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Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is a scholarly anthology that gathers the raw, oral poetry of the…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

George Gordon Byron

Lord Byron’s *Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage* is a long‑form poem that treats travel as a vehicle for meditation…

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

Robert Herrick

The work is a scholarly edition of Robert Herrick’s poetry, presented in two volumes that retain the original…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry

George Gordon Byron

The volume presents a fragment of Byron’s late‑stage theatrical experiments, a sprawling scene that blends…

India's Love Lyrics

India's Love Lyrics

Laurence Hope

India’s Love Lyrics gathers a series of poems and songs that draw their colour from the sub‑continent’s…

Cover of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume presents the complete oeuvre of Edgar Allan Poe, gathered in five bound parts and indexed for easy…

The Ballad of the White Horse

The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton’s *The Ballad of the White Horse* is an epic‑style poem that treats the legendary King…

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The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem that launches with a bitter clash between the Greek commander Agamemnon and the…

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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

Dante Alighieri

This volume is Longfellow’s English rendering of the first canticle of Dante Alighieri’s three‑part epic, the…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3

George Gordon Byron

The third volume of Lord Byron’s collected works gathers a miscellany of poems, speeches, and occasional…

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

The volume gathers the poetic output of Matthew Arnold, a leading Victorian voice whose work is catalogued…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

George Gordon Byron

The second volume of Lord Byron’s collected poems presents a sprawling, lyrical tableau of his Romantic…

The Aeneid

The Aeneid

Virgil

Virgil’s *Aeneid* opens with the battered remnants of the Trojan fleet drifting toward a hostile coast after…

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Ovid

The work presents the fifth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in English blank verse, offering a faithful…

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Charles Herbert Sylvester

The volume is a mixed‑genre collection that opens with a dramatic, almost theatrical monologue in which a…

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volumes 1 and 2, gathers the young poet’s early…

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Paradise Lost

John Milton

Paradise Lost is an epic poem that sets out to recount the first disobedience of humanity and the ensuing…

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume brings together Geoffrey Chaucer’s celebrated Canterbury Tales and a selection of his…

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

George Gordon Byron

The volume gathers a selection of Byron’s later poetic fragments, epistles, and occasional verses, all drawn…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07

The volume opens with a lively, mock‑heroic poem about the medieval town of Weinsberg, where a king’s wrath…

Cover of The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius
 Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.

The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.

Gaius; Persius; Sulpicia Juvenal; Lucilius

The volume presents a literal English prose rendering of the Roman satirists Juvenian, Persius, Sulpicia, and…

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

Emily Dickinson

The volume gathers the three series of Emily Dickinson’s poems into a single, uninterrupted text, presenting…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

George Gordon Byron

The volume gathers a series of Byron’s later poems and fragments, each opening with a solemn meditation on…

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1

Alexander Pope

The volume presents a scholarly examination of Alexander Pope’s correspondence, focusing on the tangled…