The Rhymes of Ruth Rayne

The Rhymes of Ruth Rayne
Author: Helen E. Morton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368660861

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

Waiting on the Word

Waiting on the Word
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1848258003

For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.

Spenser: The Faerie Queene

Spenser: The Faerie Queene
Author: A. C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 810
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317865642

The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.