This concise collection of Renaissance poetry includes selections from the works of Wyatt, Sidney, Marlow, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert and Milton.

• Contains a selection of the most significant Renaissance Poetry.
  
• Places traditional favourites are alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years.
  
• Includes a succinct introduction, which gives readers a sense of how poetry developed during the period.
  
• Ideal for readers seeking a first introduction to...

Old and Middle English Poetry gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer.

• Contains a selection of the most significant Old and Middle English Poetry.
  
• Encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.
  
• Places traditional favourites are alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years.
  
• Includes a succinct introduction, which gives readers a sense of how...

Old and Middle English Poetry gathers together the essential texts from the earliest writings in the vernacular up to the time of Chaucer.

• Contains a selection of the most significant Old and Middle English Poetry.
  
• Encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English.
  
• Places traditional favourites are alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years.
  
• Includes a succinct introduction, which gives readers a sense of how...

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period.

• Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era.
  
• Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century.
  
• Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period.
  
• Represents texts in their entirety where possible.

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period.

• Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era.
  
• Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century.
  
• Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period.
  
• Represents texts in their entirety where possible.

The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700.

• Includes full texts of Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World.


• Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and 1700.


• Introduces general readers or students to the genre.


• An editorial introduction guides readers through the plays and the period.
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The two plays presented in full in this volume - Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World - illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700.

• Includes full texts of Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World.


• Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between 1675 and 1700.


• Introduces general readers or students to the genre.


• An editorial introduction guides readers through the plays and the period.
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This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813.

• Looks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth's great poetry.
  
• Explains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic 'The Recluse' to his work as a whole.
  
• Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.
  
• Contains the first annotated text of 'The White Doe of Rylstone'.

Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.

Duncan Wu's portrait of William Hazlitt - covering Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era.