Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — xii+256 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). — ISBN: 978-1-3500-3934-6. This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — xii+256 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). — ISBN: 978-1-3500-3933-9 (PDF). This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 913 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-199576-46-7. I am inclined to think that we want new forms...as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both...
Routledge, 1993. - 225 p. By bringing together the emphases and techniques of modern linguistics and literary criticism and applying them to a range of poetry, from Shakespeare to the present day, A Linguistic History of English Poetry argues that poetry is uniquely and intrinsically different from other linguistic discourses and non-linguistic sign systems. A variety of...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 150 p. The Advent Lyrics, a group of Old English religious antiphons (formerly called Christ I) dating from about the 9th century, are presented in this edition as an independent group of poems disengaged, for the first time, from Cynewulf's Christ. Professor Campbell's study focuses on the significance of the antiphons as lyrics rather than...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 1999, -290 p. the work of four Victorian poets – Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy – as they show a consistent and innovative concern with questions of human agency and will. The Victorians saw the virtues attendant upon a strong will as central to themselves and to their culture, and Victorian poetry strove to find an aesthetic form...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 307 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of...
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo. 2008. 309 p. Includes Notes, Select bibliography, Index. ISBN13: 978-0-511-38673-2 ISBN13: 978-0-521-86937-9 Romantic poets, notably Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, and Keats, were deeply interested in how perception and sensory experience operate, and in the connections between...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 285 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose ‘some philosophic Song / OfTruth that cherishes our daily life.’ Yet he never finished The Recluse, his longphilosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth’s aspiration to‘philosophic song’ is central to his greatness, and changed the way English...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 284 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) The Willing Daemon: Coleridge and the Transnatural “Pagan Philosophy” and the “Pride of Speculation”: Spiritul Politics and the Metaphysical Imagination, 1795–1797 “Not a Man, But a Monster”: Organicism, Becoming, and the Daemonic Imago Transnatural Language: The “Library-Cormorant” in the “Vernal...
[2007] 929 p.; Parthian - Library of Wales This anthology consists of representative selections from the work of one hundred Welsh poets, and poets living in Wales, written during the 2Oth century. It includes 554 poems and is therefore the most capacious compendium of Welsh verse in English ever compiled. Most of the poets were either born in Wales or to Welsh parents living...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 249 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this development. The tradition of evening poetry runs...
New York: Fordham University Press, 2015 — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0823263479; ISBN13: 978-0823263479. What’s new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new. John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an...
William Collins, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0008126483. In The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels, Adam Nicolson investigates English Literature circa 1797–1798, the year, McCrum writes at The Guardian, "in which two young men of genius and their muse found the inspiration for "Kubla Khan", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and Lyrical...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 325 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 37). — ISBN: 0-511-01584-4. Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain, from the 1780s onward. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). — ISBN13: 978-0-511-50841-7. This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern...
Cambridge University Press. 2005. 240 p. ISBN: 0521842549 Why were sonnet sequences popular in Renaissance England? In this study, Christopher Warley suggests that sonneteers created a vocabulary to describe, and to invent, new forms of social distinction before an explicit language of social class existed. The tensions inherent in the genre - between lyric and narrative,...
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