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Suffrage Songs and Verses, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a collection of 25 poems which advocates the suffragette movement and women’s rights. Published in 1911, the poetry antho ...

"Should we not laugh to see a horse in corsets? The time is coming when we shall so laugh to see a woman." - The Forerunner Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In thi ...

The majority of the poems in this collection ‘The Poems and Verses’ are a classic collection of poetic works by Charles Dickens. They are brought together in this anthology after a ...

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate...'It is one of the most memorable and memorised lines of poetry of all time. But there is no need ...

Have you ever spent an evening in the English countryside and marveled at the beauty around you? In ‘The Pageant of Summer’, Victorian British author Richard Jefferies takes you on ...

“månen lockar mig att dra ut och härja komma nära, sminket i plastpåsegulbleka strumpor höga klackar vid perrongen, doft av aska under skallen ochkäkarna, det som var tänder nu vas ...

Vid Leopolds graf är en dikt från 1829 av Esaias Tegnér. ESAIAS TEGNÉR [1782-1846] var en svensk poet som närmast nått status som nationalskald. Tegnér gjorde en snabb akademisk ka ...

Svea är en patriotisk dikt av Esaias Tegnér sprungen ur Sveriges förlust av Finland. 1811 mottog författaren Svenska Akademiens stora pris för dikten, men den offentliggjordes förs ...

Frithiofs saga är ett verk bestående av tjugofyra dikter - riddarepos - med olika versmått. Verket, som betraktas som Esaias Tegnérs största, är en parafras på den fornisländska be ...

Här samlas ett urval av Esaias Tegnérs främsta dikter, bland annat genombrottsdikten »Svea« och flera av hans berömda tal. ESAIAS TEGNÉR [1782-1846] var en svensk poet som närmast ...

While she might be best known as the author of ‘The Age of Innocence’ (adapted for film, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daniel Day-Lewis), Edith Wharton wrote an extensive ran ...

Good and evil, right and wrong, innocence and sinfulness, redeemed and fallen.'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is a classic book of two halves - encapsulated by the extended ...

Discover the English writer of romantic poems, Christina Rossetti's extensive collection with this comprehensive anthology. Spanning ‘The Prince’s Progress’, following the story of ...

As an aristocrat by birth, Violet Jacob's decision to write poetry in Scots dialect risked ridicule from her peers, who considered it vulgar. Most others would struggle to take her ...

Dive into one of the most important figures in American poetry, Emily Dickinson’s iconic collection. Characterised by three distinct periods, a sentimental tone lies in her work da ...

Poetry can inspire, evoke, provoke and transport the reader. But this collection of 39 poems did even more - it broke barriers. This collection was written by Phillis Wheatley, the ...

It took the publication of the lengthy work 'The Ring and the Book' to gain Robert Browning recognition in his lifetime. But today, the Victorian poet is more admired for these, hi ...

It is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, 'Leaves ...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; Merry and Pippin; Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy...great duos often help to make great literature. So when two soon-to-be luminaries of the English Ro ...

Join Aurora on her travels from Florence to London - a coming of age journey full of trials and tribulations. Spanning 9 books, Browning’s poetic blank verse evokes classical and m ...

Poetry lovers look no further! Elizabeth Barret Browning’s passionate collection of 44 love sonnets is all you'll ever need. Following the Italian model made popular by Petrarch, B ...

»En av det engelska språkets mest firade och kontroversiella efterkrigspoeter.« Margaret Atwood»Dikterna känns i kroppen och de stannar kvar i tanken på ett sätt som endast riktigt ...

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) föddes i County Derry, på den nordirländska landsbygden. Hans första större diktsam­ling,Death of a Naturalist, utkom 1966 och följdes av poesi, kritik oc ...

You won't fail to be captured by one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s greatest books 'Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems'.<br><br>Religious and spiritual, the studies and poems reflec ...