William Allan 
Rough Castings [PDF ebook] 
In Scotch and English Metal

Life is a trail of crossing paths, some barely noticed, others with profound impacts. Did Santa bring that special football or the right Barbie doll? Did you pass that tough high school teacher’s cou …

Examining how Crane»s corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine ThatSings focuses on four texts in which Crane»s preoccupation with the body reaches its a …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer»s work, enabling students and research …

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the third volume of t …

Bleak House focuses on the unimaginably drawn out trial of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a case presided over by the Court of Chancery, a body which deals in matters of trusts and guardianship of infants. C …

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be recl …

First published in 1956, this book has been described by the author as something of a biographical novel, somewhere between formal scholarly criticism and a more creative form of writing. It looks at …

Combining faithfulness to the Latin with sensitivity to Prudentius’ poetic qualities, Nicholas Richardson offers a precise yet creative verse translation of a major work by one of the most important …

Lemn Sissay»s poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city andhave been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has beenpublish …