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Robert Service dreamed of a life of adventure and freedom to live and write as he wanted, surrounded by nature and the beauty of the world. Born in Lancashire, England, he developed an urge early on to travel abroad, and set his sights on the rough and tumble “wild west” of Canada. Part journalist and part storyteller, he ventured up and down the west coast of the United States and wrote romantic stories of cowboys, gold prospectors, and characters of the lush, wild backwoods. This collection of...
| Автор | Robert W. Service |
Robert Service (1874-1958) dreamed of a life of adventure and freedom to live and write as he wanted, surrounded by nature and the beauty of the world. Born in Lancashire, England, he developed an urge early on to travel abroad, and set his sights on the rough and tumble «wild west» of Canada. Part journalist and part storyteller, he ventured up and down the west coast of the United States and wrote romantic stories of cowboys, gold prospectors and characters of the lush, wild backwoods. This...
| Автор | Robert W. Service |
Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats is considered one of the most important figures in the second generation of English Romantic poets. Born on Halloween in 1795, John Keats lived a very short life, dying at the age of twenty-five from tuberculosis. In 1814 John Keats began an apprenticeship with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary and by 1816 had achieved his apothecary’s license, which allowed him to practice medicine. However Keats passion lied elsewhere and by the...
| Автор | John Keats |
The essential collection of prose and poetry by W. B. Yeats:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>THE CELTIC TWILIGHT<br>THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN<br>FOUR YEARS<br>THE HOUR-GLASS A MORALITY BY W. B. YEATS<br>THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE BY W. B. YEATS<br>ROSA ALCHEMICA<br>THE SECRET ROSE:<br>STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN<br>SYNGE AND THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME<br>THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS
| Автор | W. B. Yeats |
The essential collection of books and poetry by Robert Browning:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON<br>SHORTER POEMS<br>CHRISTMAS EVE<br>DRAMATIC ROMANCES<br>AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ROBERT BROWNING'S POETRY<br>THE LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING<br>MEN AND WOMEN<br>SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF ROBERT BROWNING
| Автор | Robert Browning |
The Essential Alfred Tennyson Collection, in one book:<br><br>Beauties of Tennyson <br>The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson <br>Enoch Arden &c. <br>Idylls of the King <br>The Last Tournament <br>The Princess <br>The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson <br>Becket and other plays <br>Queen Mary and Harold
| Автор | Alfred Tennyson |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature. Table of Contents: Introduction: Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin Ode Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to Apollo Ode...
| Автор | John Keats |
With the first publication of «Leaves of Grass» in 1855, Walt Whitman was solidified as an American poet of undeniable importance. The poems contained in that slim volume candidly spoke of politics, slavery, sexuality, consciousness, and the spiritual world. His content was as radical as his form; he utilized free verse unlike anyone before, creating a poetic tongue that was unique and personal yet universal and cosmic. Born in New York in 1819, Whitman came to represent the spirit of an...
| Автор | Walt Whitman |
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Leaves of Grass, 1855 Leaves of Grass, 1892 Old Age Echoes Uncollected and Rejected Poems Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass,...
| Автор | Walt Whitman |
The fifth and final volume of poetry by the author of Wild Cat Falling was originally published in India in 2013. There are 45 poems from the Master of the Ghost Dreaming, as he reels and sways through his long held interest in Buddhism and the Blues. While still writing about rejuvenation and the great cycles of Life, there is a strong awareness of finality, of passing on, of Death. Always lyrical, this is a wonderful offering from the award-winning poet.
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
The 14th century poet Hafiz is one of the most celebrated Persian lyric poets and is still highly regarded to this day. His poems explore the themes of love, the celebration of wine, and exposing the hypocrisy of those who hold themselves out as examples of moral rectitude. This collection includes a selection of forty-three poems translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and an introduction to Hafiz and his poems by the translator.
| Автор | Hafiz |
an inkstorm summoned under live oak we dreamed is a drenching and rich collection of poems and pieces from a traveler, a musician, a writer who has delved into the misty and precarious task of splaying out the ecstasy & agony, the delight & acquittal, the searchingness & redemption of life, love, heartbreak, grief, combustion, and reflection.
| Автор | daniel boonelight |
Farid ud-Din Attar (1145/46 – 1221) was a Persian poet, druggist, and social theorist of Sufism, who wrote much of his poetry while treating hundreds of patients a day with his herbal remedies. As a young man he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and sought wisdom during his travels in Egypt, Damascus and India. His masterpiece, «The Conference of the Birds», has survived centuries because of its captivating poetic style and its symbolic exploration on the true nature of God. This 4500-line poem...
| Автор | Farid ud-Din Attar |
Farid ud-Din Attar was a Persian poet, druggist, and social theorist of Sufism, who wrote much of his poetry while treating hundreds of patients a day with his herbal remedies. As a young man he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and sought wisdom during his travels in Egypt, Damascus, and India. His masterpiece, “The Conference of the Birds”, has survived centuries because of its captivating poetic style and its symbolic exploration on the true nature of God. This 4500-line poem follows the birds of...
| Автор | Farid ud-Din Attar |
This collection of extant odes by the Greek poet Pindar (c. 581-438 BC) presents a comprehensive look at the odes that define his poetic career. Along with Sappho, Pindar is one of the esteemed nine lyric poets of Ancient Greece. These extant odes are also representative of Greece's cultural and artistic trends at the beginning of the dynamic classical period (5th cen. – 4th cen. BC). Primarily in the mode of his famed victory odes, or «epikinia», Pindar elevates the legends of various...
| Автор | Pindar |
"The Extant Odes of Pindar" by Pindar (translated by Ernest Myers). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Pindar |
This collection of poems, 'The Ivy Entangles', attempts to share with the reader some of the inner thoughts, the sentiments and perhaps at times a certain perspective or opinion of some events, people and places that have been significant to me during my life to date. Dermot Gill simply accepts raw reality as it is and presents it in such a charming way.
| Автор | D J Gill |
Considered to be one of the most difficult poems in the history of the English language, “The Faerie Queen” by Edmund Spenser is a marvelous epic poem depicting the virtues of the legendary King Arthur and his knights in a mythical place called Faerieland. Spenser based his interpretation of the virtues on those named by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Each one of the books discusses a different hero who displays one of these virtues; however, this entire collection was meant to be a tribute to...
| Автор | Edmund Spenser |