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The authoritative guide to the AQA A Level English poetry anthology (pre-1900). This book provides students and teachers with invaluable guidance on each of the 14 poems, each of which is printed in full. With an illuminating and perceptive introduction to the study of poetry, a full glossary and detailed commentaries on all fourteen poems, this is the best guide on the market. For first teaching from September 2015. Intended for A Level students.

Is there a better English love poet than John Donne?By turns erotic and passionate, scathing and acerbic, sentimental and emtoive, playful and loving, Donne covers all facets of love in this remarakble colllection.

Christopher Marlowe, based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power, experience, pleasure and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe''s death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. It is the most controversial Elizabethan play outside of Shakespeare, with few critics coming to any agreement as to the date or the nature of the text. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk.

Sioux writer and activist Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938) was born in the year of the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn--her people''s last victory over the invasion forces that would soon force them onto reservations, on one of which she grew up under a regime of forced assimilation. Her writing career blossomed early, with stories published in the Atlantic Monthly when she was in her early twenties. She could have been a mere exotic, but she found a way to capture the interest of non-Indian readers, who preferred the romanticized noble savage to the often-sad reality of Indian life, and to give voice to her threatened culture. Her work, surprisingly, seems undated, perhaps because, unfortunately, the situation of Indian people has changed so little. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. ''The Suppliants'' tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages.

Khalil Gibran''s ''Broken Wings'' is a poetic novel of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-century Beirut. Selma Karamy is betrothed to a prominent religious man''s nephew but meets a young man and they fall in love. They begin to meet in secret, are discovered, and Selma is forbidden to leave her house. ''Broken Wings'' highlights the social issues of the time in the Eastern Mediterranean, including religious corruption, the rights of women and of wealth and happiness

''The Seagull''is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.

''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'' is the most overt statement Blake ever wrote in prose of his beliefs and the radical, revolutionary part of this text are ''The Proverbs of Hell.''''No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. Exuberance is Beauty. ''A superb insight into Blake''s beliefs and essential for a full understanding of ''The Songs of Innocence and Experience.''

Sidney''s sonnet cycle, consisting of 100 sonnets, followed by 11 Songs, is, after Shakespeare''s, the finest sonnet cycle in the English language. Sidney explores all the aspects of what it means to be in love and does so in language that is memorable and striking. All lovers of poetry will enjoy exploring this classic work from the Elizabethan era. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk