Classic and pre-20th century poetry

'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

The Bronte sisters lives and works have become modern-day cultural touchstones.

In October 2013 Felix Dennis was told he had terminal cancer.

This anthology of William Ernest Henley's poetry features some of the most beautiful and deeply moving pieces in the Victorian writer's collection.

This book contains Percy Byssche Shelley's 'Epipsychidion', a seminal poetic work published by the prolific English romantic poet in 1821.

This volume contains a complete collection of poetry written by the seminal Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelly.

Originally published in 1912, Songs of Innocence, was written by the legendary William Blake (1757 - 1827), and illustrated with the stunning drawings of Honor Appleton.

Christina Rossetti's famous narrative poem is a gothic fantasy, dangling two young sisters before sin and death.

'Peer Gynt', written by Henrik Johan Ibsen, is a five-act play, and one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays of all time.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement.

A collection of beautifully written poems, perfect for any fan of poetry.

This vintage book is the third volume of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1867 translation of Dante Alighieri's "e;The Divine Comedy"e;.

This book contains a 1821 pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, on the death of John Keats.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

One of Shakespeare's most compelling historical tragedies, Julius Caesar explores the chilling events of political ambition and betrayal leading up to and following the assassination of the infamous Roman emperor.

First published in 1897, "e;The History of Reynard the Fox"e; is a collection of poems by Frederick Startridge Ellis.

Patrick Reginald Chalmers (1872-1942) was an Irish writer and banker.

Paradiso is the third and final part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy and describes Dante's journey through heaven.

Purgatorio is the second part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy and describes Dante's climb up the Mount of Purgatory.

Inferno is the first part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy.

Aeneas-the son of a human and Venus, the goddess of love-escapes the siege of Troy with a boat full of other Trojans, and sails for Italy where he is destined to found the city of Rome.

King Hrothgar of Denmark has a problem: though his land prospers, his great mead-hall is plagued nightly by a horrible beast, Grendel, that pillages and kills his men.

Paradiso is the third and final part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy and describes Dante's journey through heaven.

Purgatorio is the second part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy and describes Dante's climb up the Mount of Purgatory.

Inferno is the first part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy.

Aeneas-the son of a human and Venus, the goddess of love-escapes the siege of Troy with a boat full of other Trojans, and sails for Italy where he is destined to found the city of Rome.

A companion to the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton's Paradise Regained describes the temptation of Christ.

Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, longs to return home to his kingdom in Ithaca, where a horde of suitors (who believe the long-absent Odysseus to be dead) are courting his beloved wife.

The tenth and final year of the Trojan War comes to its climactic end in this infamous Greek epic.

King Hrothgar of Denmark has a problem: though his land prospers, his great mead-hall is plagued nightly by a horrible beast, Grendel, that pillages and kills his men.

A companion to the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton's Paradise Regained describes the temptation of Christ.

Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, longs to return home to his kingdom in Ithaca, where a horde of suitors (who believe the long-absent Odysseus to be dead) are courting his beloved wife.

The tenth and final year of the Trojan War comes to its climactic end in this infamous Greek epic.

John Milton's epic poem describes the fall of humankind and the war between heaven and hell.

An oddly diverse group of twenty-nine people meet at an inn.

John Milton's epic poem describes the fall of humankind and the war between heaven and hell.

An oddly diverse group of twenty-nine people meet at an inn.

"e;David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day.

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My aim is to take familiar things and makePoetry of them, and do it in such a wayThat it looks as if it was as easy as could beFor anybody to do it .

"e;There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousand descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship.

After winning the Trojan War, the great hero Odysseus embarks on a journey back home to Ithaca.

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.

The great British epic, a work of rich and fascinating poetry and one of the most enduring books ever created.

This vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu'.

'Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain .

From romance to rejection, the complex themes of love and desire have inspired some of the greatest poetry ever written.