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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Prologue: "It's absurd..." -- I. Fledgling -- One foot off the ground -- With the girls -- "O Sussex!" -- II. Perching -- To the zoo -- Knowsley -- Tribes and species -- Make 'em laugh -- Mountains -- III. Flying -- "Rome is Rome" -- Happy as a hedgehog -- Third person -- Excursions -- Derry down Derry: Nonsense, 1846 -- "Something is about to happen" -- "Calmly, into the dice-box" -- "All that amber" -- IV. Tumbling -- The brotherhood -- Meeting...
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 87
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"As the ultimate example of the Romantic artist, William Blake made radical developments in art technique to communicate his vision. However visual art was just one facet of his achievement. In his famous illuminated books, Blake combined painting, engraving and poetry, some of which are now the most famous in the English language. However, Blake's visual art can be far more readily appreciated, and pictures such as The ancient of days remain a powerful...
Author
Series
Complete works / Lord Byron volume 12
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A very modern biography of John Donne-the poet of love, sex, and death-by bestselling children's book author and superstar academic Katherine Rundell"--
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English...
80) Byron's women
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron - mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary...