T.S. Eliot's early, unpublished poetry, including bawdy verse, outtakes from "Prufrock", and drafts of some of his well-known works. Includes commentary by the editor and by Eliot himself--from letters, interviews, and essays.
In this remarkable academic analysis of some 40 of Bob Dylan's songs, Christopher Ricks, Oxford Professor of Poetry, displays a consuming passion for his subject as well as an innovative take on the roots of Dylan's imagery. Ricks indulges in clever wordplay ("Lay Lady Lay" becomes a display of the singer's "layladylaylia"), and also subjects ...
Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen Gardner, has established itself as the ...
This biographical and critical study of Tennyson aims to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work. This edition includes upgraded references and quotations taking account of recent scholarship, notably ...
The essays in this third volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" aim to give the modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which drama exists. By presenting different aspects of the drama of the period, a wider perspective is gained. What distinguishes drama from other forms of literature? In answering this question Glynne Wickham ...
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