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The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontë and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of E...

Thomas Gray, the eighteenth century poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University is widely known for his ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Thomas Gray, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gray's life a...

Over many centuries poets have drawn inspiration and solace from the land that surrounds us. From mountain high to valley floor from sea cliffs to sandy shore through wood and field, across rivers, brooks and streams through sunlight, raging storms and the cloak of night these shores have some of the most beautiful natural treasures to be found anywhere.Our poets including William Wordsworth, Robert Bridges and A E Houseman to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Radclyffe Hall and Emily Br...

For many in Europe the focus has shifted West to the Americas both by settlement and by war against the indigenous tribes and then between themselves. Democracy would be re-born by the American War of Independence.In the East, India becomes the stage for further expansion.For our wordsmiths the world had become a wider page on which to write their thoughts.Coleridge, Pope, Southey, Wordsworth speak with lyrical eloquence upon subjects great and small but always from...

Select Poems of Thomas Gray gathers the finest work of a poet whose small canon profoundly altered eighteenth-century English verse. Centered on masterpieces such as "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "The Progress of Poesy," and "The Bard," the collection reveals Gray's command of classical allusion, measured diction, and meditative music. His poetry stands at a pivotal literary threshold: formally indebted to neoclassical order, yet emotionally attuned to solitude, mortality, ruins...

BOSTON, Ralph Waldo Emerson PAUL REVERE'S RIDE, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, Sidney Lanier HYMN, Ralph Waldo Emerson TICONDEROGA, V. B. Wilson GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE, Oliver Wendell Holmes WARREN'S ADDRESS, John Pierpont THE OLD CONTINENTALS, Guy Humphrey McMaster NATHAN HALE, Francis Miles Finch THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL, Will Carleton MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH, William Collins SONG OF MARION'S MEN, William Cullen Bryant TO THE MEMORY OF THE AME...

At first thought, this seems an unlikely area to find fine poetry.The Graveyard Poets, also known as Churchyard Poets or the Boneyard Boys, began in pre-Romantic days with a leaning towards gloom, melancholy and the general decay of churchyards.It should be remembered that in the 18th century some city graveyards were a teeming mass of overcrowding and disease, their country brethren better housed but hardly idylls of worship.What would eventually lead to the Gothic...

When that bright light of recognition, and perhaps a glint of fame, falls upon us then maybe our first assumption is that our moment has at last arrived and, now that it is here, it will never leave us.Of course, as the wise sages remind us, fame is fleeting and for the authors in this volume it has indeed passed, and their works are now but a distant memory in the minds of just a few.We take exception to that. Talent endures. Perhaps styles change, fads come and go, but st...

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

The anthology "Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett" is a compelling collection that vividly illustrates the diverse literary styles and thematic richness of 18th-century British poetry. This collection juxtaposes the reflective musings on human nature of Samuel Johnson with the pastoral elegances found in Thomas Parnell's works. Thomas Gray's command of lyricism and his melancholic odes, coupled with T. Smollett's incisive satire and biting wit, create a tapestry of poet...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on l...