The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more
King Henry V by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Aginc ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as ...Show more
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more
Hamlet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: good
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a carefu ...Show more
Faust by JOHANN GOETHE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men: Modern Plays Edition by Reginald Rose
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'New York, summer 1954Criminal Courts BuildingA man is deadThe life of another is at stakeA guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. ...Show more
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the mater ...Show more
Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2 by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King's son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concerned with the pleasures of the tavern world and the company of the ...Show more
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Collection
With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the noto ...Show more
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: very good
Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity ...Show more