A new contemporary look for Christopher Ricks's widely praised anthology
A selection that shows Victorian verse at its best and most inspiring
560 poems by 115 poets
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New contemporary look for a bestselling collection of ghost stories
An enjoyable and wide-ranging anthology including some of the most frightening ghost stories ever written
Writers included: M ... Read more
A key - and much studied - period of English literature
Gives the most comprehensive picture of the period available in a single volume
Represents previously neglected aspects of seventeenth-ce ... Read more
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Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s. However, in a literary career spann ... Read more
A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It sh ... Read more
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I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.'
This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire ... Read more
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I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.'
Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama fro ... Read more
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I will do as the Senate decrees.'
These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in t ... Read more
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Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.'
Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps ... Read more
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Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and tr ... Read more
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