narrative poetry, english

Contains the sonnets and other poems of William Shakespeare along with a substantial introduction by Jonathan Bate and a chronology of Shakespeare's writings.

Presents a collection of 59 tales in verse.

Presents five narrative poems by William Shakespeare, including "Venus and Adonis, " "Lucrece, " "The Phoenix and the Turtle, " "The Passionate Pilgrim, " and "A Lover's Complaint"; and includes notes, an introduction, and an essay on the playwright's theatrical world.

A fictitious story told in rhyming verse, relating the amorous adventures of Michael Byrne, an Irish artist and composer who disappears in World War II Germany and later unites the children he has fathered for the reading of his will.

Presents a collection of rhyming verse and poems by popular children's author Roald Dahl, author of "James and the Giant Peach".