Few modern critics would dispute Keats's status as one of the great English poets and many consider his 'Lamia', 'Isabella', 'The Eve of St. Agnes' and Other Poems as the most important single volume of verse to be published during the Romantic period. Perhaps more importantly, he remains one of the most popular poets of any era. This sourcebook offers an introduction to his life, contexts and work, and to the wealth of critical responses to his poetry. The Contexts section offers a sketch of Keats's brief but crowded life and excerpts from key letters, as well as a chronology and key to...
Few modern critics would dispute Keats's status as one of the great English poets and many consider his 'Lamia', 'Isabella', 'The Eve of St. Agnes' an...
Poetry: An Introduction is an accessible and clearly written introduction to the structural and methodological principles underpinning poetry and its study. It aims to equip the student, researcher, and general reader with a body of technical information that will sharpen and deepen their engagement with individual poems.
Strachan and Terry provide a lively map through what might on first experience seem the most daunting aspects of poetry: poetic sound effects, rhythm and meter, the typographic display of poems on the page, the language of poetry, and the use made by poets of...
Poetry: An Introduction is an accessible and clearly written introduction to the structural and methodological principles underpinning poetry and i...
Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a separate world from that of the 'literature' of its time. Yet satirists and parodists were influenced by and responded to advertising, while copywriters borrowed from the wider literary culture, especially through poetical advertisements and comic imitation. This study to pays sustained attention to the cultural resonance and literary influences of advertising in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. John Strachan addresses the many...
Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a sepa...
Now in its fourth edition, this is a compendium of Old Irish grammar with translation exercises. It is a companion volume to 'Old Irish Workbook' and 'Selections from the Old-Irish Glosses'. Osborn Bergin's revised edition features additional sections on the comparisons of adjectives and personal pronouns. With Notes and Vocabulary by John Strachan.
Now in its fourth edition, this is a compendium of Old Irish grammar with translation exercises. It is a companion volume to 'Old Irish Workbook' and ...
'The Tain' (meaning 'The driving-off cows of Cooley') is a legendary Irish tale set in the first century AD. It tells of a war against Ulster by the Connacht queen Medb and her husband Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge and are challenged by the Ulster hero Cu Chulainn. Written in the 12th century and set in the pre-Christian first century, the Tain is the central text in the 'Ulster Cycle'. These stories from the Tain were edited with glossary by the Celtic, Greek and Sanskrit linguist John Strachan, also the author of 'Old Irish Paradigms', the 'Old Irish Workbook' and...
'The Tain' (meaning 'The driving-off cows of Cooley') is a legendary Irish tale set in the first century AD. It tells of a war against Ulster by the C...
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a separate world from that of the 'literature' of its time. Yet satirists and parodists were influenced by and responded to advertising, while copywriters borrowed from the wider literary culture, especially through poetical advertisements and comic imitation. This study to pays sustained attention to the cultural resonance and literary influences of advertising in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. John Strachan addresses the many...
Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a sepa...
