Tottel's Miscellany

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• 1557 saw the publication of this ground-breaking volume: the first printed anthology of contemporary poetry in English. The book is built on a foundat... Lees meer

Stanzas on the Death of His Father

Jorge Manrique

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• Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique (c.1440-79) is one of the most celebrated poems in the Spanish language. Written shortly before the... Lees meer

Hesperides

Robert Herrick

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• A reproduction of Herrick's only publication during his lifetime, seen through the press by the author himself in 1648. The book contains more than a ... Lees meer

Poems (1633)

John Donne

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• This volume reproduces John Donne's posthumous - and first - collection of poetry in its original spelling. Lees meer

Selected Poems

Robert Herrick

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• Robert Herrick (1591-1674) was perhaps the greatest poet to have worked in Devon. Born in London, the son of a goldsmith, he studied at Cambridge and ... Lees meer

Selected Poems

William Strode

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• William Strode, born in Plympton, Devon, in the early years of the 17th century, is a little-known poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, but he was ... Lees meer

Selected Poems

Thomas Wyatt

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• Sir Thomas Wyatt is remembered today as one of the most important poets in the English language, and as the man who brought the sonnet into English, w... Lees meer

Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age, in Contemporary English Translations

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Classics | nr. 3
• In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain experienced a literary Renaissance akin to that in England, with great poets, dramatists and novelists establish... Lees meer

Birds, Beasts and Flowers

D H Lawrence

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• Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during... Lees meer

Studies in Classic American Literature

D H Lawrence

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• Studies in Classic American Literature [...] is at once a work of cultural criticism, a study and critique of American myths, a meditation on the rela... Lees meer

Collected Poems

Thomas Carew

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Classics | nr. 22
• Thomas Carew (1595-1640) was, with Robert Herrick, the finest poet of the "tribe of Ben", the poets who gathered around Ben Jonson in the taverns of S... Lees meer

Sordello

Robert Browning

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• A book-length poem that caused great consternation when it first appeared in 1840, 'Sordello' became a byword for poetic difficulty, both because of i... Lees meer

Dramatic Romances

Robert Browning

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• In Browning's bicentenary year, Shearsman publishes several volumes devoted to his work, starting with a collection of his shorter "long" poems, organ... Lees meer

Look! We Have Come Through!

D H Lawrence

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• Lawrence ... describes the poems [in this first collection of his unrhymed poems] as "intended as an essential story, or history, or confession", the ... Lees meer

The Lusiads

Luis Vaz De Camoes, Richard Fanshawe

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Classics | nr. 29
• Camões (ca.1524/25-1580) is the national poet of Portugal, with a status in the Lusophone world akin to that of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes and Goet... Lees meer

Selected Shorter Poems

Luis Vaz De Camoes

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Classics | nr. 30
• Luís Vaz de Camões (ca.1524/25-1580) is reckoned the greatest poet in the Portuguese language, granting him a position in the national literature akin... Lees meer

Our Lady of Pain

Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Classics | nr. 28
• Swinburne was born in 1837 in London and spent his childhood on the Isle of Wight and in Northumberland. He attended Eton and then Balliol College, Ox... Lees meer

Selected Poems

Mary Lady Chudleigh

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• Mary, Lady Chudleigh was a confidante of John Dryden and a leading figure amongst the women writers of her day. In many ways a proto-feminist, while s... Lees meer

Poets of Devon & Cornwall

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• Alexander Barclay, Richard Carew, Humfrey Gifford, Anne Dowriche, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Arthur Gorges, Joseph Hall, John Ford, Robert Herrick, Sidney... Lees meer