Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhyth ...Show more
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry by Marcus Clapham
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his ...Show more
Mabinogion by Sioned Davies (Trans)
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.''Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?' Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous author ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is ha ...Show more
The London Scene by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: (with Virginia Woolf)
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness. Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with her apron-strings, and tried not to feel ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
A story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of the upper-class England of Austen's day, the novel is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging story.