George - Poetry History & Criticism 1

This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poetic development through selective examples both of individual poems and of poetic influence. Bornstein focuses most centrally on Browning in th……続きを見る

George Herbert (1593–1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of on……続きを見る

Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consola……続きを見る

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as hi……続きを見る

This major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author's often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of……続きを見る

Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resourc……続きを見る

This book is the first volume in a collective edition, the plan of which includes all the surviving records of Anglo-Saxon poetry. The main body of Anglo-Saxon poetry as it has come down to us is co……続きを見る

Late studies in the Psychology of Sex have led to some interesting speculations with regard to the poet Shelley; and it is with pleasure that I write a few lines by way of introduction to the follow……続きを見る

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles:……続きを見る

Neben der eigenen Dichtertätigkeit und ausgedehnten Reisen durch ganz Europa war George außerdem noch Übersetzer von Dante, Shakespeares Sonetten, Charles Baudelaire "Die Blumen des Bösen - Umdichtu……続きを見る

Beside the Bard argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a past that conce……続きを見る

In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And wh……続きを見る

Le livre 'Andrée' de George Duruy est une œuvre poignante et émotionnelle qui explore les épreuves et les triomphes d'une jeune femme nommée Andrée. L'auteur utilise un style littéraire riche en dét……続きを見る

In this eminently readable book, G. Douglas Atkins continues the efforts undertaken in Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading to open eighteenth-century texts to the insights of recent critic……続きを見る

John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family. Atkin'……続きを見る

John Dryden's celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism is revealed in this provocative study as the culmination of a lifelong search that began with his youth in an actively Puritan family. Atkin'……続きを見る

In this eminently readable book, G. Douglas Atkins continues the efforts undertaken in Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading to open eighteenth-century texts to the insights of recent critic……続きを見る

'There's something special about it: the storytelling is unique, so exciting, so kinetic. Even though it's in your ears, you feel like you're walking along with George.' -- Candice Carty-Williams 'H……続きを見る

Just Like Oz, a book consisting of eighteen essays, some short and some long, mostly examines the work of “wizard poets,” some well-known and even iconic, a few unknown to the wider literary communi……続きを見る

A collection of literary criticism from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind such classics as Saint Joan and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned……続きを見る

"Canadian Melodies and Poems" is a collection of works by George E. Merkley that captures the essence of Canada's natural beauty and cultural heritage. The poems are imbued with a deep sense of prid……続きを見る

Historical Manual of English Prosody is a work on prosody by George Saintsbury. Prosody ー the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech is expertly covered in this indispensable work for students of……続きを見る

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Pl……続きを見る

Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poetーthese are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s b……続きを見る

The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it. First published in 1980, this study dem……続きを見る

First published in 1966. Despite the intense interest in Coleridge in the twentieth century, this book represents the first study of Coleridge’s poetry to be published in Britain. It is also the fir……続きを見る

Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry examines the important Interregnum/Restoration poet Andrew Marvell against a background of his contemporary lyric poets. His major ……続きを見る

Neben der eigenen Dichtertätigkeit und ausgedehnten Reisen durch ganz Europa war George außerdem noch Übersetzer von Dante, Shakespeares Sonetten, Charles Baudelaire "Die Blumen des Bösen - Umdichtu……続きを見る

First published in 1951. 'The book has the sterling qualities of shrewd sense and acumen that mark the 'rational' classical school of Shakespeare criticism.' Notes and Queries 'Professor Duthie's ap……続きを見る

Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans ……続きを見る