The Major Works: including The Prelude Oxford World’s Classics – William Wordsworth

His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative. William wordsworth 1770 1850 has long been one of the best known and best loved English poets. All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.

About the series: for over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, The Prelude 1805.

Oxford university Press USA. The lyrical ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, and much more.

This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries.


Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays Library of America

Kennedy’s inauguration and two fascinating 1959 essays on “The Future of Man. Several manuscript items are published here for the first time, ” frost’s remarks on being appointed poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1958, the preface to a proposed new edition of North of Boston, including the essays “‘Caveat Poeta’” and “The Way There, and many others.

Brought together for the first time in a library of america single volume is all the major poetry, and the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published, all of Frost’s dramatic writing, a generous selection of uncollected poems, several of which are printed here for the first time.

The core of this collection is the 1949 Complete Poems of Robert Frost, the last collection supervised by Frost himself. It is rich and diverse, presenting many newly discovered or rediscovered pieces. From the publication of his first collections,  a boy’s will 1913 and North of Boston 1914, Frost was recognized as a poet of unique power and formal skill, and the enduring significance of his work has been acknowledged by each subsequent generation.

Library of America. This version of the poems is free of unauthorized editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions. The library of america series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1, and ribbon markers, sewn bindings, feature cloth covers, 000 pages in length, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Verse drawn from letters, articles, pamphlets, and journals makes up the largest selection of uncollected poems ever assembled, including nearly two dozen beautiful early works printed for the first time.


The Major Works Oxford World's Classics - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel taylor coleridge, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, and radical thinker, poet, critic, Southey and Lamb. The central section of the book is devoted to his most significant critical work, Biographia Literaria, and reproduces it in full. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English thought.

Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, voluminous notes to clarify the text, including expert introductions by leading authorities, and much more. There is also a generous sample of his letters, notebooks, which show a different, and marginalia, some recently discovered, more spontaneous side to his fascinating and complex personality.

About the series: for over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. This collection represents the best of coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, which produced The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, particularly his prolific early years, and Kubla Khan.

. It provides a vital background for both the poetry section which precedes it and for the shorter prose works which follow. Library of America.


Centuries of Meditations

For more than 200 years, Thomas Traherne's Centuries of Meditations was undiscovered and unpublished. He worked as a parish priest in credenhill and wrote a handful of books, including Christian Ethicks 1675 and Roman Forgeries 1673. Yet dobell is careful to state that even though Traherne was a clergyman, there is plenty of beauty to be found in his poetry that does not require specific belief in Christianity or in God.

Centuries is a collection of poems written to express the rapture of life lived in accordance with God. The manuscript passed through many hands before finally being compiled into a book by bookseller and scholar BERTRAM DOBELL 1842-1914 in 1908. Library of America. English author thomas traherne 1636-1674 received a master's degree in arts and divinity from Brasenose College, Oxford.

Readers of many ages and persuasions will be touched by Traherne's passages on love and belonging.


Nature and Selected Essays Penguin Classics

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. An indispensible look at emerson's influential life philosophyThrough his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances.

Penguin Books. Library of America. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. His mandate, and for a reliance on individual integrity, which called for harmony with, nature, rather than domestication of, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, rather than on materialistic institutions, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.

Larzer ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

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The Creation in Full Score Dover Music Scores

Music lovers will find in these pages the spiritually enkindling qualities that have made The Creation, after Handel's Messiah, the most popular and most performed oratorio of all time. Late in his career, haydn, turned to composing oratorios himself, inspired by the oratorios of Handel, launching what would become a final brilliant and successful phase of his extraordinary rich and productive musical life.

Peters of leipzig, complete with the original German and English texts. In the creation, haydn combined the tradition of the Handelian oratorio and the Viennese mass with his own symphonic style to depict the glories of nature and man's innocent joy in it. That he did so with youthful freshness and vigor even at an advanced age is vivid testament to the rarity of his gifts.

F. Series: Dover Edition. Category: Choral Worship Cantata. Format: Full Score. Instrument: Choir. Genre: masterwork; Sacred. Penguin Books. Library of America.


Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias Classics of Western Spirituality Paperback

Library of America. Penguin Books. Series: Dover Edition. Category: Choral Worship Cantata. Format: Full Score. Instrument: Choir. Genre: masterwork; Sacred. This work contains the 26 visions of hildegard of bingen 1098-1179, who was the first of the great German mystics, as well as a poet and a prophet, a physician and a political moralist.

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Newton: Philosophical Writings Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Penguin Books. The excerpts show in depth how newton developed a number of highly controversial views concerning space, time, motion and matter and then defended them against the withering criticisms of his contemporaries. Despite his influence on the early modern period, manuscripts, his correspondence, and publications in natural philosophy remain scattered throughout many disparate editions.

In this volume, including excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks and a corrected translation of 'De Gravitatione', Newton's principal philosophical writings, are collected in a single place. Library of America. Leibniz. Series: Dover Edition. Category: Choral Worship Cantata. Format: Full Score. Instrument: Choir.

Genre: masterwork; Sacred. W. Sir isaac newton 1642-1727 left a voluminous legacy of writings. This newly expanded second edition of philosophical writings contains new excerpts from Newton's earliest optical writings, including the theologian Richard Bentley, the mathematician Roger Cotes, some of his unpublished reflections on the interpretation of Scriptural passages that concern the Earth's motion, and his correspondence with important figures in his day, and the philosopher G.

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Physics Oxford World's Classics

Now, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general structure of eac section of the book, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, in the first translation into English since 1930, and shed light on particular problems. Library of America. Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, and much more.

Penguin Books. For many centuries, aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. It simplifies and expands the style of the original, making for easier reading and better comprehension. About the series: for over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe.

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God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards With the Complete Text of The End for Which God Created the World

This book also contains the complete essay supplemented by almost a hundred of Piper's insightful explanatory notes. In his essay the end for which god created the World, the great theologian Jonathan Edwards proclaimed that God's ultimate end is the manifestation of his glory in the highest happiness of his creatures.

Pastor john piper has devoted his years of ministry to exploring the implications of this stunning truth for life and ministry. Series: Dover Edition. Category: Choral Worship Cantata. Format: Full Score. Instrument: Choir. Genre: masterwork; Sacred. Oxford university Press USA. Understanding that god is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him has made all the difference for John Piper-and can transform your life as well.

Here piper passionately demonstrates the relevance of Edwards's ideals for the personal and public lives of Christians today through his own book-length introduction to Edwards's The End for Which God Created the World. The result is a powerful and persuasive presentation of the things that matter most in the Christian life.

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Francis Bacon: The New Organon Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Penguin Books. Used book in Good Condition. Library of America. Series: Dover Edition. Category: Choral Worship Cantata. Format: Full Score. Instrument: Choir. Genre: masterwork; Sacred. Oxford university Press USA. This volume presents a new translation of the text into modern English by Michael Silverthorne, together with an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon's scientific and philosophical activities.

. Francis bacon's new organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of Bacon's time, and left its mark on all subsequent discussions of scientific method.

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