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The longest and most ambitious work of his career, Idylls is a reflection of Tennyson's lifelong interest in Arthurian themes. His personification of Arthur, the highest ideal of manhood and leadership, is achieved through a delicacy of phrase and metrical effect that are unmatched.
4) Macbeth
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Set in Medieval Scotland, in an atmosphere of civil unrest and mutual suspicion, this story of Macbeth and his wife-accomplice Lady Macbeth tells of the intellectual and emitional consequences of unbridled ambition and the cold-blooded murder it engenders.
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"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve the temptation and fall is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking...
14) Selected poems
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From 10 collections of his verse, John Ashbery has made his own choice of 138 poems, including short lyrics, haiku, prose poems, a selection from the 16-line poems of Shadow Train and some of his long poems. Lyrical and discursive, ribald and reflective, these poems are among the most original, inventive and challenging in American verse today. The volume includes his long hypnotic meditations -- "The Skaters," "The System," "A Wave" and "Self-Portrait...
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Wrote Virginia Woolf of Aurora Leigh in 1931. 'We laugh, we protest, we complain - it is absurd, it is impossible, we cannot tolerate this exaggeration a moment longer - but, nevertheless, we read to the end enthralled. What more can an author ask?' Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression....
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