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...
Rodopi, 2006. — 504 p. "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few...
Perfect Bound, 2005. — 584 p. William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed Republican. His poetry was as...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 688 p. The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 688 p. The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada,...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-0271083216, 978-0271083209. This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome — one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination — in late Middle English poetry. Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the...
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...
D.S.Brewer, 1999. — 456 p. A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Arthurian Studies, 38) (Volume 38) contains essays that are intended as a reference to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience. The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl,...
D.S.Brewer, 1999. — 456 p. A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Arthurian Studies, 38) (Volume 38) contains essays that are intended as a reference to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience. The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl,...
D.S.Brewer, 1999. — 456 p. A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Arthurian Studies, 38) (Volume 38) contains essays that are intended as a reference to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience. The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl,...
D.S.Brewer, 1999. — 456 p. A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Arthurian Studies, 38) (Volume 38) contains essays that are intended as a reference to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience. The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl,...
D.S.Brewer, 1999. — 456 p. A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Arthurian Studies, 38) (Volume 38) contains essays that are intended as a reference to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience. The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl,...
University of Toronto Press, 1974. — 341 p. As a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry. Andersson, T. M. - The discovery of darkness in northern literature Payne, F. A. - Three aspects of Wyrd in Beowulf Berger, H. and...
Arc Humanities Press, 2022. — 294 p. The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk's 'A History of Old English Meter', metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and literary history, linguistics and language...
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 as...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 1999, -290p.
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...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 634 p. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — viii + 301 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-07924-3 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry illuminates the dynamic mutual influences of poetic and translation cultures in Victorian Britain, drawing on new materials, archival and periodical, to reveal the range of...
2nd edition. — Palgrave, 2022. — xxx, 308 p. — (Palgrave Gothic). — ISBN 978-3-030-96831-1, 978-3-030-96832-8. As the subtitle of this second edition indicates, this is a book about William Wordsworth. The title of the first edition — Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form (2010) — underestimated that fact. I am therefore particularly grateful to Clive...
Medieval Institute Publications, 2019. — 302 p. This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well...
Arden Shakespeare, 2019. — 272 p. Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 272 p. Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed,...
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 defining...
Wiley, 2021. — 615 p. With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national...
Liverpool University Press, 2016. — xiv, 280 p. — ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78138-329-2, 978-1-78138-373-5. Avant-Folk is the first comprehensive study of a loose collective of important British and American poets, publishers, and artists (including Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Jonathan Williams) and the intersection of folk and modernist, concrete and lyric poetics...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 245 р. 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...
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo. 2008. 309 pages. 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...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 288 p. Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's finest poets--combatants and non-combatants alike--and considers how they address the ethical challenges of making art out of violence. Poetry,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 848 p. An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 750 p. In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, 44 authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 750 p. In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, 44 authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity–serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether...
Brill, 2022. — 465 p. — (Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 232/12; Texts and Sources 232/12). The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de...
[2007] 929 pages; 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...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xii, 206 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-11387-8. Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross — and often recross — the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 236 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England). This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons and argues that the poetic descriptions were not a reflection of these conditions but a literary device used by...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 288 p. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry, journalism, philosophy and oratory without ever quite living up to his early promise, or overcoming problems of dependency and drug...
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...
Ipswich, MS: Salem, 2011. — 276 p. — ISBN-10: 1429836571; ISBN-13: 978-1429836579 British Renaissance Poets is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. The essays in British Renaissance Poets discuss such influential poets as Thomas Campion, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. English Poetry in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 314 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as the readership of the Northern Star numbered hundreds of thousands, these poems were amongst the most widely read of the Victorian...
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...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - xv+351 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print) — ISBN: 978-3-319-95255-0. This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 239 p. The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated. Providing the first systematic index of nineteenth-century poems that were in any way involved with Persia, the...
Cambridge University Press. 2005. 240 pages. 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,...
Пермь : Изд-во Перм. нац. исслед. политехн. ун-та, 2016. – 104 с.
В хрестоматию вошли наиболее известные поэтические произведения английских поэтов XIV–XX веков, а также фрагменты народных баллад о Робин Гуде и древнеанглийской поэмы «Беовульф». Поэзия представлена как на языке оригинала, так и в переводах лучших российских поэтов-переводчиков. Дается краткая справка о...
Эл. изд. — Майкоп: ЭлИТ, 2020. — 82 с. Настоящее учебное пособие посвящено английской поэзии первой половины XIX века и предназначено для самостоятельной работы для магистрантов филологических направлений 45.04.01 Русская литература (магистр). Данное издание рекомендовано для обучающихся на гуманитарных факультетах, преподавателей высших и средних учебных заведений.
Учебное пособие. — Ярославль: Б.и., 2023. — 164 с. Эти лекции — не только разговор собственно об английской поэзии, а ещё и о том, что находится за её рамками. Человеческая культура подобна лесу: то, что кажется нам отдельными деревьями, есть часть единого живого и очень сложного организма («экосистемы», словами эколога). Пристальный взгляд на поэзию очень быстро приводит нас к...
Учебное пособие. — Ярославль: Б.и., 2023. — 164 с. Эти лекции — не только разговор собственно об английской поэзии, а ещё и о том, что находится за её рамками. Человеческая культура подобна лесу: то, что кажется нам отдельными деревьями, есть часть единого живого и очень сложного организма («экосистемы», словами эколога). Пристальный взгляд на поэзию очень быстро приводит нас к...
М.: Высшая школа, 1980. — 200 с. Настоящее пособие посвящено основным этапам развития английской поэзии первой половины XX столетия. В нем отражена борьба различных поэтических школ и направлений, прослежена типологическая общность ряда явлений, характеризующих европейскую и мировую поэзию XX века. В обзорных и монографических главах проанализировано творчество таких крупнейших...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2015. — 500 с.: ил. Два тома «Очерков по истории английской поэзии» охватывают без малого пять веков, предлагая читателю целую галерею английских поэтов и их творческих судеб. Первый том почти полностью посвящен поэтам Возрождения, притом не только таким важнейшим фигурам, как Филип Сидни, Шекспир и Донн, но и, например, Джон Скельтон, Джордж Гаскойн,...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2015. — 500 с.: ил. Два тома «Очерков по истории английской поэзии» охватывают без малого пять веков, предлагая читателю целую галерею английских поэтов и их творческих судеб. Первый том почти полностью посвящен поэтам Возрождения, притом не только таким важнейшим фигурам, как Филип Сидни, Шекспир и Донн, но и, например, Джон Скельтон, Джордж Гаскойн,...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2015. — 496 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89826-450-5. Два тома «Очерков по истории английской поэзии» охватывают без малого пять веков, предлагая читателю целую галерею английских поэтов и их творческих судеб. Первый том почти полностью посвящен поэтам Возрождения, притом не только таким важнейшим фигурам, как Филип Сидни, Шекспир и Донн, но и, например, Джон...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2015. — 590 с.: ил.
Два тома «Очерков по истории английской поэзии» охватывают без малого пять веков, предлагая читателю целую галерею английских поэтов и их творческих судеб. Первый том почти полностью посвящен поэтам Возрождения, притом не только таким важнейшим фигурам, как Филип Сидни, Шекспир и Донн, но и, например, Джон Скельтон, Джордж Гаскойн,...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2015. — 590 с.: ил.
Два тома «Очерков по истории английской поэзии» охватывают без малого пять веков, предлагая читателю целую галерею английских поэтов и их творческих судеб. Первый том почти полностью посвящен поэтам Возрождения, притом не только таким важнейшим фигурам, как Филип Сидни, Шекспир и Донн, но и, например, Джон Скельтон, Джордж Гаскойн,...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2015. — 560 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89826-451-2. Второй том «Очерков по истории английской поэзии» посвящен, главным образом, английским поэтам романтической и викторианской эпох, то есть XIX века. Знаменитые имена соседствуют со сравнительно малоизвестными. Так рядом со статьями о Вордсворте и Китсе помещена обширная статья о Джоне Клэре, одаренном...
М.: ЦК Рудомино, 2022. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-00087-212-3. Книга известного переводчика и исследователя английской поэзии представляет собой воспоминания о его поездках по Англии, по местам жизни и творчества любимых поэтов, среди которых Джон Донн и Шекспир, Китс и Теннисон, Киплинг и Йейтс. Все увиденное и испытанное в этих литературных паломничествах настоятельно требовало...
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