The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
Title | The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Iona Opie |
Publisher | Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This collection of fifty-nine poems spans six hundred years of literary tradition, from Chaucer to Auden, and includes such selections as Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner."
The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
Title | The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Opie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Narrative poetry, American |
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Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
Title | Oxford Book of Narrative Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Iona Opie |
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Release | 1983-10-01 |
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ISBN | 9780191907951 |
A Book of Narrative Verse
Title | A Book of Narrative Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Vere Henry Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Narrative poetry, English |
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Narrative Verse
Title | Narrative Verse PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 412 |
Release | 1932 |
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Title | The Oxford Book of English Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Antonia Susan Byatt |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Angleterre - Mœurs et coutumes - Romans, nouvelles, etc |
ISBN | 9780192881113 |
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'
The Oxford Book of Story Poems
Title | The Oxford Book of Story Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Harrison |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780192763440 |
Presents a variety of classic and contemporary British and American narrative poems, including "Jabberwocky," "Annabel Lee," "Sir Patrick Spens," and "The Highwayman."