White Fang

 White Fang is a wolf from the mountains of Canada. His life is hard but he is happy in his world. Then he is taken to the world of men. There he learns to fight and to kill. White Fang knows nothing about love. But one day he meets Scott…

A book for reading with activities.

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Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (Student Shakespeare Library)

 This encyclopedia-style Dictionary is a comprehensive reference guide to Shakespeare's literary knowledge and recent scholarship on it. Nearly 200 entries cover the full range of literary writing Shakespeare was acquainted with, and which influenced his own work, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. It provides an overview of his use of authors such as Virgil, Chaucer, Erasmus, Marlowe and Samuel Daniel, whose influence is across the canon. Other entries cover anonymous or collective works such as the Bible, Emblems, Homilies, Chronicle History plays and the Morality tradition in drama. Entries cover writers and works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research. Others describe and explain current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, Holinshed, Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all major sources, over 80 in number, feature surveys of the writer's place in Shakespeare's time, detailed dicussion of the relationship to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and full bibliography. Sample passages from writers and texts of early modern England allow the volume to be used also as a reader in the literature commonly known in Shakespeare's era  these excerpts, together with reproductions of pages and illustrations from the original texts, convey the flavor of the material as Shakespeare would have encountered it.

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Poetry (Craft of Writing)

 Explores and explains the craft of writing poetry by providing examples and exercises.

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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

 A startling portrayal of one of America's most significant literary figures that will change the way we view her life and legacy

 In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination. Thanks to unprecedented use of letters, diaries, and legal documents, Gordon digs deep into the life and work of Emily Dickinson, to reveal the secret behind the poet's insistent seclusion, and presents a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual sustenance, and immortality all on her own terms. An enthralling story of creative genius, filled with illicit passion and betrayal, Lives Like Loaded Guns is sure to cause a stir among Dickinson's many devoted readers and scholars.

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Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers

 Based on theory but with a practical dimension, the book engages readers in current critical debates about poetry teaching and its place in an assessment-driven curriculum.

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Poetry: The Basics

 How do I read a poem? Do I really understand poetry?
This comprehensive guide demystifies the world of poetry, exploring poetic forms and traditions which can at first seem bewildering. Showing how any reader can gain more pleasure from poetry, it looks at the ways in which poetry interacts with the language we use in our everyday lives and explores how poems use language and form to create meaning.
Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it looks at aspects including: 
 * how technical aspects such as rhythm and measures work
 * how different tones of voice affect a poem
 * how poetic language relates to everyday language
 * how different types of poetry work, from sonnets to free verse
 * how the form and 'space' of a poem contributes to its meaning.

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The Sonnets and Other Poems (Modern Library Classics)

 Product Description: Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. Produced under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the long narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece,” and several other shorter works.

Incorporating definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works, this unique volume also includes an expanded Introduction by Jonathan Bate that places the poems in literary and historical context and illuminates their relationship to Shakespeare’s dramatic writing. Also featured are key facts about the individual selections  an index of the first lines of the sonnets  a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times  and recommendations for further reading.

Ideal for students and general readers alike, this modern and accessible edition sets a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

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Companion to British Poetry Before 1600

The first volume in a four-volume set on British poetry includes English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish poetry before 1600. For this volume, editor Sauer has chosen the poems and poets who are most often included in the major anthologies of literature and the most used high-school textbooks. This means students will find analysis of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Shakespeare’s sonnets in one place. The 600 A–Z entries cover poets, poems, themes, terms, and historical events. Appendixes contain a glossary of literary terms and a bibliography. All articles are signed and include see also references and lists of further readings in journals and books. Entries range in length from a few paragraphs to 43 pages for Shakespeare’s sonnets. The entries on poems give an overview of the text, a discussion of the style, the historical context, and the most common interpretations of the poem.  The covered poets include not only the greats but also lesser-known but important poets, such as Bede and Dafydd ap Gwilym, along with many anonymous poets. Also included are some influential non-British poets, such as Ovid and Boccaccio. Important historical personages, such as Alfred the Great and Queen Elizabeth I, are treated in entries that explain their impact on writers of the time. Thematic entries provide background information for such topics as Arthurian literature, Peasants’ revolt, and Welsh women poets. Literary terms (e.g., Ballade, Octave) are explained in simple terms. In jargon-free language, this volume brings together a great deal of information that will be helpful to literature students. The analysis of poems will help them understand these early works, while the historical, biographical, and literary information will be useful in research. Gale’s series Poetry for Students has a much longer analysis of individual poems, but students would have to go through 30 volumes to find the poem they need, and the ongoing set is much more expensive.

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Art of Poetry

 Author(s):     Hugh Kenner
Publisher:     Holt,Rinehart & Winston of Canada Ltd
Date:     1959-12     Format:     pdf     Language:     English     ISBN10:     0030088402   
Pages:     379     OCR:         Quality:         ISBN13:     9780030088407    

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Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry (Iran Studies)

 This volume is a collection of essays on classical Persian literature, focusing on Persian rhetorical devices, especially imagery and metaphors. The various contributions discuss the origin and the development of debate poetry, the transmission of Persian and Arabic tales to the works of Europeans medieval authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also the development of Aristotelian poetics and epistemology in Persian philosophical tradition.

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Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory[2006]

 While it posits the problematics in the historical development of Shakespeare's presence in Romanian culture, the study gives a detailed history of the translations and productions of the plays, focusing on the most significant aspects of their literary, social, and political appropriation over the past two centuries. The author locates the arguments in a vista of cultural, social, and political issues that affected the local responses to Shakespeare. This monograph represents the cultural mediation of Romania in the context of "Shakespeare" understood as a construct shaping and created by various cultures. The description of Romanian cultural products and stage history examines how early translations from Shakespeare of production of plays grouped according to genre have contributed to the modeling of a theatrical selfhood that was linked to the European reception of the English poet. The survey of early versions of Shakespeare shows how Romanian translators interpreted the allusions in the text, while the cultural authority of the Shakespeare figure was perceived as a means of facilitating the country's exit from the status of a marginalized Balkan elsewhere. Romania, like other Eastern European stages, has exploited Shakespeare's canonical significance in the world civilization in order to leave its marginal status and assume the cultural, social, and political values of the other, mainly Western, European countries.

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Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 In a language overflowing with diminutives, the name Rossetti, indicating an original tendency to red hair, a characteristic which ceased to distinguish the family, v.'as bestowed upon certain of its members. In compliance with a custom more common in Italy than in England, but not unknown here, what was originally applied as a nick-name became accepted as a patronymic.

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