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Watership Down Richard Adams · 1972 · ★ 4.1 · 443p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—soon to be a BBC and Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved… Shares: Community pick

Peacock pie, a book of rhymes Walter De la Mare · 1913 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Peacock Pie presents an extensive selection of de la Mare's best poetry, in thematically themes sections such as are "Up and Down," "Boys and Girls," "Three Queer Tales," "Places and People," "Beasts," "Witches and Fairies," "Earth and Air," and "Songs." Shares: Children's poetry, English poetry, Poetry

D.H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence · 1928 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A collection of poems on themes of animals, people, celebration and condemnation, and love, by a prolific English poet, novelist, critic, travel writer, playwright, and painter. Shares: Children's poetry, Correspondence, English poetry, Criticism and interpretation

Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1896 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging "I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January of 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. For the next twenty months, he and the world-renowned poet Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four… Shares: English Poets, Miniature books, Correspondence, 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: English Poets, Correspondence, English poetry, Criticism and interpretation

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: English Poets, Children's poetry, Correspondence, English 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

Essays Matthew Arnold · 1865 · ★ 4.5 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Victorian English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold was the archetypal sage writer, noted for his classical attacks on the tastes and manners of his time. His poetry is characterised by its classically poised, serene and grand style, which is often intimate, personal, full of romantic regret and nostalgic in tone. Arnold’s incisive essays chastised and instructed the reader on contemporary… Shares: English poetry, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Poetry

Poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1844 · ★ 4.1 · 526p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares: English Poets, Correspondence, English poetry, Poetry Shares: English Poets, Correspondence, English poetry, Poetry

Down-adown-derry Walter De la Mare · 1922 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Holt, New York. Shares: Children's poetry, English poetry, Poetry

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II Emily Dickinson · 1890 · ★ 4.3 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This Modern Library edition presents the more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and… Shares: Miniature books, Children's poetry, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry

Literary criticism William Wordsworth · 1905 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the early figures of British romanticism. Their publication of the volume LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798 often serves as a marker of sorts for when that movement publicly began. As a young artist—already showing signs of being a gifted writer and thinker at St. John’s… Shares: English Poets, Correspondence, History and criticism, Poetry

It's Halloween Jack Prelutsky · 1977 · ★ 5.0 · 56p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. "Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level."--Kirkus Reviews. Shares: Juvenile poetry, Children's poetry, Poetry

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog Sarah Catherine Martin · 1790 · ★ 3.9 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Demanding Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog. Shares: Miniature books, Juvenile poetry, Children's poetry, English poetry

Ted Hughes Terry Gifford · 1981 · ★ 3.6 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This innovative casebook introduces readers to wide-ranging critical dialogue about the work of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and influential British poets of the twentieth century. In twelve new essays, international authorities on Hughes examine and debate his work, shedding new light on familiar texts. Split into two parts, the first half of this book examines Hughes's work through… Shares: English Poets, Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 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

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

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