Category
English literature
John Milton
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth
A defence of the Republic written on the eve of the restoration of the monarchy. Milton persisted in opposing rule by one man in favor of rule by those to whom power had been delegated by the people.
Open the reader →Percy Bysshe Shelley
Posthumous Poems
A volume of poems published after Shelley’s death in 1822 with a preface by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Open the reader →William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Sonnets And A Lover’s Complaint
A good modern edition of all of Shakespeare’s sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint accompanied by a scholarly introduction and notes on the poems.
Open the reader →Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Miscellaneous Writings, vol. 1
The first volume of a two volume collection of Macaulay’s essays. The first volume contains his essays from Knight’s *Quarterly Magazine* written during the mid-1820s. The second volume contains essays published in the *Edinburgh Review* in the 1830s and 1840s; in the *Encyclopedia Britannica* in the 1850s; and miscellaneous poems and inscriptions.
Open the reader →Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, in 2 vols.
A two volume collection of Macaulay’s essays. The first volume contains his essays from Knight’s *Quarterly Magazine* written during the mid-1820s. The second volume contains essays published in the *Edinburgh Review* in the 1830s and 1840s; in the *Encyclopedia Britannica* in the 1850s; and miscellaneous poems and inscriptions.
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