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1) Shelley
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English
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822), one of the major English Romantic poets, never lived to see the full extent of his success and influence. His long poems became immensely popular and acclaimed. Symonds's biography is a fascinating portrait of Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, as well as a record of his association with John Keats and Lord Byron.
3) Ben Jonson
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English
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English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572—1637) is considered the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This study of Jonson's life, "First (And Second) Period of Manhood" and "Old Age", and work, "Dramatic Style" and "Masterpieces", offers an insightful look at the author of the celebrated plays Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair.
4) Sidney
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English
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This volume of the English Men of Letters is an evocative biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554—1586), the poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. Learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive, Sidney was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser's Astrophel.
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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A master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer, Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his own flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists. From Florence and Pisa to Siena and Rome, Cellini portrays a tumultuous period—the age of Galileo,
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Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...