18 books like The seasons

What to read after The seasons — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Ulysses James Joyce · 1914 · ★ 3.8 · 790p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge… Shares: Community pick

The seasons James Thomson · 1771 · 203p · ≈ 6h · 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: Seasons, English poetry, Early works to 1800, Poetry

Dunciad Alexander Pope · 1727 · ★ 3.4 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Griffith 552;Head- and tail-pieces; initials; Anonymous. By Alexander Pope; M.E. Barry Rare Book Collection. Special Collections, Alumnae Library, Elms College; Description based on print version record. Shares: German poetry, Translations from English, English poetry, Poetry

Paradise Lost John Milton · 1667 · ★ 3.9 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Demanding John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his… Shares: German poetry, English poetry, Early works to 1800, 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

An essay on man Alexander Pope · 1733 · ★ 3.7 · 126p · ≈ 4h · Demanding "Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and… Shares: German poetry, Translations from English, English poetry, Poetry

Ami des enfans Arnaud Berquin · 1782 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Demanding The Children's Friend Shares: Anthologies, Early works to 1800

A Shropshire lad A. E. Housman · 1896 · ★ 4.0 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Challenging First published in 1896, this is Housman's first and most widely known collection of poems. Dismal and fatalistic, Housman speaks of the cruelty of life. In contrast to the dreary subject matter, the poetry itself is brisk and lively. Considered by many to be among the finest works of modern British poetry. Shares: In literature, English poetry, Poetry

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Francesco Colonna · 1499 · 474p · ≈ 15h · Demanding "It is hard to believe that the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499, one of the most famous books in the world, read by every Renaissance intellectual and endlessly referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, has never appeared in English. One reason, no doubt, is the length and difficulty of the text. It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical,… Shares: Wood-engraving, Early works to 1800

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

Gedichte Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1700 · ★ 4.1 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Demanding Wer sich die Muße nimmt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe abseits der üblichen Pfade zu erkunden, wer sich mit dieser Anthologie in Goethes Zeit und seine Denkweise einführen lässt, wird feststellen: Goethe ist zeitgemäß. Hier finden sich neben klassischen Gedichten und Balladen, Anakreontik und volksliedhaften Versen auch für den Augenblick verfasste Gelegenheitspoesie und immer wieder Absagen an… Shares: German poetry, Poetry

Works and Days Hesiod · 1559 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Demanding 'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the YearA new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings.Hesiod was the first self-styled 'poet' in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide and educate his… Shares: Seasons, Early works to 1800, 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

Duineser Elegien Rainer Maria Rilke · 1923 · ★ 4.4 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Challenging xiv, 389 pages : 28 cm Shares: German poetry, Poetry

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: English poetry, Poetry

A history of England in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son Oliver Goldsmith · 1764 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Relations, Early works to 1800

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