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The Pilgrim's Progress The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley … OL107195W
Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang,Aberdeen Press In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the te… OL1089009W
Chaucer Chaucer Adolphus William Ward From the book:The biography of Geoffrey Chaucer is no longer a mixture of unsifted facts, and of more or less hazardous conjectures. Many and wide as are the gaps in our knowledge concerning the cour… OL1118017W
The ghost road The ghost road Pat Barker **From Amazon.com:** **The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.** *The Ghost Road* is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fi… OL11221644W
Byron Byron Harold Nicolson Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First writte… OL1155706W
Possession Possession A. S. Byatt Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, *Possession* is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the… OL115647W
Selected letters of John Keats Selected letters of John Keats John Keats "The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new editi… OL1455219W
Poems by John Keats Poems by John Keats John Keats Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. OL1455259W
Contemporary poets Contemporary poets Daniel L. Kirkpatrick,James Vinson Provides biographical information on 800 major living poets in the English language. Includes a critical essay on each poet's work. OL16071574W
Now all roads lead to France Now all roads lead to France Matthew Hollis Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with… OL16302546W
Chaucer's Tale Chaucer's Tale Paul Strohm In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that he has today—far from it. The mi… OL17072513W
Byron's letters and journals, a new selection Byron's letters and journals, a new selection Lord Byron,Richard Lansdown Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. . His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter … OL17311348W
The Oxford companion to Chaucer The Oxford companion to Chaucer Gray, Douglas "Nicknamed the Father of English Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer has long inspired great writers, including Shakespeare. He continues to connect with contemporary audiences through his surprisingly modern d… OL18256273W
Letters of Ted Hughes Letters of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes Overview: Ted Hughes described letter-writing as "excellent training for conversation with the world." These nearly 300 letters-selected from several thousand-show him in all his aspects: poet, husba… OL18753105W
Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser Andrew Hadfield "The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description. OL19670324W
Lives of Uneducated Poets, to which are Added Attempts in Verse Lives of Uneducated Poets, to which are Added Attempts in Verse Jones, John Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. OL19812791W
Philip Larkin Philip Larkin Booth, James In one of the most comprehensive pictures of the poet yet published, James Booth examines the people, the places and the chance encounters that influenced Larkin and shaped his poetry. From Larkin's … OL19988013W
Ted Hughes Ted Hughes Jonathan Bate "Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and eco… OL20018528W
Lives of the poets Lives of the poets Michael Schmidt A dazzling account of the entire history of poetry in the English language -- from the fourteenth century to the present -- by one of the most intelligent and passionate critics in the field. … OL2004345W
John Keats John Keats Stephen Coote John Keats was the last of the great romantics to be born and the first to die. Stephen Coote uses a range of contemporary sources to throw new light on the poems and rediscovers a poet who set his f… OL24274724W
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