Poetry from Regency Books 1811

The Corsair. A Tale. Warsaw, Rambler Press, 2023 The Corsair (1814) is a long tale in verse written by Lord Byron and published by John Murray in London. It was extremely popular, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale, and was influential throughout the following century, inspiring operas, music and ballet. The poetry, divided into cantos, narrates the story of… Read more about this item

Lyrical Ballads with other Poems William Wordsworth A HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. It became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature. Most of… Read more about this item

Christabel. Kubla Khan, a Vision. The Pains of Sleep Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Christabel" is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside "Kubla Khan" and "The Pains… Read more about this item

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (1716 – 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very… Read more about this item