Download or read book A Treasury of English Verse Classic Reprint written by Adam Luke Gowans and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of English Verse God grant me grace my 0 God! Preserve my mother In strength and health for many a year; And, 0! Preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And, 0! Reserve my brothers both From e doin s and from sloth, And may we ways love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother: And still, 0 Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my great sleep I may Awake to Thy eternal day! Amen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse Classic Reprint written by Frederic Lawrence Knowles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse T H E selections in this book are gathered from American magazines, during the period from 1905 to 1917, which embrace the editor's studies and summaries of contemporary poetry that have appeared in the boston evening tran script. The collection thus in part antedates the present vogue in poetry, while representing the various qualities and schools of the poetic revival in its progress. The magazines, it is clearly wished to be understood, have been the source from which the material is taken. Some of the poems have gone into the authors' books, but a good many remain buried in the files of the various magazines an ill-deserved fate. It may not seem inappropriate, levying as the editor has upon the late Francis Palgrave's fortunately descriptive title for his anthologies of English songs and lyrics, to call this col lection, a golden treasury of magazine verse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Treasury of English Literature Vol 1 written by Kate M. Warren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of English Literature, Vol. 1: Selected and Arranged With Translations and Glossaries; Origins to Eleventh Century The present volume consists of English prose and verse up to the time of William the Conqueror. Among this early work that of Cynewulf, the most remarkable and individual Old English poet known to us by name, is represented with as much fullness as could be allowed in these limited pages. It may not here be out of place to remind readers of Tenny son's fine rendering of the Battle of Brunanburh, of which poem only a fragment could be given in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Lovers Treasury of Verse Classic Reprint written by John White Chadwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lovers Treasury of Verse While giving authors' names in full in the table of contents, we have with the separate poems sometimes used other forms when they have a more familiar sound. Our gratitude is due, and is hereby expressed, for the kindness of many authors and publishers in allowing us the use of their poems and their pub lications: to Charles Scribner's Sons for the poems of Eugene F ield and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge; to Roberts Brothers for Emily Dickinson's and many others and especially to Houghton, Mitflin, Co., on whose editions of various poets, both American and English, we have drawn with no illiberal hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Treasury of Seventeenth Century English Verse written by H. J. Massingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of Seventeenth Century English Verse: From the Death of Shakespeare to the Restoration (1616-1660) Waller, Herbert, Marvell and Donne, except for two or three or four poems of each which are as familiar in anthologies as are many of Milton and Herrick. I have therefore excluded from these pages such poems as Go, lovely rose, Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, W'hoe'er she be - That not impossible She, Ask me no more, where Jove bestows, Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, They are all gone into the world of light, Well then, I now do plainly see, The Bermudas, and their like. It has been a difficult business, and some readers will think I ought to have omitted more poems than I have, others less. The whole process of collecting these poems has been both a lengthy and a difficult one, and if I have not pleased (to beg the question), it has not been for want of trying. Since, again, this period has not received its fair share of appreciation, I have found it necessary to write short biographical, bibliographical, explanatory and critical notes to its poets and anonymous poems. For the anthologist, I agree, silence is best - where he tramps the turnpike road. Biographical notices of well-known poets I have dispensed with and the others are informal and purely general, except where some interesting or enter taining detail or quotation from Anthony Wood and other biographers called for admission. Spelling is debateable ground, but I have modernized it, except where rhyme or metre said no. I have also refused to spell aorists and past participles without the e - thus damn'd since there is no reason for it at all, and when the ed is an extra syllable, it is indicated ed.' There is no difference in inflection and structure between seventeenth century and modern spelling, and to preserve the former is little else than an external archaism. For the text, I have gone to accredited modern editions of these poets, where they exist; where not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Oxford Treasury of English Literature Vol 1 written by Grace Eleanor Hadow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oxford Treasury of English Literature, Vol. 1: Old English to Jacobean Sackville. But in the first place the early lyrics are difficult to read, and all the best of them have been made accessible in the Oxford Book of English Verse. It has therefore seemed enough for our purpose to select those which most clearly exhibit the different modes of expression and to leave the task of further investigation to the reader. In the second place Grower and Lydgate are absolutely necessary as offsets to Chaucer: and the examples quoted from them have been selected with as much reference to his work as to their own real interest and value. And thirdly, Sackville, needed for a due appreciation of Spenser, deserves full inclusion on his own account, both for the severity of his style and for the special way in which he illustrates the effect of the Italian Renaissance. Indeed we are far more concerned to regret the poets whom we have been obliged to omit than to apologize for any whose writings we have here inserted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Golden Treasury of Longer Poems written by Ernest Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Treasury of Longer Poems: Selected Edited This volume of longer poems is the natural successor to the two anthopologies of songs and lyrics and the ballad book in the same library. It does not apply too rigidly its measure of length, being intended to take up the line of English verse at the point where the others paused, to maintain the record and make it of a piece with the rest. There are poems that are still lyrical, like Drayton's "Agincourt," and others, like Chaucer's "Knightes Tale," which show the sustained narrative power of English verse. Again there are poems, like Parnell's "Hermit," which knit up afresh the old ballad tradition of "Chevy Chase" and "Clerk Saunders." There are noble elegies. too; and tributes of poet to poet - "Adonais" and Ben Jonson's lines to the Beloved Memory of Shakespeare, while the English love of place and of Nature is heard again and again in its pages. In all this variety, the main purpose is to show the great succession of the English poets who wrote, as Coleridge says, with A light in sound, a soundlike power in light, Rhythm in all thought, and joyance everywhere. It keeps on the whole close to the recognised track. It does not forget the great prose writers, like Swift and Dr. Johnson, who influenced verse. But chiefly it upholds the princely line, in which Chaucer, Spenser, Marvell, Milton, Ben Jonson, Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Pope, Goldsmith, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the masters and the great maintainers. In the shadow of their greater fame stand other poets worthy of remembrance, on whom as it were the true tradition took hold - men who were not great poets but who yet contributed to the rich store. Such were Joseph Warton, whose "Grave of King Arthur" is rescued from comparative forgetfulness, and Shenstone, whose "Schoolmistress" is the reminder of an old and pleasant mode of rural art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language Classic Reprint written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language This book in its progress has recalled often to my memory a man with whose friendship we were once honoured, to whom no region of English Literature was unfamiliar, and who, whilst rich in all the noble gifts of Nature, was most eminently distinguished by the noblest and the rarest, - just judgment and high hearted patriotism. It would have been hence a peculiar pleasure and pride to dedicate what I have endeavoured to make a true national Anthology of three centuries to Henry Hallam. But he is beyond the reach of any human tokens of love and reverence and I desire therefore to place before it a name united with his by associations which, whilst Poetry retains her hold on the minds of Englishmen, are not likely to be forgotten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language: Selected and Arranged With Notes It would obviously have been invidious to apply the standard aimed at in this Collection to the ving. Nor, even in the cases where this might be done without ofience, does it apfir wise to attempt to anticipate the verdict of the turs on our contempo raries. Should the booklast, .poemsbytwnyson. B ant, Clare. Lowell. And others, will no doubt claim and obtain their lace amo the best. But the Editor trusts that is will be leigeoted by other hands, and in days far distant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Book of Verse from Langland to Kipling written by James Cruickshanks Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Verse From Langland to Kipling: Being a Supplement to the Golden Treasury The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes had some poetry of their own even before they quitted their homes in Low Germany. They had the Epic and the Lay, specimens of which survive in Beowulf and the F igbt at Finnsburgb. Left in heathendom they might have evolved a poetry of native myth and legend, like the Norse. But Christian missionaries from Rome soon brought them under the sway of an older civilization and a loftier religion; and thenceforth the anglo-saxon poets, though they could still sing at times of battle and adventure, devoted them selves in the main to humble paraphrase of the Bible story. All this, however, was in a tongue and idiom as strange to us as German, so that poetry written before the Conquest IS called anglo-saxon rather than English. Out of the welter that followed the Conquest a new nation emerged, with new habits of thought and speech, blended of anglo-saxon and N orman-f rench - in a word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Treasury of English Literature written by Kate M. Warren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of English Literature: From the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century; Selected and Arranged With Translations and Glossaries The Editor has made the translations and glossaries attached to the Old and Middle English specimens, but for some details of arrangement and type she wishes to confess her debt to Mr. Quiller-couch, Whose delightful Oxford Book of English Verse has given her suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book English Verse Classic Reprint written by William James Linton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Verse We could have read Dr. Goldsmith's Traveller, or a Prospect Of Society, and if we had done so we could not but have felt the spell of his frank and manly genius. We might have been prompted to make his acquaintance, if we had chanced to be in London at the time, and perhaps the acquaintance Of his bullying friend and patron, the great Dr. Johnson, who, if he had taken a fancy to us, after a good dinner at the Mitre Tavern, might have asked us to visit him at his lodgings in Bolt Court, where we would have seen his strange menagerie of pensioners - Robert Levett, prae. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Golden Treasury written by Francis T. Palgrave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Treasury: Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged With Notes Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Treasury of English Verse New and Old written by Arthur Simons Collins and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treasury of English Literature Vol 4 written by Kate M. Warren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of English Literature, Vol. 4: Bacon to Milton This book is the fourth of a series of six volumes which form, all together, an anthology of English verse and prose from the earliest time up to Burns. The whole has been already published in one volume under the title of A Treasury of English Literature, but for the convenience of students and classes who may wish to study separately a particular epoch, this edition in six books has been prepared. The selections in each volume of the series represent a period of literature, and, so far, form a whole. For an account of the aims of the complete anthology readers are referred to the Editor's Preface which, together with Mr. Stop ford Brooke's Introduction, is printed at the beginning of this book. The present volume begins with the Authorized Version of the Bible and ends with Milton. It will be seen that prose now takes a more prominent place than in the earlier books. An age which produced such prose writers as Lord Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Jeremy Taylor and Bunyan, to name only these four, may be forgiven if its poets (always excepting Milton, whose soul was, like a star and dwelt lost by degrees the Eliza bethan charm and developed those metaphysical qualities which were soon to bring about, for a time, the death of true poetry. But the metaphysical poets included in this volume are of a high order, and sometimes peculiarly beautiful to see them at their worst, and to understand why they came to an end, the reader should consult Johnson's Life of Cowley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 1900 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selections for Oral Reading Classic Reprint written by Claude Moore Fuess and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections for Oral Reading IN the preparation of this volume many standard col lections have been consulted, including Palgrave's Golden Treasury, The Oxford Book of English Verse, Ward's Eng lish Poets, Craik's English Prose, and Carpenter's Ameri can Prose, besides many Readers and Speakers. Special acknowledgment is due the following publishers: to Harper and Brothers, for permission to use the selection from Hardy's Return of the Native; to Charles Scribner's Sons, for the privilege of printing the two selections from Stevenson; and to G. P. Putnam's Sons, for the right to include a passage from Mr. A. C. Benson's From a College Window. The editor takes this opportunity to thank the many friends who have contributed valuable advice and criticism as to the arrangement and organization of the book, notably Dean Francis H. Stoddard of New York University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
