简介：Book Description A selection of Poe's poetry and sixteen of his best-known tales, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"The Fall of the House of Usher,"The Black Cat," and "The Pit and the Pendulum.". About Author In his short, troubled life Edgar Allan Poe originated the mystery story, brought new psychological depth to the tale of horror, and made inimitable contributions to Romantic poetry and literary criticism. Born in Boston in 1809 to itinerant actors, Poe was orphaned as an infant and sent to live with a Richmond merchant, John Allan. Allan sent him to the University of Virginia in 1826, but Poe withdrew because of gambling debts. In 1830, with his first book of poems already published, he entered West Point but was dishonorably discharged the next year. In 1835 Poe was chosen editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe was already established as an author when, in 1845, the publication of "The Raven" made him famous. He began to lecture, engaged in a celebrated feud with Longfellow, and became sole proprietor of his own magazine, Broadway Journal. But in 1846 the magazine went bankrupt, and in 1847, after years of suffering, Poe's wife died of consumption. His ill health and drinking worsened. In October 1849 he was found semiconscious outside a polling place in Baltimore; a few days later he died without regaining consciousness. Ignored for the most part by his countrymen, he was idolized by the French Symbolists, who thought of him as the first modern poet and helped to win him the recognition that is now his.

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简介：Shelley continued the romantic concept of "nature is divinity" and integrated Keats' death into the natural cycle - in the poem, "the west wind," "the waves," "the flowers," and "the stars" all become mourners: "The flowers of spring will shed tears for you,/The west wind will sigh for you," but this mourning is not despair, but a ritual of "life returning to its natural mother. He believed that although Keats' body had passed away, the "beauty and truth" carried in his poetry (as Keats advocated, "beauty is truth, truth is beauty") would blend into nature and eternity like Adonis was reborn from ashes, becoming an "immortal spirit".

简介：Often seen as a key to understanding Elizabethan poetry, Sidney's persuasive treatise follows the rules of rhetoric in presenting evidence of the virtues of poetry. Sidney argues with wit and irony that poetry is the art, which best teaches what is good and true. This seems a fitting argument for this prominent experimental poet who himself is said to have represented 'life and action good and great'.

简介：特罗洛普（1815-1882），英国文学史上最高产最伟大的小说家。共创作长篇小说47部，还有大量短篇小说、游记、传记及一部自传。前期发表的一组六部总名为《巴塞特郡》的小说为他奠定了基础，其中以《养老院院长》和《巴切斯特塔》最为脍炙人口。后期小说中也有一组六部作品名为《巴里塞小说》，属于政治小说或称议会小说，其中以《首相》最出色，写当时英国上层政治家的相互斗争。一般认为，特罗洛普最好的作品是包括《巴彻斯特养老院》、《巴彻斯特大教堂》、《索恩医生》、《弗雷姆利教区》、《阿林顿小屋》、《巴塞特的最后纪事》六部长篇小说在内“巴塞特郡”系列。 晚年还有两部优秀作品《如今世道》和《斯卡包鲁一家》。他的写实手法揭露讥讽英国维多利亚女王时代中、上层社会，并自觉灌注道德教育意图。他的小说情节发展自然流畅，文笔犀利幽默，人物形象生动，心理刻画逼真深刻。生前未给予充分评价，近半个世纪文名重振，成为英国19世纪经典作家之一。一般认为，特罗洛普最好的作品是包括《巴彻斯特养老院》、《巴彻斯特大教堂》、《索恩医生》、《弗雷姆利教区》、《阿林顿小屋》、《巴塞特的最后纪事》六部长篇小说在内“巴塞特郡”系列。

简介：Barchester towers is the Second of trollope's six Barsetshire novels.following on directly from The Warden,though each novel is complete in itself,The political intrigues of the cathedral close unfold and we are delighted by the donimant Mrs Proudie Wife of the ineffectual Bishop;the scheming Chaplain,Obadiah Slope;and the Worldly and ambitious Archdeacon Grantly.We meet again.From The Warden,the kindly old Mr Hagding, and his Dauhter,Eleanor,now newly widowed. Trollope's comic genius and ironic wit reveal a past world,which is nevertheless recognisable today.