Literary studies: poetry and poets

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792.

Yeats Annual is the leading international research-level journal devoted to the greatest twentieth-century poet in the English language.

'At last, we have a study that tackles these questions, and does so with a wealth of learning, a poet's sensibility and a thorough theological literacy.

Opening with Thomas's life, the book offers vignettes of Swansea in the 1920s and 1930s, pre- and post-war Laugharne and rural West Wales, wartime London and New York City in the early 1950s, seen through the poet's eyes.

Theatre has never been afraid to adapt, rewrite and contemporize Shakespeare's drama since theatre by definition is a living medium involving a corporate creativity.

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This volume provides accurate texts of all the poems by Yeats published in his lifetime or scheduled for publication as of his death on January 28, 1939, including those omitted from earlier collections.

This fully detailed chronology makes the best use of Keats's letters to indicate his poetic aims and achievements.

This volume of essays and other materials offers an assessment of the short prose, verse and drama of Daniil Kharms, Leningrad absurdist of the 1920s and 1930s, who was one of the last representatives of the Russian literary avante-garde.

Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.

Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism.

The book consists of seven essays exploring the relationship between Pound and Browning, Yeats, Ford, Lewis, Joyce, Eliot and American epic tradition.

This work attempts to analyze Shakespeare's tragedies, concentrating on the accidental irregularities and the inspired "e;unconformities"e; to the found there.

An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account.

This book brings together articles and essays published over a period of about 60 years.

This study is a companion to the revised edition of W.

Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.

This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are resolved.

The presentation of Tennyson's personal and poetic development is supplemented by an introduction, brief biographical sketches of more than 30 of his friends, and maps of relevant areas in Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight.

This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.

The third volume of a three volume edition of the collected papers and notebooks which comprise the "e;automatic writing"e; of W.

The first volume of a three-volume edition of the collected papers and notebooks which comprise the "e;automatic writing"e; of W.

Written by the author of "e;Browning and the Fictions of Identity,"e; this is a study of the discourse of self in Victorian poetry.

This text uses machine data of poetry readings to discover features of rhythm and intonation and to clear away methodological problems that hamper the teaching of poetic melody.

A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature.

A collection of essays celebrating the talents of Philip Larkin, poet, critic and fiction writer who died in 1985.

This collection of Coleridge's political and social writings includes the second "e;Lay Sermon"e; of 1817 and "e;In the Constitution of Church and State"e;, printed with only slight abridgements.

In this book colour words as used in the poetry of Keats, Browning and Hopkins become crucial indicators of a way of looking at the nineteenth-century world.