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Suffrage Songs and Verses
Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsSaga EgmontSuffrage Songs and Verses, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a collection of 25 poems which advocates the suffragette movement and women’s rights. Published in 1911, the poetry antho...
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The Forerunner
Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsSaga Egmont"Should we not laugh to see a horse in corsets? The time is coming when we shall so laugh to see a woman." - The Forerunner Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In th...
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The Sonnets
Shakespeare, WilliamSaga Egmont'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate...' It is one of the most memorable and memorised lines of poetry of all time. But there is no need...
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The Pageant of Summer
Jefferies, RichardSaga EgmontHave you ever spent an evening in the English countryside and marveled at the beauty around you? In ‘The Pageant of Summer’, Victorian British author Richard Jefferies takes you on...
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The Poems and Verses
Dickens, CharlesSaga EgmontThe majority of the poems in this collection ‘The Poems and Verses’ are a classic collection of poetic works by Charles Dickens. They are brought together in this anthology after a...
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Artemis to Actaeon
Wharton, EdithSaga EgmontWhile she might be best known as the author of ‘The Age of Innocence’ (adapted for film, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daniel Day-Lewis), Edith Wharton wrote an extensive ran...
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Blake, WilliamSaga EgmontGood and evil, right and wrong, innocence and sinfulness, redeemed and fallen. 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is a classic book of two halves - encapsulated by the extended...
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Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel TaylorSaga EgmontSherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; Merry and Pippin; Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy...great duos often help to make great literature. So when two soon-to-be luminaries of the English Ro...
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Poems
Dickinson, EmilySaga EgmontDive into one of the most important figures in American poetry, Emily Dickinson’s iconic collection. Characterised by three distinct periods, a sentimental tone lies in her work da...
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Wheatley, PhillisSaga EgmontPoetry can inspire, evoke, provoke and transport the reader. But this collection of 39 poems did even more - it broke barriers. This collection was written by Phillis Wheatley, the...
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Shorter Poems
Browning, RobertSaga EgmontIt took the publication of the lengthy work 'The Ring and the Book' to gain Robert Browning recognition in his lifetime. But today, the Victorian poet is more admired for these, hi...
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Leaves of Grass
Whitman, WaltSaga EgmontIt is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, 'Leaves...
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Aurora Leigh
Browning, Elizabeth BarrettSaga EgmontJoin Aurora on her travels from Florence to London - a coming of age journey full of trials and tribulations. Spanning 9 books, Browning’s poetic blank verse evokes classical and m...
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Sonnets From the Portuguese
Browning, Elizabeth BarrettSaga EgmontPoetry lovers look no further! Elizabeth Barret Browning’s passionate collection of 44 love sonnets is all you'll ever need. Following the Italian model made popular by Petrarch,...
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The Poems of John Donne
Donne, JohnSaga EgmontSoldier, secretary, Anglican priest, MP, father of 12, Dean of St Paul's...it's amazing that John Donne had any spare time.<br><br>But this collection of his poems shows why it is...
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The Prophet
Gibran, KahlilSaga Egmont‘The Prophet’ is a collection of prose poetry offering spiritual insights into a range of subjects. Through 26 fables, Gibran explores everything from love, marriage, and children...
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Paradise Lost
Milton, JohnSaga Egmont'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.'<br>It's the classic temptation - power. And these are the words John Milton puts on the forked tongue of the serpent when it spea...
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Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems
Stowe, Harriet BeecherSaga EgmontYou won't fail to be captured by one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s greatest books 'Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems'.<br><br>Religious and spiritual, the studies and poems reflec...
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The Golden Threshold
Naidu, SarojiniSaga EgmontShe was the 'Nightingale of India', and her voice was first heard in 1905 when 'The Golden Threshold' was published.<br><br>This collection of Sarojini Naidu's early work is alread...
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Poems of 1820
Keats, JohnSaga Egmont'Poems of 1820' is a great reminder that some achieve greatness at an early age. John Keats was 24 when this collection of poems was published and it is wild, ecstatic, sensuous an...