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  • Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community

    by Simon J. White ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Selected Poems

    by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his work: his love poems set new standards not only of sexual explicitness but also of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

    Edited by Derek Hughes, Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Edited by Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

    Edited by Thomas N. Corns ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

    Edited by Stephen Gill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not only for his novels, including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, but for his extensive work in journalism, political polemic and conduct guides, and for his pioneering 'Tour through the Whole ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

    Edited by Derek Hirst, Steven N. Zwicker ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth

    by Emma Mason ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts - biographical, historical and literary - as well as critical approaches to Wordsworth, this ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Poetic Sisters

    Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

    by Deborah Kennedy ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    In Poetic Sisters, Deborah Kennedy explores the personal and literary connections among five early eighteenth-century women poets: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford; Sarah Dixon; and Mary Jones. Richly illustrated and elegantly written, this book brings the eighteenth century to life, presenting a diverse range of material from serious ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

    by David Fairer ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject.This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare Claimants

    A Critical Survey of the Four Principal Theories concerning the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays

    by H. N Gibson ...
    This edition first published in 1962.The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the Shakespearean plays. It provides the general reader with an outline history of this controversy and with a full description and analysis of the main anti-Stratfordian arguments. This book concentrates on the four main claimants: Bacon, Oxford, Derby ... Read more

    $73.99 USD