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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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This study takes a close look at the language of Sylvia Plath's poetry and prose in terms of how the poetic language works rather than why she wrote ... More

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"His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled "Alastor", or "The Spirit of Solitude"". With these words, the ... More

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A selection of poems by John Keats. This book is part of a series aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist, and as such carries no ... More

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A great age of poetry speaks for itself in this anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets ... More

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What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, ... More

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The interrelationship of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern in British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history ... More

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Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered--in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. The ten essays in "Meter Matters ... More

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In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, ... More

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Attempts to define Browning's understanding of the nature and use of words and syntax by considering a full range of his texts, the ideas important ... More

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This 1999 book explores concepts of human will in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy.

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This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry that displays awareness of itself as poetry - in the work of the ... More

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Louis Undermeyer dates the modern period of English literature beginning circa 1885. He further divides the modern period into seven time periods. " ... More

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One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous ... More

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The poems in this book are dazzling celebrat ions of God''s endless creative power couched in a uniquely e xpressive poetic diction. '

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Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, ... More

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Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy ... More

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Christina Rossetti's poetry was largely ignored in the early part of the twentieth century, during the Modernist movement's backlash against much ... More

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Towards the end of his life, Coleridge began to make new selections of his poetry by genre, and in this book Holmes follows his example, grouping the ... More

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A substantial selection of Tennyson's poetry, edited according to the principles of the Penguin English Poets series. This volume concentrates on the ... More

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Edited by one of the leading scholars in childrena s literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete ... More

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous ... More

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This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late ... More

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