Literary studies: poetry and poets

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism.

In William Wordsworth, John Williams provides a detailed account of Wordsworth's evolution as a poet.

`That brilliant commentator on Dylan, John Ackerman' - Andrew Sinclair, Dylan Thomas: Poet of his People John Ackerman's highly acclaimed study of the poems and prose works of Dylan Thomas traces his development as a writer, linking this for the first time with his Welsh background.

'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.

Historicizing Blake puts Blake back into the cultural context of his times.

William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts between limitation and possibility, reason and energy, torment and joy.

To what extent is the distinction between 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' valuable or just?

This book draws on examples from throughout the twentieth century to illustrate the diversity of techniques used in this century's poetry.

Throughout his long working life, Tennyson was experimenting with new forms and subjects.

These studies of Shakespeare in performance take stage history as a means of knowing the play.

A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet.

New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy is a lively and varied collection of new essays on Thomas Hardy, contributed by some of the world's leading Hardy scholars.

Statutes of Liberty is the first full-length academic study of the New York School of Poets.

This poetry handbook is for anyone interested in poetry today - members of poetry workshops, students, or individuals at home.

These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H.

This is a collection of essays on The Cantos by Poundian scholars of international standing.

The last two decades have seen the business of researching and writing about Percy Bysshe Shelley change in positive and significant ways.

This Companion, designed as an authoritative biographical and critical guide to Burns, is in six sections.

Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors.

Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work.

Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy.

Following the recent publication of Philip Larkin's Collected Poems, this study draws on a previously unavailable range of work extending from 1938 to 1983.

A collection of essays and some related poems by almost 30 contemporary poets who have worked for years outside the "e;mainstream"e; of British publishing.

This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses.

A study of Shelley's poetry, approaching it from the viewpoint of contemporary Jungian analytical psychology that incorporates the theories of Melanie Klein and D.

This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life.

In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life .

Here in one volume is the entire canon of Yeat's verse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

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Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity.

A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work.

Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing.

John Donne's individuality has been heavily stressed in the twentieth century.