The Master-mistress


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The Phoenix and the Turtle


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'The Phoenix and the Turtle' is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. The poem describes a funeral arranged for the deceased Phoenix and Turtledove, respectively emblems of perfection and of devoted love. Some birds are invited, but others excluded. It goes on to state that the love of the birds created a perfect unity which transcended all logic and material fact. It concludes with a prayer for the dead lovers.




To His Coy Mistress


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An enigmatic men, whose poems balance opposing principles-Royalism and Republicanism, spirituality and sexuality.




Mistress Bradstreet


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Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, among others, and through John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet's family or their close associates -- characters who appear in these pages.




Nothing Like the Sun


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Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.




Nile River Woman


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The infamous 1997 poetry collection that got Kola Boof kicked out of Morocco.




Poetry Review


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THE MASTER'S MISTRESS


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【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】His father, whom Rogan hasn’t seen in more than a decade, has passed away, so he returns to his family home in Cornwall for the first time in a long while. Completely unaware that a beautiful woman would be there when he arrived, Rogan assumes she’s his father’s lover. But college professor Elizabeth is only there to catalog Rogan's father’s library. In fact, she’s just begun. Not only has her employer passed away, but now his son has shown up and made outrageous assumptions about her! She’d have liked to continue her work but decides it’s best to call it quits. Elizabeth doesn’t think for a moment that she could fall for Rogan, no matter how wildly sexy he might be!




Poems by Walt Whitman


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Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry. Here are collected his finest poems, a perfect companion for any fan of Whitman's work.