In 'Ionica,' William Johnson Cory presents a meticulously crafted and evocative exploration of classical themes interwoven with the nuances of Greek culture and landscape. The poem unfolds as a journey through an idealized Hellenic past, blending rich imagery with lyrical elegance, reflecting Cory's profound engagement with the Classics. His use of vivid descriptions and melodic verse creates a sensory experience that draws the reader into a world steeped in beauty, nostalgia, and philosop...

WILLIAM CORY (Johnson) was born at Torrington in Devonshire, on January 9, 1823. He was the son of Charles William Johnson, a merchant, who retired at the early age of thirty, with a modest competence, and married his cousin, Theresa Furse, of Halsdon, near Torrington, to whom he had long been attached. He lived a quiet, upright, peaceable life at Torrington, content with little, and discharging simple, kindly, neighbourly duties, alike removed from ambition and indolence. William Cory had...

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This collection contains,The Ballad of the White Horse by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Andromeda and Other Poems by Charles Kingsley, Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray, Don Juan by Lord George Gordon Byron, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poetical Sketches by William Blake, Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces by Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems by William Blake, Selec...

Between the years of 1797-1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote what are considered his most important poetic works. Among them are the famous "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan", and "Christabel". Also during this period he wrote his much-heralded 'conversation poems' of which includes "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison", "Frost at Midnight", and "The Nightingale". These great poems can all be found in this volume along with many others. Forty-one poems in all written between 1794 a...

... poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.' Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis glorious celebration of classic poetry features verse from around the English-speaking world. Carefully selected and divided into themed sections, the poems encompass the wealth of human experience - love, death, youth, old age, nature, travel and humour are all included in works that range from the 1500s onwards.A comprehensiv...

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1537, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.Having returned from a second European tour, Twain read...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Afternoon In FebruaryApril DayArrow And The SongArsenal At SpringfieldAuf Wiederseh...

Edited by William KnightWilliam Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was general...

Inspired by the bestselling Delphi Poets Series, this eBook features The World's Greatest Poems, with verses and extracts from poetical plays and seminal epic poems that have shaped the course of poetry over the centuries. From the earliest beginnings of Western literature in Homer's epics, to the Renaissance masterpieces of Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare; from the evocative beauty of the Romantic poets to the brilliance of Yeats, the War Poets and other modern masters, this collecti...

This collection contains the complete poetic works of Wilfred Owen, published in chronological order. It has been carefully formatted for clarity of viewing, and includes a Preface by the Author, and and Introduction by the celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was a friend and contemporary of Wilfred Owen.The collection contains the following poems:To PoesyWritten in a Wood, September 1910My Dearest ColinSonnetLines Writte...

A curated selection of the poems, plays, and works of fiction that Cassandra Clare quotes from in the Shadowhunter Chronicles. Liv Spencer highlights the specific text used in each volume of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices, with selections from Hamlet, A Tale of Two Cities, Tennyson, Dante, and many more! This is the free companion reader to Navigating the Shadow World: The Unofficial Guide to Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments