Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Jerome J. McGann $18.95
This authoritative edition brings together the complete collection of Byron's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, journals, and conversations - to give the essence of his work and thinking.Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life shocked his...
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience by Tate $17.95
This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his illuminations and lettering from the finest existing example of the original. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake’s poems as he created them. This unique edition is essential for those who love Blake’s work, and also offers an ideal entrance into...
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Pat Rogers $18.95
Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological sequence so that the Moral Essays and Imitations of Horace are restored to their original...
Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies) by David Fairer $80.95
This eagerly awaited annotated anthology reveals the rich variety of poetic output in a period, 1700-1800, that is rapidly growing in popularity among scholars and students alike.
Alexander Pope: A Life by W. W. Norton & Company $25.95
Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times.
The Rape of the Lock (Vintage Classics) by Aubrey Beardsley $9.95
A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors. A hilarious mock epic, this is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature, complete with Aubrey Beardsley’s beautiful illustrations.
The Lives of the Poets: A Selection (Oxford World's Classics) by Roger Lonsdale $24.95
Here is a substantial selection of Samuel Johnson's magisterial and unforgettable portraits of the lives of the English poets of the 17th and 18th centuries. Originally covering the lives of 52 poets, with the primary focus on Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope, Johnson's Lives was described by Thomas Gray as a "compendious story of a whole important age in English literature, told by a great man,...
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Maureen N. McLane $27.00
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical...
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake by Morris Eaves $35.00
An indispensable guide to Blake's ideas and symbols is once again available in paper, with a new foreword and annotated bibliography
The Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) by Roger Lonsdale $25.95
Hailed as a major event (John Carey, Sunday Times), a major anthology: one of the best that Oxford has ever produced (James Fenton, The Times), the most important anthology in recent years (The Economist), and indispensable (Kingsley Amis), Roger Lonsdales The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse is now available in a stylishly redesigned reissue. No previous anthology has succeeded in...