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Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
It was Boccaccio’s Decameron which inspired Chaucer, in the 1390s, to begin work on The Canterbury Tales, which was still unfinished at his death in October 1400. It tells the story of a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the city of Lo ...Show more
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Michael Irwin (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the l ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
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With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats by W. B. Yeats
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described ...Show more
The Works of Banjo Paterson by A.B. Paterson
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Category: No Category | Series: Poetry Library
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson may fairly be regarded as Australia's national poet. 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from the Snowy River' still strike a chord in the hearts of Australians wherever they may be, evoking, as they do, the rough life and values of the outback. The a ...Show more
The Works of John Donne by John Donne
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Edited with an Introduction, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography and Glossary by Roy Booth, Royal Holloway College, University of London. John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-ma ...Show more
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