arcadia Sir Philip Sidney · 1598 · ★ 3.7 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all… Shares: Early works to 1800, English literature, Poetry

Short stories Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · ★ 4.5 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a works of the short stories by Guy de Maupassant. The Diamond Necklace  The Diary of a Madman  Farewell The False Gems The Gamekeeper The Horla  The Inn In the Moonlight The Mad Woman The Marquis de Fumerol The Moribund The Piece of String The Story of a Farm Girl Theodule Sabot's Confession The Trip of the Horla Useless Beauty "Who Knows?" The Wolf The Wreck The Wrong… Shares: Personal copy, Library

Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray · 1751 · 25p · ≈ 50m · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Departmental ditties and other verses Rudyard Kipling · 1800 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Departmental Ditties and other verses, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/ditties/ . Shares: English poetry, Poetry

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