Literary studies: poetry and poets

This practical reference for university and senior high school students shows how to read, understand and analyze poetry.

A collection of essays presenting an "e;insider"e; view of the Irish poetic tradition.

PMContents: Introduction: Tumbles and Leaps; Beginning in Wisdom; Towards a Rhetoric of Destitution; Excellence and Loss; History and Seduction; Defeats and Dreams; Notes and References; Index

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

An attempt to trace the origins of the romantic image of the Highlands, by examining the economic, military and ideological circumstances of the region's subjugation by the British state.

Author Michael Alexander: Michael Alexander is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews, UK.

Yeats Annual No.

The essays in Yeats Annual No 7 are dedicated to the memory of Richard Ellmann, one of the great pioneer critics of W.

This research-level publication for current thought and documentation upon the life and work of Yeats, focuses on Yeats at work on various manuscripts and on his tours of America.

Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War.

"e;Published in the U.

This book provides an introduction to the elements of poetry, formulates a series of contexts for the interpretation of poems, and offers a substantial anthology.