This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of verse in English, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. The selection begins with the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, and includes a substantial section of extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poetry. The progression from the "metaphysical" school (poets such as Donne and ...
This anthology celebrates four centuries of verse by Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English poets, from the Elizabethan age to the present. Three volumes boxed, quarter bound in bonded leather: Spenser to Dryden; Sackville to Keats; Darley to Heaney.
This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of verse in English, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. The selection begins with the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, and includes a substantial section of extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poetry. The progression from the "metaphysical" school (poets such as Donne and ...
In Lisbon to attend a memorial service for his younger sister and her fellow students killed in a plane crash, seventeen-year-old Paul shares his introspection with her as he ponders the weaknesses of his parents and the meaning of life.
The short novel is a literary form that has stimulated writers to some of their greatest work. This selection, drawn from the period when the genre was at its height, 1880 to 1945, and from British, European and American authors, offers readers a wide range of imaginative fiction. In his introduction, Wain argues that the short novel exists as a ...
In this text, Peter Leonard is unhappily married to Heather, a fact he must keep secret from his employers, the University, as a young Fellow is expected to be unmarried. His brother Brian, comes centre stage as war approaches and their world is engulfed.
Set in Oxford, this novel is the first of a projected trilogy spanning fifty years charting the life of a son of an Oxford publican who wins a place at the university. The author also wrote "Hurry On Down" and the Whitbread Prize Winner "Young Shoulders".
This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This, the first of the two volumes, includes Spenser, Sydney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, and many others, together with a generous selection from less well-known writers. The richness and variety of this ...
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