The Romantic Poets, Paperback

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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. '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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Reducere. In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggest...

Dead Birds Of New Zealand.The Hotly Anticipated Debut Full-Length Poetry Collection By Christian Czaniecki. 86 Pages of tightly crafted, surreal, f...

Reducere. It can be tricky to find the perfect words to celebrate your perfect day. You may want a poem for your wedding to celebrate love, friendship, commi...

Reducere. "In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and se...