Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them.

• A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them.
  
• Introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle English poetry.
  
• Presents poems of mourning and of...

Goethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the British Romantic writers Coleridge, Scott, and Byron.

• Offers a comprehensive one-volume study of a major European literary figure.
  
• Deals in depth and detail with the totality of Goethe's output and activity.

Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.

By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing.

• Features new research into Wordsworth's financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially
• Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem 'The Recluse'
• Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge