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1	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue (Translator) add to wishlist Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he ... see all copies from $5.49! new only from $6.10! \| SVS
2	Oxford Book of Story Poems more books like this by Professor Michael Harrison (Editor), Christopher Stuart-Clark (Editor) add to wishlist An anthology of narrative verse accompanied by color and black-and-white illustrations. Selections include Stevie Smith's "Fairy Story", Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", and Edward Lear's "The Pelican Chorus", as well as works by Ray Bradbury and Adrian Mitchell. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry more books like this by Patrick Cheney (Editor) add to wishlist This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the ... see all copies from $2.66! new only from $2.66! \| SVS
4	The sonnets and narrative poems more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
5	Narrative Poems, the Pel more books like this by William Shakespeare, Jonathan V Crewe (Editor), A R Braunmuller (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| SVS
6	Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems more books like this by Peter Hyland add to wishlist This title provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece" the "Sonnets" and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakespeare as a sceptical voice within the turbulent social context in ... see all copies from $17.79! new only from $27.80! \| SVS
7	Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts more books like this by Roald Dahl, Alan Cumming (Read by) add to wishlist Revolting Rhymes If you thought you knew the stories of some of the most popular fairy tales, think again. Here are six of the best known tales retold with more than a twist or two, by that master of the comic and the bloodcurdling, Roald Dahl. Dirty Beasts Meet Roald Dahl's ghastly menagerie of wonderful comic animals. The collection includes ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
8	Poems more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist A collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, songs from plays and celebrated soliloquies from "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", Henry V" and "The Merchant of Venice". In addition, substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth are included. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Story-Telling Ballads more books like this by Frances Jenkins Olcott add to wishlist Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrative poems, that will make the heart beat faster and the pulse-bound. They offer a feast of good things - romances, hero-tales, fairy legends, and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms, witches, mermaids with golden combs, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.01! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing more books like this by Andrew Bennett add to wishlist Andrew Bennett's original study of Keats focuses on questions of narrative and audience as a means to offer new readings of the major poems. It discusses ways in which reading is 'figured' in Keats's poetry, and suggests that such 'figures of reading' have themselves determined certain modes of response to Keats's texts. Together with important ... see all copies from $42.11! new only from $42.11! \| first editions \| SVS
11	English and Scottish ballads. more books like this by Robert Graves add to wishlist see all copies from $4.31! first editions
12 view cover	The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse more books like this by Peter Opie (Editor), Iona Opie (Editor) add to wishlist This is a story-book in verse, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written at any time over the past six hundred years. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	Sonnets and Narrative Poems: The Complete Non-Dramatic Poetry more books like this by William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet (Editor) add to wishlist A discussion of Shakespeare's life accompanies a collection of his sonnets and narrative poems, highlighted by critical notes and scholarly comments. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50!
14 view cover	Oxford Books of Verse more books like this by Iona Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) add to wishlist This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written over the past six hundred years. Here will be found Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'; the tale of John Gilpin and of the Idiot Boy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.08! \| first editions
15 view cover	Lord Randal and Other British Ballads more books like this by Francis J Child (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95!
16	George Crabbe & the Progress of Eighteenth-Century Narrative Verse more books like this by Beth Nelson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.05! first editions \| SVS
17	Shelley's Major Verse: The Narrative and Dramatic Poetry more books like this by Stuart M Sperry add to wishlist This book attempts to rectify the imbalance by beginning to reintegrate the poetry with the life. We know relatively little about Shelley's earliest days. There can be little doubt, however, that as an infant and a child he knew the force of love, inevitably in the first instance from his mother. It is my argument that love provides the life force ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $64.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics more books like this by A C Spearing add to wishlist This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $114.75!
19	The Mind's Empire: Myth and Form in George Chapman's Narrative Poems more books like this by Professor Raymond B Waddington add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse more books like this by Iona Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) add to wishlist An anthology of 59 poems, most of which are given in their entirety, representing narrative verse from Chaucer to Auden. The editors have chosen poems that tell a straightforward and complete story or are, like Chaucer's "Death and the Three Revellers", stories within a story, or which are episodes from longer poems complete in themselves. Thus, ... see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: And Other Classic Stories in Verse more books like this by Robin A Waterfield, Samuel Taylor Coleridge add to wishlist This is a collection of narrative verse, particularly chosen to entertain children and develop a love of traditional poetry. It includes "The Lady of Shalott" by Tennyson, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Browning, "The Jumblies" by Lear and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.33!
22	The Viking Book of Folk Ballads more books like this by Albert B Friedman (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.38!
23	Poems, Chiefly Narrative more books like this by W. L. MacDonald (Editor), Francis Cox Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
24 view cover	Romantic and Victorian Long Poems: A Guide more books like this by Adam Roberts add to wishlist This study provides detailed and wide-ranging accounts of all the varieties of long poem - epic, romance, verse-novel and sequences - published in the romantic and Victorian periods. Writers in the 19th century saw these grand poetic projects as their greatest achievements and Adam Roberts's summaries and critical accounts of these seek to render ... see all copies from $13.98! new only from $13.98! \| first editions
25	The poet's tales; a new book of story poems. more books like this by William Cole (Compiled by), Charles Keeping add to wishlist An anthology of story poems from English and American sources grouped under such headings as "Strange and Mysterious," "Love Stories," and "At Sea." see all copies from $3.75! SVS

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