This third volume completes the text of the 294 English Wycliffite sermons; the first two volumes appeared in 1983 and 1987. These 120 sermons were intended to provide material for all the weekday occasions for which the Sarum rite offers a separate gospel reading. Offering coverage of ferial days which is unparalleled in English medieval homilaries, the sermons are must reading for anyone interested in the development of later medieval theology and ecclesiology, and in the rise of the vernacular as a medium for education and academic discussion.

Volume IV of this edition of Byron's poetical works covers the period from the middle of 1816, when Byron left England, to the end of 1820. During this first phase of his exile years he wrote some of his most important and innovative work, including Manfred, Beppo, Mazeppa, and the Morgante Maggiore. These were the works, and this was the period, in which Byron moved toward the project that was to become his masterwork, Don Juan. Seventy-one poems are included in this volume, of which ten are collected in complete form for the first time. In addition, a...

The Complete Poetical Works Volume 3

A scholarly edition of Samuel Butler: Prose Observations by Helen Darbishire. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

These volumes represent the third and fourth of five volumes devoted to Clare's 'middle period', between 1822 and 1837. Poems range from satirical and political verse in 'The Summons' and 'The Hue & Cry', to an expression of his philosophy of nature in 'The Eternity of Nature', and a statement of Clare's poetic objectives in 'To the Rural Muse'.

Represents the 3rd and 4th volumes devoted to Clare's 'middle period', between 1822 and 1837, arguably the years of his finest creativity. These volumes include poems that range from examples of his satirical and political verse, to a telling expression of

George Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries as a major poet. The leading reviewer of the day, Francis Jeffrey, paid tribute to his powerful originality. Byron pronounced him 'Though Nature's sternest Painter, yet the best'. Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, who declared that she would have married him, were among his many admirers. In our own time both critics and poets have praised his penetrating insights into human motivation, his realism, and his unique use of landscape as a setting for his poems and verse tales; and he is well known as the author of Peter Grimes, on...

This is the only edition of George Gascoigne's A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres to respect the integrity of the first edition, which he published as an anonymous anthology in 1573. Earlier editors either based their work on The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire, self-censored and published in 1575, or omitted the two plays, Supposes and Jocasta. The critical apparatus of this edition allows the reader to reconstruct the changes Gascoigne made to The Posies, and all the works which appear there for the first time are included, and situates his works in their literary and social milieux.