Literary studies: poetry and poets

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942.

This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present.

The First World War changed the map of Europe forever.

Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W.

Oriental Wells explores the manifold ways in which the East was a major source of inspiration for the British Romantic poets, who generously borrowed from the Eastern sources in their effort to reinvent the British poetic tradition.

This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.

Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition.

The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals.

"e;Coleridge's Conversation Poems - The Complete Collection"e; features all eight of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems dubbed 'conversation poems' by George McLean Harper.

Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original form.

This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the "e;Mechanical Age.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives.

This book outlines Beckett''s passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

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This book presents a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own colleges and universities.

The surprising idea of pleasure as communal provides a new way of understanding Wordsworth''s poetry and the Enlightenment''s critical legacy.

This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place.

The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty.

A selection of one hundred poems by George Herbert, one of the greatest devotional poets in the English language.

A new survey of twentieth-century U.

A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.

Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.

Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864.

Poetry in the Making investigates the compositional practices of Victorian poets, as made evident in the autograph manuscripts of their poems.

Nothing was more important to Wordsworth than tracing the evidence that affinities had been preserved between all the stages of the life of man.

In Fair Copy Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States.

Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.

The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers.

Lawrence Durrell's success as a novelist may have tended to obscure his achievement as a poet and in poetry.

Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature.

What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa.

This vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu'.

Walt Whitman "e;is America,"e; according to Ezra Pound.

Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules.

The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (19292008) in 1951.

Michael Longley has remarkable powers of reinvention.

In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work.

Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.

This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with an introduction, head notes and annotations that shed new light on the full context and significance of each piece.

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