Sir Walter Scott is the great poet of the Scottish people, yet he wrote at a time when Scottish culture and landscapes were changing rapidly under English pressure. Introducing this selection, James Reed sets Scott in context as both a European Romantic and a Scottish folk poet.
Sir Walter Scott is the great poet of the Scottish people, yet he wrote at a time when Scottish culture and landscapes were changing rapidly under Eng...
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was known to his contemporaries as the most accomplished gentleman of his age, noble, learned and elegant. A man of his time, at the centre of the dangerous power games of the court of Henry VIII, Surrey was beheaded for his role in a conspiracy over the succession. His poetry reflects that world, in its idealisation of the aristocratic virtues of chivalry and honour, its rich language and formal sophistication.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was known to his contemporaries as the most accomplished gentleman of his age, noble, learned and elegant. A man of his t...
Rooted in the wild and beautiful country that lies between England and Scotland, the ballads that comprise this selection offer insights into a lawless region that owed allegiance to neither Edinburgh nor London, rather to kin and laird.
Rooted in the wild and beautiful country that lies between England and Scotland, the ballads that comprise this selection offer insights into a lawles...
Modern annotations and a glossary accompany the satire, parody, lyricism, and allegory featured in this new selection of poems by John Skelton, who lived from approximately 1464 to 1529. England's first great modern poet, Skelton's work still has the power to surprise and shock with its formal inventiveness and its indictments of church, scholars, and state.
Modern annotations and a glossary accompany the satire, parody, lyricism, and allegory featured in this new selection of poems by John Skelton, who li...
The works of Arthur Clough, a poet whose work both reflected and questioned the values of 19th-century England, are collected in this compilation. With wry, wise tones, these poems explore the tensions of a time of radical change in the religious, political, and literary landscape. The critically acclaimed narrative verse "The Bothie of Tober-Na Vuolich" and the epistolary "Amours de Voyage" are included.
The works of Arthur Clough, a poet whose work both reflected and questioned the values of 19th-century England, are collected in this compilation. Wit...
This collection of medieval poems is full of the same virility, elegiac power, eroticism, and satire that colored the life of celebrated Scottish poet William Dunbar. An introduction and extensive notes on his life and works, including his career as a priest and his royal employment, are also included.
This collection of medieval poems is full of the same virility, elegiac power, eroticism, and satire that colored the life of celebrated Scottish poet...
A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters the vampyre. This short story reveals the seductive figure of evil, who continues to exert a powerful influence over popular culture and who cemented Polidori's status within the Gothic tradition. This collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and hard-to-find works, including a medical thesis on nightmares, an essay on the source of pleasures, poetry and personal diaries, and the novel Modern Oedipus. These works...
A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious character...
The first rigorously metrical translation of Horace s classic work in many years, this collection combines a staunch respect for the meaning of the Latin verse, which appears on facing pages, with an ebullient sense of these varied poems as worksin English. A line-for-line rendition that finds English equivalents for the original quantitative meters, the volume captures both the tenderness and occasional irascibility of the great Augustan poet. The book also contains useful end notes for those wishing to better understand Horace s allusions and mythological proper names."
The first rigorously metrical translation of Horace s classic work in many years, this collection combines a staunch respect for the meaning of the La...
The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre series provides policy makers, commissioners, managers, primary care professionals and user organizations with up-to-date multi-disciplinary research on important issues that inform future decision making for primary care development. This book examines the key factors shaping the relationship between demand for, and use of, primary care. It provides a detailed picture with which to inform the planning of appropriate, acceptable and responsive primary care services. Patients' perceptions are important, not only because they are a...
The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre series provides policy makers, commissioners, managers, primary care professionals and user ...
Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers and place it as an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are called Midsummer Cushions.' This 'cottage custom'suggested the title to him for this collection. The texts of the poems are those which Clare himself wanted to publish in 1832, but for which he could not find a sufficient number of subscribers. Almost a third of the book's 391 poems were published for the first time when this collection first appeared in 1978. These poems, edited by Anne Tibble, a...
Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers and place it as an or...
