Many of the most popular British poets - the ones most taught and studied in classrooms - wrote during the 19th century. Among them were the famous Romantic poets, including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordworth, John Keats, George Gordon Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Victorian poets, such as Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. "The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century" is a new encyclopedic guide to the 19th-century authors, poetry, historical places, and themes common to this literary period.
No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century.
It's a good book (for children and teachers) that can't be missed.
The Possessed is an emphatic howl of protest against the fervor of revolution and terrorism that gripped Russia toward the end of the nineteenth century. Based on a true event.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 5 February 2010
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Dr. Johnson's Women
"Dr. Johnson's Women represents the best kind of popula history being produced at the moment: scholarly, fluent and supremely human." --Kathryn Hughes, Daily Telegraph "Dr. Clarke understands the eighteenth century -- she has a nice sense of character. Her book is both shrewd and scholarly." --Adam Sisman, Evening Standard
