Single Author Collections
A Slav Soul
Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called hi…
The Tower
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…
April Twilights
A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)
Day Dreams
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…
Fine Clothes to the Jew
Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes. The collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press,…
John Sherman and Dhoya
John Sherman and Dhoya brings together two distinct yet thematically intertwined works by William Butler Yeats. In the novella John Sherman,…
The Red Inn
Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. - Summary by pmstrahm
Bars and Shadows
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the…
In the Net of the Stars
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
A Shropshire Lad
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …
The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman
Published by the Religious Tract Society in London, The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman is a collection of domestic, spiritual, and fanciful po…
Foliage
W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one …
Maud, and Other Poems
Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secre…
Poems
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his…
A Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…
Songs of the Road
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…
Poems by Edward Thomas
Born in 1878, Thomas published his first book when he was 18. Having married while still at university, he supported his family by writing a…
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…
Leda
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…