Poetry

This presents a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of the literary canon. Contains writings on Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Kipling, Yeats, Pound, Eliot and Hardy...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

Designed for students new to Milton's work, this sourcebook outlines the seventeenth-century contexts of its composition and examines a range of the key critical responses from across literary history. The guide also usefully reprints frequently studied passages of the poem, suggests further reading..

Designed for students new to Milton's work, this sourcebook outlines the seventeenth-century contexts of its composition and examines a range of the key critical responses from across literary history. The guide also usefully reprints frequently studied passages of the poem, suggests further reading..

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves...

First published in 1957. This title explores the brief marriage of Lord Byron and his wife Annabella Millbanke, and the scandal that surrounded their relationship. The exact reason for their separation and eventual divorce was never confirmed, but G. Wilson Knight uses Byron’s poetry, letters and ot..

In his superb introduction to Lyrical Ballads, Michael Mason examines the collection’s genesis, encouraging the reader to avoid the critical assumptions that exist around the text; his expert annotations elucidate the poems whilst retaining an enthusiasm for what Wordsworth termed their ‘strangeness..

This is the only guide to meter you will ever need and a must-read for anyone who wants to study, write or better appreciate poetic texts...

National Poetry, Empires and War considers national poetry, and its glorification of war, from ancient to modern times, in a series of historical, social and political perspectives. Many national poets are the subject of countless critical and biographical studies, but this book aims to give a panor..