British and Irish poetry before 1780

9 books

An Essay on CriticismAlexander Pope · 1711An annotated 1711 edition of Alexander Pope's verse essay offering precepts on criticism and poetry, prefaced with a biographical sketch of the poet and his life and works.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Paradise LostJohn Milton · 1667A 1667 epic poem in ten books by John Milton retelling humanity's fall from Eden. It opens in Hell, where Satan and his rebel angels, newly cast down from Heaven, plot revenge against God.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Shakespeare's SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare · 1609A 1609 collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare on themes of beauty, time, mortality, love, and procreation, urging a young man to marry and have children so his beauty lives on through offspring and verse.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)Richard Morris · 1864This is Richard Morris's 1864 scholarly edition of the Middle English alliterative romance poem Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, re-edited from a British Museum manuscript with an introduction, outline of the story, and glossary for readers.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund Spenser · 1590An edited school edition of Book I of Edmund Spenser's allegorical epic poem The Faerie Queene, first published in 1590, with an introduction and notes by George Armstrong Wauchope covering the Elizabethan age, Spenser's life, the poem's allegory, and its verse form.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Canterbury Tales, and Other PoemsGeoffrey ChaucerA collection of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, edited by D. Laing Purves for general readers, featuring The Canterbury Tales alongside shorter poems such as Troilus and Cressida and The House of Fame, presented with modernized spelling, explanatory notes, and biographical material.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Poetical Works of John MiltonJohn Milton · 1900A 1900 edition of John Milton's collected English and Italian poetry, reprinted from the earliest printed texts, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, the minor poems, sonnets, and Psalm translations, with a preface by Rev. H. C. Beeching.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Rape of the Lock, and Other PoemsAlexander Pope · 1714An edited collection of Alexander Pope's poems, first published in 1714, featuring "The Rape of the Lock" along with his essays on criticism and man, a satirical epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, and shorter pieces, with introduction, notes, and an appendix reprinting the poem's first edition.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare · 1609A 1609 collection of 154 lyric poems by William Shakespeare, written in sonnet form. The opening poems urge a beautiful young man to marry and have children so that his beauty and memory survive through posterity against time and decay.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية