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John Godwin
The three poems (Satires 7, 8 and 9) that comprise Book 3 of the Satires form a brilliant collection, displaying Juvenal at the height of his powers and in the…
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The Romans invented 'satire' as a separate genre and used it both for personal invective and as a literary and philosophical mode of expression. In the hands of their greatest…
Originally published in 1915. The illustrated contents include: Bees and Bee Keeping - Laying out a Small Holding - Working the Land - Arrangement of Fruit Trees - Garden Plans…
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This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Horace’s Satires. Satire 1.1 lines 1-12, 28-100, Satire 1.3 lines 25-75 and Satire 2.2 lines 1-30, 70-111 are included as…
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This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid’s Heroides. Heroides VI, lines 1-100 and 127-64, and Heroides X, lines 1-76 and 119-50 are included as Latin text…
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Horace’s Odes. Odes 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on…
With a commentary giving proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius’ poetry.
Juvenal’s fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms. The Introduction places Juvenal in the history of Satire and also explores…
The purpose of this edition is to demonstrate the quality and interest of book VI: the intellectual curiosity of the analyst of earthquakes, volcanoes and marvellous phenomena, the rhetorical and…
This volume completes Godwin’s edition of all the surviving poetry of Catullus, aiming to bring the literary history of this poet to new readers. It describes and discusses recent scholarship…
Laughter and loathing, sense and sensibility, spleen and ideal - all are here in this collection of witty and at times excoriating poems showing us what life was like in…
Roman poet Catullus’ poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This book explores…
The Roman poet Lucretius, who lived in the first century BC, composed an epic poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), whose avowed purpose was to change…
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This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Horace’s Satires, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Satires…
Poems selections in Latin. Commentary in English.
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Horace’s Odes, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Odes 3.2, 3.3…
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus’ poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85…
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Satires 14 and 15, giving…
Ovid
Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from…
John L. Godwin
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John Hensley Godwin
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Godwin,Titus Lucretius Carus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Although Catullus is one of the best known Roman poets, it is his shorter poems that are more familiar. This is the first edition of the long poems of Catullus…
Pamela Clemit,Betty T Bennett,John Mullan
This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period
This mixed media pack looks at John Glenn, America’s first man in space, and his historic flight. It includes Glenn’s first-hand recollections, a reproduction of the official NASA news release…
John Broughton
Amidst the bloodshed of 11th century combat and conquest, Saxon Godwine elevates himself from landless youth to trusted confidante of the most powerful man in England.
A kingmaker, Godwine’s fealty…
John Godwin,Antony John Richards,Colin Dexter
Here for the 1st time complete with gazetteer and map is the true story of the murder of Christina Collins on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Rugeley in 1839…
St Paul
Peter Marshall
A comprehensive study of the fascinating William Godwin
Michael John Key
The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of Hastings.
New paperback edition - The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of Hastings.
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John Michell
Deepest thoughts and musings of a 1960s countercultural icon.
Parke Godwin
William Godwin
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
