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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Longman Anthology of British Literature
David Damrosch, Stuart Sherman, Christopher Baswell · 1,079 pages
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors
M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt · 1,214 pages
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
Norton Anthology of Poetry
Alexander W. Allison · 1,479 pages
Offers over 1400 poems by more than 200 poets written in English from early medieval time to the present.
The Complete Works
William Shakespeare · 1,248 pages
First published in 1906 this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W• J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernized, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs. The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C. Walter Hodges,
Six Centuries of English Poetry from Tennyson to Chaucer: Typical Selections from the Great Poets (1892)
James Baldwin
The Portable Dante
Dante Alighieri · 662 pages
Includes "The Divine Comedy," "The New Life," and other selected poems, prose, and letters accompanied by biographical and introductory sections.
The Norton Anthology Of Literature By Women: The Traditions In English
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar · 2,452 pages
Contains selections written by over 150 women authors from English-speaking countries. Ranges from the fourteenth century to the present.
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost
Harold Bloom · 1,008 pages
Literature. The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Twelfth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen · 1,447 pages
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
Kevin Crossley-Holland · 308 pages
Good Poems for Hard Times
Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noel Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy · 356 pages
From the beloved creator of A Prairie Home Companion, a timely, thoughtful collection of poems that provide solace and wisdomWhen Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with" inspired thousands
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes · 498 pages
The Top 500 Poems
William Harmon · 1,132 pages
The pop title is right out of Billboard (the publisher must think poetry needs all the crossover it can get), but the collection is quite terrific--not necessarily the greatest poems (best to avoid that can of worms), but the 500 English-language poems that have appealed most often to 400 contemporary editors, critics, and poets for inclusion in their own widely disparate anthologies, which were i
The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
John Lithgow · 304 pages
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to ap
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Hazel Felleman · 670 pages
An anthology of excellent poetry, much of which is best read aloud
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
Elise Paschen, Rebekah Presson Mosby · 352 pages
In 2001, Sourcebooks MediaFusion reinvigorated the way Americans experience poetry with Poetry Speaks, a book and three-CD combination featuring noted poets from Tennyson to Plath reading their own work. This remarkable anthology, a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a New York Times extended list bestseller, was lauded by Publishers Weekly as having "the potential to draw more readers to poetry tha