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1	The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry more books like this by Patrick Cheney (Editor) 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 $3.82! new only from $3.82! \| SVS
2	Lord Randal and Other British Ballads more books like this by Francis J Child (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95!
3	The sonnets and narrative poems more books like this by William Shakespeare 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 $9.11! \| SVS
4	Poems more books like this by William Shakespeare The classic Arden editions of Shakespeare's best-loved plays have been specially selected for the collector and theater-goer in a handsomely produced Playgoer's edition. With the full Arden text, as edited by an established scholar for the second series of Arden Shakespeare editions plus an authoritative introduction and a wealth of helpful and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight more books like this by Bernard O'Donoghue (Translator) 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 $4.27! new only from $5.79! \| SVS
6	Narrative Poems more books like this by C S Lewis C.S. Lewis enjoyed both stories and poetry. His narrative poems combine his gift in story-telling with his skills as a poet. The four pieces in this book are the only narrative poems by Lewis known to be in existence. The poems are full of Lewis's romantic imagination; they display his love and knowlege of classic mythology and his own mastery of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Narrative Poems, the Pel more books like this by William Shakespeare, Jonathan V. Crewe (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Oxford Book of Story Poems more books like this by Professor Michael Harrison (Editor), Christopher Stuart-Clark (Editor) Dragons, castles and knights, mermaids, witches and magicians, ships on the high seas, journeys into mystery--they are all here, and more, in this new anthology of narrative verse for children. Story poems have always enchanted young readers, and in this comprehensive collection the old favorites like The Owl and the Pussycat and The Highwayman ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.18! \| first editions
9	The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse more books like this by Iona Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) 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! new only from $8.67! \| first editions
10	The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse more books like this by Peter Opie (Editor), Iona Opie (Editor) 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! new only from $25.48! \| first editions
11	Elizabethan erotic narratives : irony and pathos in the Ovidian poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries more books like this by William Keach see all copies from $27.75! first editions
12 view cover	Sonnets and Narrative Poems: The Complete Non-Dramatic Poetry more books like this by William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet (Editor) Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the text, an essay on Shakespeare's life and times, source material, critical commentaries, extensive bibliographies, and footnotes. And there's more -- Grow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $57.58! \| first editions
13 view cover	English Epic and Heroic Poetry more books like this by William Macneile Dixon see all copies from $6.83! new only from $23.26! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative more books like this by W A Davenport This book counters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. 'His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works - an intelligent, original and profitable view.' - "Studies In The Age Of Chaucer". see all copies from $22.00! new only from $80.36! \| SVS
15 view cover	Story-Telling Ballads more books like this by Frances Jenkins Olcott 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 $19.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Elizabethan narrative verse more books like this by Nigel Alexander see all copies from $6.32! first editions
17	George Crabbe & the Progress of Eighteenth-Century Narrative Verse more books like this by Beth Nelson see all copies from $2.50! first editions
18 view cover	Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems more books like this by Peter Hyland 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 $31.28! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Chaucer's Canterbury Tales more books like this by Joseph Gibaldi (Editor) Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $15.95!
20	The Mind's Empire: Myth and Form in George Chapman's Narrative Poems more books like this by Professor Raymond B Waddington see all copies from $4.45! first editions
21 view cover	Romantic and Victorian Long Poems: A Guide more books like this by Adam Roberts 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 $15.00! new only from $27.13! \| first editions
22	Poems, Chiefly Narrative more books like this by W. L. MacDonald (Editor), Francis Cox Walker see all copies from $5.00! first editions
23 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 Mysterious, mythic, fabulous -- this diverse collection of fifteen poems is a wonderful introduction to the world of narrative verse. From the much-loved The Lady of Shalott and The Pied Piper of Hamelin to the less familiar The Raven and Sohrab and Rustum, this is an anthology that will delight and surprise all readers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $95.13!
24	The poet's tales; a new book of story poems. more books like this by William Cole (Compiled by), Charles Keeping 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 $3.64! SVS
25 view cover	Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing more books like this by Andrew Bennett 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 $48.02! new only from $48.02! \| first editions \| SVS

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