English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence
Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here---Intimations of Immortality, - -The Ancient Mariner, - -The Tyger, - excerpts from Don Juan--s well as some less familiar poems. As muchas possible, the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray, Cowper, Burns, and Chatterton. Naturally, most space has been given over to the major Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth,...

The greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose
Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850. Beowulf's adventures themselves stand in front of the wide historical canvas of 5th and 6th century Scandinavia. Against this heroic background of feuding and feasting, Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and her mother, and later defends his people against a...

Offers coverage of the content for the GCSE specifications in Human Physiology and Health, and Human biology. This title is suitable for students studying any of the BTEC or OCR Nationals in Health and Social Care, or Science.

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