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Colloquies on Society by Robert Southey is a compiliation (mainly poetry) of Southey’s work rendered into volume 4.

English Poetry has a long history, beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry, through the Middle Ages and the Elizabethan period of William Shakespeare, followed by The Romantic Movement, Scottish Romanticism, and the Welsh Renaissance. Titles include: A London plane-tree, and other verse, A selection from the love poetry of William Butler Yeats, Alfred Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678, Tercentenary Tributes, Ballads from Scottish History, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Irish Poems, Lays of the Highlands and Islands, Matthew Arnold’s Notebooks, Poems, Poems of Robert Browning, Poems of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, and Rupert Brooke and Skyros. About us Trieste Publishing’s aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. Our titles are produced from scans of the original books and as a result may sometimes have imperfections. To ensure a high-quality product we have: thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the catalog repaired some of the text in some cases, and rejected titles that are not of the highest quality. You can look up “Trieste Publishing” in categories that interest you to find other titles in our large collection. Come home to the books that made a difference!

Volume V is the Old English Baron written by Clara Reeve.

The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777 under its original name of The Champion of Virtue, before Samuel Richardson’s daughter, Mrs Bridgen, had edited it for her. Apart from typographical errors, the revision was trifling.

Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that

“This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a picture of Gothic times and manners.”

Originally Reeve presented the story, as Walpole had done before her, as an old manuscript she had merely discovered and transcribed. Under Mrs Bridgen’s auspices this fiction was removed from the preface, but more subtle textual references to its authenticity were allowed to remain. These included the claim that the four-year interval was a lacuna in the manuscript, where the original author was supposed to have left off and a “more modern hand” continued the manuscript; there are many subsequent breaches in the narrative where the original was supposed to have been defaced by damp.

The Oxford World’s Classics edition notes that it was a major influence in the development of Gothic fiction.  It was dramatized in 1799 as Edmond, Orphan of the Castle.

Cassell’s National Library was a weekly series issued by Cassell & Company of London, comprising English literature edited by Henry Morley. From 1886 to 1889 it issued 209 weekly volumes. These were sold for 3d. in paper covers and 6d. cloth-bound.

Cassell & Co is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

In 1995, Cassell & Co acquired Pinter Publishers. In December 1998, Cassell & Co was bought by the Orion Publishing Group. In January 2002, Cassell imprints, including the Cassell Reference and Cassell Military were joined with the Weidenfeld imprints to form a new division under the name of Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.  Cassell Illustrated survives as an imprint of the Octopus Publishing Group.

Henry Morley (15 September 1822 – 14 May 1894) was an English academic who was one of the earliest professors of English literature in Great Britain. Morley wrote a popular book containing biographies of famous English writers.

Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, then an unusual language for a woman to learn.

Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a genre of literature and film that covers horror, death, and at times, romance. It is said to derive from the English author Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled “A Gothic Story”. Early contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford and Matthew Lewis. It tends to stress emotion and a pleasurable terror that expands the Romantic literature of the time. The common “pleasures” were the sublime, which indescribably “takes us beyond ourselves.”  Such extreme Romanticism was popular throughout Europe, especially among English and German-language authors. Its 19th-century success peaked with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and work by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens, and in poetry with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Also prominent was the later Dracula by Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh’s The Beetle and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The name Gothic spread from the Goths to mean “German”. It also draws in Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, where many of the stories occur. Twentieth-century contributors include Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice and Toni Morrison.