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  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

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  • Pearl

    A New Verse Translation in Modern English

    Pearl is an intricate fourteenth-century poem written by one of the greatest Middle English poets—the anonymous artist who also gave us Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This medieval masterpiece presents the meditative Dream Vision of a father (the Dreamer) mourning the loss of a young daughter (his Pearl).Having recently translated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to critical acclaim, John Ridland ... Read more

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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    A New Verse Translation in Modern English

    by John Ridland ...
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the anonymous Gawain-Poet (or Pearl-Poet) is, like Beowulf, one of the greatest classics of English literature. Hailed as the finest Arthurian romance, this technically brilliant tale of enchantment, faith, temptation, and chivalry is tautly constructed, with a wonderfully rich vocabulary and vivid language that blends sophisticated atmosphere with psychological ... Read more

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  • Herbert: Poems

    Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection.Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to pattern poems, the shapes of which reveal ... Read more

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  • Aurora Leigh

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the ... Read more

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  • Lord Rochester

    Edited by Paddy Lyons ...
    The archetypal Restoration rake, Rochester wrote poems of love, debauchery, erotic obsession and impotence full of honesty and raw power. ... Read more

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  • Fréteval

    by Mike Donati ...
    Welcome to comics show by Cédric and Max with Fréteval médieval adventures. Fréteval is a knight, a man lost and disapear. But he wants one thing: Find the way! You can read "Soul Warriors" after, a little pursuit comics by TCG! Free all publics, 21 pages. ... Read more

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  • The Man in the Moon : Anthology of Poems

    This is a collection of poems that I have compiled over a six month period to provide a "time-lapse" record of my existence. Things I have felt, thought about, everyday occurrences to the more bizarre events. Hobbies, duties, spirituality and an awareness of environment in all its forms will hopefully be conveyed here. If you have as much pleasure reading these as I have writing them, or if they ... Read more

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  • Rays

    by Richard Price ...
    Centered on recurring themes of sleep and sleeplessness, this delicate collection of poetry explores the nuances of human relationships. Beginning provocatively with a "translation" of Shakespeare's 18th sonnet, the poems offer witty, tender, and lyrical reflections on the intricate suffusion of desire within both private and public forms of expression. Exploring the consequences of passion, this ... Read more

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  • If We Could Speak Like Wolves

    by Kim Moore ...
    If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, and was selected as one of the Independent's Books of the Year in 2012. ... Read more

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  • London Romance

    by Nowaki Nei ...
    Series series London Romance
    Ann Hardy is gentle, loyal young maid who starts working for a slightly eccentric middle-aged gentleman named Victor Glenn who lost his beloved wife to disease. Soon, Ann's sweet smile wins Victor over, and the two gradually become closer... but between them stands the staunch wall of "social status."This is a sweet, gentle love story about a teenage maid and a middle-aged gentleman, set in late ... Read more

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