Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse (Poetry)
Rudyard Kipling was the barrack-room balladeer and the unrivalled poet laureate of the common man. He was born in Bombay in 1865, and after schooling in England he returned to India and started his writing career. He settled in Sussex after the Boer War and concentrated on verse and short stories. In her… More
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The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810
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The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810
A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grown ever since, as we see from series like Penguin Classics and Oxford World Classics. Bonnell explores the origins of this phenomenon, analysing more than a dozen… More
Canterbury Tales (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
On a spring day in April–sometime in the waning years of the 14th century–29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous… More
English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (Longman Literature in English Series)
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English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (Longman Literature in English Series)
Provides a comprehensive and entertaining account of the vitality and variety of achievement in seventeenth-century English poetry. Revised and up-dated throughout, Dr Parfitt has added new material on poets as varied as Marvell and Traherne. There is also a completely new chapter on women poets of the seventeenth century which considers the… More
Chaucer’s Dream Poetry: Logman’s Annotated Text (Longman Annotated Texts)
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Chaucer’s Dream Poetry: Logman’s Annotated Text (Longman Annotated Texts)
Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer’s Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems… More