William Cowper was an English hymnodist and poet, most notably renowned for his contributions to early romantic poetry. We are proud to republish this scarce book with an introductory biography of the author."
The book was originally published under the title Episodes Before Thirty, and Mr. Blackwood has considerably revised the text for the present edition.
Contents Include: Wessex Poems and Other Verses Poems of the Past and the Present Poems of Pilgrimage Miscellaneous Poems Imitations Retrospect Time's Laughingstocks More Love Lyrics A Set of Country songs Pieces Occasional and Various ...
In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.
Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The five plays in this volume, Sejanus, The Alchemist, Volpone, Every Man in his Humour, and Bartholomew Fair - fairly represent the range and variety of Jonson's work as a playwright.
Meditations on ethics and life by Marcus Aurelius.
'As well conceived and done, as rich in observation of the world, as profound where it needs to be profound, as any novel of recent writing.' Outlook. - 'This is no common book. It is a book which not merely touches vital things.
Contents Include: Foreword by The Right Rev.
Sir Charles Firth's biography, first published in 1900, presents such an account, and in the years that have passed since the book was written it has become generally recognized as a standard work, soundly informative as history and worthy ...
It is so good that at this moment, late at night in a London club, I feel like "cashing in" all my available resources, abandoning my home and family, and starting out to sail round the world in a thirty foot boat, so seaworthy that it won ...
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Lectures on the Epistle of Jude
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Other selections from this very representative volume include John Gower's translation of The Festivals, Zachary Caitlin's, John Gower's, and Wye Saltonstall's Letters from Exile, and Thomas Underdown's Invective against Ibis.
The Orthodox Devil - The Parson and the Shoemaker - Can God Revive His Work - Becky Murgatroyd Speaks her Mind - Thou Fool - Becky Murgatroyd goes Home - A Lier - The Old Man's Tale -The Saved Soul that Lost - Three Hpeless things in Gods ...
Contents Include - The Johannine Epistles in the Early Church - Background and Settings of the First Epistle - Character and Contents of the First Epistle - Relation of the First Epistle of the Fourth Gospel - Character and Contents of the ...
These three works form the chief sources of the saint's life and the beginnings of the Franciscan Order which he founded in 1212.
The first of Dostoevsky's masterworks, "Crime and Punishment" presents the powerful story of Raskolnikov, who reasons that intellectually "superior" men like himself can and must transcend conventional moral law.
Contents Include: Janus - To Twelfth Night - Jasmine - Trouble at Twilight - Expressions at the Market - The Jays - The British School - The Fan Tod - Young February - Winter Proud - Lent Passes - Wills and Testaments - The Starling's Nest ...