The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century

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Augustan Critical Writing Penguin Classics

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Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

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Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryan...

Women's Indian Captivity Narratives

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Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this antho...

American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920

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The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw t...

Against Slavery

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"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, f...

Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality

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Biographies, poetic compositions, works that are mystical, prophetic, visionary, or meditative: the selections here reflect the developments in medieval piety, particularly in the link between fema...

Medieval English Verse

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Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.F...

Lives of the Saints Classics

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Poems of the Late T'ang

By A. C. Graham