This full and definitive treatment of the whole body of Milton's poetry, written by one of the country's most eminent Milton scholars, was originally published under the title Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry. With a new title and an introduction developing the theme of exile, it is now issued in paperback for the first time. "The most important single study of Milton that has appeared in years.... For a long time to come, it will be the book from which Milton's oeuvre is reviewed and from which Milton criticism seeks renewal." -Joseph Wittreich, Modern...
This full and definitive treatment of the whole body of Milton's poetry, written by one of the country's most eminent Milton scholars, was originally ...
Recent writings about Thomas More have questioned his integrity and motivation and have challenged the long-held view of him as a humane, wise, and heroic "man for all seasons." This new book responds to these revisionist studies by closely and persuasively analyzing More's writings as well as Holbein's portraits of More and his family. "Martz cuts down the revived charge of More as a bloodthirsty hunter of heretics, a furious, sexually repressed, and frustrated man. . . . This penetrating rebuttal of the revisionists deserves high commendation."--Choice "Martz draws a...
Recent writings about Thomas More have questioned his integrity and motivation and have challenged the long-held view of him as a humane, wise, and he...
Of special significance are the -Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944), - the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed -fallow- period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it. The later, wartime poems in this section form an essential prologue to her magnificent Trilogy (1944), the fourth and culminating part of this book. Born in Pennsylvania in 1886, Hilda Doolittle moved to London in 1911 in the footsteps of her friend and one-time fiance Ezra...
Of special significance are the -Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944), - the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H...
Now available for the first time as a trade paperback, Quetzalcoatl is the early version of D. H. Lawrence's great Mexican novel, The Plumed Serpent. Louis Martz says in his introduction that it presents, in terms as different as crayon is from oil, a closely related, but different work when compared with The Plumed Serpent. Most important in this earlier version is the treatment of its heroine, Kate Burns. Unlike the heroine of The Plumed Serpent, she is strong-minded and independent, the widow of a failed Irish patriot. In the end, she refuses to simply join the Mexican revolutionary...
Now available for the first time as a trade paperback, Quetzalcoatl is the early version of D. H. Lawrence's great Mexican novel, The Plumed Serpent. ...
