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Poems Geoffrey Chaucer · 1800 · ★ 3.5 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Demanding The object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces - The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen to do so in a way that will render their "popular perusal" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and… Shares Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Medieval Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Piers Plowman William Langland · 1856 · ★ 3.0 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This book is a new verse translation of Piers from Middle English which preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. It derives from a 2012 arts festival presentation performed in the priory where Langland--a contemporary of Chaucer--was probably educated"-- Shares Christian poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Piers the Plowman William Langland · 1550 · ★ 3.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This is one of the masterpieces of medieval literature. This new complete edition of the orginal text of the B-version answers every need of both the student and the interested lay reader. Marginal glosses, footnote translations, and a commentary providing textual, lexical, historycal and literary annotation facilitate the understanding, appreciation and, above all, the enjoyment of this great… Shares Christian poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Textual Criticism, English poetry

Parzival Wolfram von Eschenbach · 1885 · ★ 3.7 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Medieval Manuscripts, Textual Criticism, Facsimiles, Manuscripts with this book.

Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer · 1483 · ★ 3.7 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A 1932 translation into modern English of a text written by Chaucer in c.1385, the story being set in Classical Antiquity around 800 B.C. and being a love story concerning its two principal characters, the Trojan soldier Troilus and his Greek paramour, Cressida, set during the ten years of the Trojan War between Greece and the city state of Troy. The story is based on Classical sources,… Shares Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Medieval Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

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

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

Poems George Meredith · 1851 · 623p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Shares English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Poetry, History with this book.

Pearl Sir Israel Gollancz · 1891 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Medieval Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry with this book.

Moments of vision Thomas Hardy · 1889 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging ix, 443 p. ; 23 cm Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry

Roman de la Rose Guillaume de Lorris · 1493 · ★ 3.0 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus. Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their… Shares Medieval Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Poetry

Classical and Christian ideas in English Renaissance poetry Isabel Rivers · 1979 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 1979 Shares Christianity and literature, Sources, English poetry

Introduction to the Gawain-Poet

Introduction to the Gawain-Poet Ad Putter · 2014 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Christian poetry, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Songs of innocence and of experience William Blake · 1794 · ★ 4.1 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet

Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet Piotr Spyra · 2014 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Christian poetry, Christianity and literature, English poetry, History with this book.

Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray · 1751 · 25p · ≈ 50m · Challenging Shares English poetry, Poetry with this book.

Poems by John Keats John Keats · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. Shares Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry, Poetry

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