The Romantic Poets

Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and nat...

A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greate...

Reducere. The word "romantic" has so many varied meanings that C. S. Lewis quipped it should be deleted from our vocabulary. Yet, from the perspective of Eng...

A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Stanley Pl...

DescriptionStranger Than Fiction brings together, for the first time, Mike Jay's distinctive and immensely readable forays into the twilight zones ...

One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural w...

One of Dickens's most haunting and bizarre novels, The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of "Little Nell" and her persecution by the grotesque and le...

Description"Cherished Reader, Should you come upon Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini . . . consider yourself quite fortunate indeed. . ...

Reducere. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend...

This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This, the second of the two vol...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will b...

Reducere. GERMAN ROMANTIC POETRY Goethe - Novalis - Heine - Hölderlinby Carol Appleby A study of German Romantic poetry, focusing on four of the great poets ...

The timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biography of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

Reducere. NOVALIS: HYMNS TO THE NIGHT A new edition of Novalis' Hymns To the Night, and Spiritual Songs, translated by George Macdonald, with an introduction...

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than "negative capability." Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about i...

In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems; his stature as one of the foremost poets of the Romantic movement r...

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolitionPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Matt SandlerNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2020Dimensions:...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a ...

The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Poets include the legend...

This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S...

Reducere. In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they ma...

Reducere. 'Art of seeing', as Jeremy Hooker exercises it in these essays written over some thirty years, consists of acts of attention to a range of poets an...

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a masterly prose work by one of Italy's most celebrated poets, and perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the Romant...

(In the original French.) "Gaspard de la Nuit, " Louis Bertrand's classic work of poetic and fantastic literature, combines the haunting gothic ima...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the result of 20 years of reflection on the part of the author on the enduring afterlife of one of England's greatest Romantic p...

Reducere. Although he is best known in the United States for his theater works, Bertolt Brecht is considered one of the greatest of modern German poets. He i...

In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile...

DescriptionDISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic ...

Reducere. Giacomo Leopardi (Recanati June 29, 1798 - Naples June 14, 1837) was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. He is considered one ...

Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 19...

Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern for...

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spir...

Reducere. Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study...

DescriptionProfoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919...

Reducere. E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized...

DescriptionContaining a stunning array of romantic paintings, this book brings together two important aspects of Victorian culture--the Pre-Raphael...

Show that special someone how much they mean to you. Writers and poets have long looked for the perfect way to say "I love you". This charming book...

Reducere. In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life's most difficult questions--the meaning of life, the nature ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Poem relates the experiences ...

Reducere. "Nicholas Skaldetvind weaves through his verse a voice that is immediately and delightfully contemporary at the same time threads allusions to the ...

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his ...

Reducere. Natasha crede in stiinta si fapte. Nu in soarta, nu in destin sau vise devenite realitate. Nu e genul de fata care intalneste un tip dragut pe o st...

DescriptionOne of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively s...

Reducere. Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) is a collection of sonnets by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written between 1845 and 1846, Sonnets fr...

From 1815 to 1823 the Italian influence on English literature was at its zenith. While English tourists flocked to Italy, a pervasive Italianism co...

Reducere. One of the most creative and individual poets America has produced, Walt Whitman was also a prolific diarist, note-taker, and essayist whose intima...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a ...

Reducere. A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition....

Reducere. DescriptionThe Turin born Guido Gozzano was the first and finest representative of the Crepuscolari, the poets of the twilight. Before his tragical...

Reducere. The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England...

Reducere. Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective--celebrating their ...

DescriptionFor Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they ...

Reducere. Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. The present volume is his best known work, first p...

Hyperion: A Romance (1839) is a novel by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although he is known predominately as one of the leading American poets of the...

Reducere. Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for ...

Reducere. In this seemingly loveless world of ours, we might wonder if true love is attainable. Is it real, or is it perhaps a dancing illusion captured on H...

DescriptionKeep the most romantic words of your favorite Shakespearean heroes and heroines right in your pocket with this tiny quote book. From his...

Reducere. Guillaume Faye was a visionary and a prophet. Like the damned poets for which romantic France is famous, he saw what others refused to see, and he ...

Reducere. Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four h...

Reducere. Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four h...

Reducere. At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming o...

Reducere. Gide, in this first English translation, defended a poet named Oscar Wilde when other poets threatened to wreck Wilde's life and attempted to show ...

Reducere. Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fa...

One of the most famous poets and playwrights of all time, William Shakespeare is known for his romantic poetry, powerful prose, and insightful musi...

Reducere. Obsessive thoughts, erratic mood swings, insomnia, loss of appetite, recurrent and persistent images and impulses, superstitious or ritualistic com...

Reducere. "My Heart is Like a Singing Bird - Selected Bird Poems of Christina Rossetti" contains a fantastic collection of beautiful nature poetry by English...

Reducere. An exciting repository of the tales of an empire that pre-dates the solar system's recorded history. A spectacular homage of ten 'romantic tales of...

Reducere. Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) wrote L'Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs) in 1869. One of the greatest French novelists, poets, playwrights and soci...

If Brit Washburn were a painter she would be like Vermeer, following a certain slant of illumination into a dimly lit interior, drawing our attenti...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Novices of Sais is a Romantic meld of poetry, philosophy, and transcendental journey. Revolutionary yet profoundly simple at once, N...