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George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to pattern poems, the shapes of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression of genuine feeling were the primary concerns of this poet, who admonished his readers to “dare to be true.” An Anglican priest who took his calling with deep seriousness, he brought to his work a religious reverence richly allied with a playful wit and with literary and musical gifts of the highest order. His best-loved poems, from “The Collar” and “Jordan” to “The Altar” and “Easter Wings,” achieve a perfection of form and feeling, a rare luminosity, and a timeless metaphysical grandeur.3 GradesSku: 9781400043293
Herbert: Poems by George Herbert
By: George Herbert$24.00 -
This edition of Julius Cesear is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials.Sku: 9780198328681
Julius Caesar (Oxford University Press)
By: William Shakespeare$15.50 -
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature.3 GradesSku: 9780307267115
Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling
By: Rudyard Kipling$24.00 -
First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time Nature without check with original energy.Sku: 9781847497550
Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman$16.00 -
Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems, Wordsworth penned works such as 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' and 'The Idiot Boy' that use colloquial speech and take the everyday as their theme. The collection also includes Coleridge's greatest poem 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', a supernatural tale of a sailor's voyage.Sku: 9780241303108
Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge$27.99 -
Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work.Sku: 9780393326420
Metamorphoses
By: Ovid, Translated by Charles Martin$23.95 -
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets, occasional poems, portions of Comus, Samson Agonistes, as well as Books I--XII of Paradise Lost.3 GradesSku: 9780679450993
Milton: Poems by John Milton
By: John Milton$19.95 -
Derived from Greek Epicureanism, Lucretius's work challenges ancient mythology in favor of virtuous materialism. Through a combination of rich poetry and thoughtful analysis, Lucretius tackles such subjects as happiness, the soul, fear of death and the gods, and the material world.Sku: 9781936648474
On the Nature of Things
By: Lucretius$26.50 -
NewSince the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the ‘hard sayings’.Sku: 9781848258594
Parable and Paradox: Sonnets On the Sayings of Jesus and Other Poems
By: Malcolm Guite$24.95 -
Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world's creation and the first humans; its focus is a poetic interpretation "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe / With loss of Eden."Sku: 9780486442877
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton$22.50 -
Milton’s magnificent poem narrating Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition.Sku: 9780241240618
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton$34.00 -
With the three works included in this volume--Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas--Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer as one of the greatest literary genius in history.Sku: 9780451531834
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
By: John Milton$8.99 -
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. Filled with colorful characters, thrilling battles and mystical visions, it is as lively as it is profound.Sku: 9781621645962
The Ballad of the White Horse
By: G.K. Chesterton$25.95 -
Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.Sku: 9780141195872
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno
By: Dante Alighieri, Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick$40.00 -
The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy.Sku: 9780140444438
The Divine Comedy: Paradise
By: Dante Alighieri, Translated by Mark Musa$25.99 -
The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Mark Musa.Sku: 9780140444421
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
By: Dante Alighieri, Translated by Mark Musa$23.00