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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman — A.E. Housman

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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Time Come Selected Prose

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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Shelley on Love Selected Writings — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe. Shelley

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth A New Edition; Volume I — William Wordsworth

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth A New Edition; Volume I

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Renaissance Literary Theory And Practice Classicism In The Rhetoric And Poetic Of Italy, France, And England, 1400-1600 — Charles Sears Baldwin

Renaissance Literary Theory And Practice Classicism In The Rhetoric And Poetic Of Italy, France, And England, 1400-1600

Charles Sears Baldwin

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Sacred Wood — T S Eliot

The Sacred Wood — T S Eliot

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism — John Milton

Paradise Lost Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Collected Poems — Roger McGough

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937 — Ursula Bridge

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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Thomas Kinsella

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Piers the Ploughman — William Langland

Piers the Ploughman

William Langland

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame — Piero Boitani

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems — Craig Williamson

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Craig Williamson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

What Was Said at the Burns Supper Speeches about Robert Burns and Really Bad Scottish Jokes Best Washed Down with a Wee Dram — Alan McColl

What Was Said at the Burns Supper Speeches about Robert Burns and Really Bad Scottish Jokes Best Washed Down with a Wee Dram

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Home at Grasmere Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth — Dorothy Wordsworth

Home at Grasmere Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Hudibras V3 With Dr. Grey’s Annotations (1819) — Samuel Butler

Hudibras V3 With Dr. Grey’s Annotations (1819)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Portable Elizabethan Reader — Hiram Collins Haydn

The Portable Elizabethan Reader

Hiram Collins Haydn

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry — Peter Robinson

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Don Juan — Lord George Gordon Byron

Lord George Gordon Byron

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings — Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy — Thomas Hardy

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

This Year 365 Songs Annotated — John Darnielle

This Year 365 Songs Annotated

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

A George Herbert Companion (Routledge Revivals) — Robert H. Ray

A George Herbert Companion (Routledge Revivals)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Ghost Poetry Project — Nathan Curnow

The Ghost Poetry Project

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Selected Poems by John Dryden. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Literary Criticism. Authors featured include A. E. Housman, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Percy Bysshe. Shelley, William Wordsworth, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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Dryden Poems and Prose

The rival ladies. A tragi-comedy. As it was acted at the Theater-Royal. — John Dryden

The rival ladies. A tragi-comedy. As it was acted at the Theater-Royal.

King Arthur: or, The British worthy. A masque as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. [Altered by David Garrick.] — John Dryden

King Arthur: or, The British worthy. A masque as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. [Altered by David Garrick.]

The kind keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: a comedy: as it was acted at the Duke’s Theatre by His Royal Highnesses Servants. — John Dryden

The kind keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: a comedy: as it was acted at the Duke’s Theatre by His Royal Highnesses Servants.

Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: a tragedy, acted at the Theatre-Royal. — John Dryden

Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: a tragedy, acted at the Theatre-Royal.

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