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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james sambrook”
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  • William Cobbett

    by James Sambrook ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Cobbett is best known today as the author of Rural Rides, but in his lifetime, he was an enormously productive political and economic journalist and writer of books in many fields, and he is important to students in a number of disciplines, ranging from literature, through politics and economics, to social and political history. Originally published in 1973 this book presents an account of Cobbett ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • The Eighteenth Century

    The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789

    by James Sambrook ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    This is an impressive and lucid survey of eighteenth-century intellectual life, providing a real sense of the complexity of the age and of the cultural and intellectual climate in which imaginative literature flourished. It reflects on some of the dominant themes of the period, arguing against such labels as 'Augustan Age', 'Age of Enlightenment' and 'Age of Reason', which have been attached to ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • William Cowper

    The Task and Selected Other Poems

    by James Sambrook, William Cowper ...
    Series series Longman Annotated Texts
    Having previously suffered neglect as a result of Pope's dominance of the period, William Cowper (1731-1800) has now become a far more important figure in eighteenth-century literature. Following the successful format of the series, Professor Sambrook's edition consists of a comprehensive, contextual editor's introduction together with substantial annotation on the page. The Task (1785) is the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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  • Donne: Everyman's Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596. He was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper (later Lord Chancellor), in 1598, but forfeited his worldly prospects when he secretly married Ann More, Lady Egerton's niece, in 1601; he was dismissed by Egerton and briefly ... Read more

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  • A Journal of the Plague Year

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the ... Read more

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  • Lyrical Ballads

    1798 and 1802

    by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • John Donne: Collected Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Read more

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  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    And Select Poems

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance ... Read more

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  • The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

    by Alexander Pope ...
    Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope's work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic 'The Rape of the Lock ... Read more

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  • William Cowper: Everyman Poetry

    by William Cowper ...
    A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce ... Read more

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  • The Works Of Alexander Pope

    by Alexander Pope ...
    Five classic works by Alexander Pope in one collection with an active table of contents.Works include:An Essay on CriticismAn Essay on ManPoetical Works of Pope: Volume IPoetical Works of Pope: Volume IIThe Rape of the Lock and Other Poems ... Read more

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