 | The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1: The Holy Sonnets
Release Date: December 1, 2005| Series: The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (Book 7) Praise for previous volumes:"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." —ChroniqueThis is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the sc...
 |  | The Hunting of the Snark (Graphic Novel)
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: Graphic Novel The Hunting of the Snark,Lewis Carroll’s classic masterpiece of nonsense verse, takes the readeron a wonderfully witty and inventive hunt for the ever-elusive Snark.The tantalizing mysteries of the poem are here perfectly matched inthese brilliant new illustrations by artist Mahendra Singh, who hascreated a visual treasure hunt, full of riddles, puns, and allusions. When asked what his poem meant, Carroll would always reply that he didnot know. But, on one occasion, he did write to friends that perhaps“…the who...
|  | Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw (The Norton Library Seventeenth-Century Series, N728)
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|  | Milton's Rival Hermeneutics: "Reason Is But Choosing" (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: April 15, 2012| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies Recent critical conversation has described John Milton's major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and authorial control in Milton's poetry. Richard DuRocher and Margaret Thickstun, together with an esteemed group of Milton scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical backgrounds, respond to this challenge. ...
|  | The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: April 3, 2003| Series: Oxford World's Classics John Dryden (1631-1700) was the leading writer of his day and a major cultural spokesman following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. His work includes political poems, satire, religious apologias, translations, critical essays and plays. This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Dryden's poetry and prose--all the major poems in full, literary criticism, and translations--to give the essence of his work and thinking.The collection includes the poems, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel as well ...
|  | The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: February 29, 2012| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde's poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. Includes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful indictment of the degradation and inhumanity of prison life; "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "The Harlot's House," and 20 others. ...
|  | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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|  | "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
Publication Date: November 15, 2003| ISBN-10: 0374528691 | ISBN-13: 978-0374528690| Edition: 1st Hail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life awayUnknown nor heeded, where low genius triesAbove the vulgar and the vain to rise.--from "Helpstone""I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet"'s remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers fortwo centuries: the tender chronicler of nature and childho...
|  | Anathemata: Fragments of an Attempted Writing
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|  | To a Fault: Poems
Publication Date: October 17, 2007Winner of the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature; winner of the 2005 Ireland Chair forPoetryAward; the only poetry book long-listed for the Guardian First BookAward."A confident hybrid of voices and styles…tenderand brilliant."—Irish TimesJourneying between his native Ulster and his adopted London, Nick Laird balances ideas of home and flight, the need for belonging and the need to remainoutside. Dexterous, fresh, and deft, To aFault does "more, in its range andambition, than any other first collection…in atleast the last ten years...
|  | Death of King Arthur
Publication Date: January 1, 2012"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of "Sir Gawa...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: November 26, 1993| ISBN-10: 0521423090 | ISBN-13: 978-0521423090English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century, an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This introductory Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, provides individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell, together with general essays on the political, social and religi...
|  | Edward Young: Night Thoughts
Publication Date: July 31, 2008| ISBN-10: 052106967X | ISBN-13: 978-0521069670| Edition: 1 During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This edition contains a critical introduction setting the poem in the context of the eighteenth-century sublime. There is a commentary which explains historical and linguistic obscurities, and a history of the poem's publication. The text is based on the ...
|  | Collected Poems
Release Date: March 6, 2007The collected works of one of the finest lyric poets of our time. Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires and translations from classical poets. Seamus Heaney has called him "a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders." ...
|  | The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Oxford Handbooks)
Publication Date: September 30, 2011| Series: Oxford Handbooks Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Miltonis a comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the early twenty-first century, bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume. The rise of critical interest in Milton's political and religious ideas is the most striking aspect of Milton studies in recent times, a consequence in great part of the increasingly fluid relatio...
|  | The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publication Date: November 2, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521028671 | ISBN-13: 978-0521028677| Edition: 1 The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important and original reevaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature.Starting with Butler's outrageous burlesque, Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes the origins of Augustan satire and its momentous departure from the religious and social writing of an earlier era. He goes on to explain the creation, from the ruins of satire, of a new poetry of nature and everyday life (emerging most significantly in the work of Pope and T...
|  | The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence
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|  | Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Publication Date: January 2003This landmark edition of William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion provides the first full-size reproduction of the Huntington Library's copy of the work, printed and colored by Blake and his wife, Catherine, in 1793. Generally seen as a continuation of The Book of Thel, this relatively early work of Blake's offers a criticism of the sexual morals of his time, presenting its author's views on the evils of organized religion, on slavery, and on oppressed womanhood. Drawings related to Visions that Blake sketched in his Notebook, now held in the British L...
|  | Savitri: A Legend & A Symbol - New U.S.Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 1995| Series: Guidance from Sri Aurobindo In this epic spiritual poem, Sri Aurobindo reveals his vision of mankind's destiny within the universal evolution.He sets forth the optimistic view that life on earth has a purpose, and he places our travail within the context of this purpose: to participate in the evolution of consciousness that represents the secret thread behind life on Earth. ...
|  | Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur
Publication Date: May 1986Describing one of the most liberating concepts to emerge in business, the author tells the budding entrepreneur how to choose an idea, how to get it approved, where to find the necessary funds, and how to make the project succeed. ...
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