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by Christina Georgina RossettiThis poetry collection is the selective and popular poems written by Christina Georgina Rossetti, an English poet remembered for her wide variety of poetic works in the genres of Romance, Devotional and Children’s poems. Her magnum opuses are Goblin Market, Remember, and In the Bleak Midwinter. Her contributions to literary world includes ..
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01
by Henrik IbsenThe eleven volumes of this edition contain all, save one, of the dramas which Henrik Ibsen himself admitted to the canon of his works. The one exception is his earliest, and very immature, tragedy, Catilina, first published in 1850, and republished in 1875. This play is interesting in the light reflected from the poet’s later achievements, but has ..
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 09
by Ambrose BierceA German physician of some note once gave it out as his solemn conviction that civilized man is gradually but surely losing the sense of smell through disuse. It is a fact that we have noses less keen than the savages; which is well for us, for we have a dozen “well-defined and several” bad odors to their one. It is possible, indeed, that it is to ..
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
by Arthur Quiller-CouchFor this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Glosses of archaic and otherwise difficult words are given at the foot of the page: but the text has not been disfigured with reference-marks. And rather th..