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Poems William Wordsworth · 1807 · ★ 4.1 · 580p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The aim of this edition is to present all textual evidence of Wordsworth's work on the lyric and shorter narrative poems he composed between 1800 and 1807, the primary fruits of which appeared in 1807 under the title Poems in Two Volumes. - Preface. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry

Poems by John Keats John Keats · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. Shares: Romanticism, English Poets, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Cowper Goldwin Smith · 1800 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this masterful biography, Goldwin Smith presents the life and works of William Cowper (1731-1800), whom Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the best modern poet". Tracing Cowper's life—from his beginnings in England to his death—Smith analyzes his major lyrical works and as well as his hymns. Smith also offers an examination of the writer's lasting influence on Romantic poetry. Shares: English Poets, Poets, English Authors, Biography & Memoir

Poems Lord Byron · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Challenging xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm Shares: English Poets, English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth · 1798 · ★ 4.0 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and… Shares: Coleridge, Romanticism, English poetry, Criticism and interpretation

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

Proserpine & Midas Mary Shelley · 1922 · ★ 3.4 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Proserpine & Midas includes a table of contents.  Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Songs of innocence and of experience William Blake · 1794 · ★ 4.1 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This volume of verse by the great English poet and artist William Blake contains two collections originally published separately in 1789 and 1784. This 1925 edition was edited by British literature professor George H. Cowling. Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry

Poems Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 918p · ≈ 30h · Demanding A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full. Shares: English Poets, English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts

Poems Geoffrey Chaucer · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Chaucer's Shorter Poems consists of several of the lesser known works by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales: The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Parliament of Fowles Truth Gentilesse Merciles Beaute Lak of Stedfastnesse Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry

A preface to Wordsworth John Arthur Purkis · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to… Shares: English Poets, Poets, Criticism and interpretation, English literature

Milton's Poems John Milton · 1605 · ★ 3.7 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Demanding John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden.… Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English poetry

Childe Harold's pilgrimage Lord Byron · 1812 · ★ 3.7 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the… Shares: English Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscripts, English literature

Tennyson Harold Nicolson · 1923 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victorias reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain… Shares: English Poets, Poets, Biography & Memoir

Among my books James Russell Lowell · 1870 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A book of essays by American poet and writer James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). There are six essays: Dryden Witchcraft Shakespeare Once More New England Two Centuries Ago Lessing Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Shares: Poets, Criticism and interpretation, English literature, Poetry

Robert Browning Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1903 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and public and yet quiet life, which culminated in one great dramatic test of character, and then fell back again into this union of quietude and publicity. Shares: English Poets, Biography & Memoir

The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI Robert Browning · 1800 · ★ 4.3 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Nineteen poems by Robert Browning include "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," and "Love among the Ruins." Shares: Lyrik, English Poets, English poetry, Criticism and interpretation

Design of Biographia Literaria Catherine M. Wallace · 2016 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and proposes a theory of Coleridge’s writing habits that "explain(s) his explanation". The author painstakingly analyses the Biographia’s organising structure distinguishing between the daring conception and often inept execution of Coleridge’s idea of critical discourse. It is… Shares: Coleridge, English Poets, Poets, Poetry

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