William Blake 
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Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson”s poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new …

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is among the most important literary products of the Elizabethan age, and the vast sweep of its moral, political and social concerns tells us more about the age tha …

A Poem and collection of photographs to remind a turbulent, sometime hectic world to just rest for a while …

Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about …

Contemporary Caribbean Women”s Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are c …

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 …

The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student t …

From the benighted Old Man with a Beard to the erudite Perpendicular Purple Polly, Edward Lear”s world is inhabited by a bewildering variety of oddities. One of the world”s most loved writers, Lear …

First published in 1995. This study presents techniques in the Greek epic, in various guises within literature and a commentary on the naming of Nestor, Nestor as AOIDUS, as intercessor, and as host. …