Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 61) was the foremost female poet of her day, to the extent that in 1850 she was mooted as a serious candidate for the Poet Laureate. With the publication in 2010 of a definitive five-volume edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning s poetry the first full scholarly edition in a hundred years this long-awaited collection on Barrett Browning s work from Routledge s acclaimed Critical Heritage series is both timely and desirable. After languishing for most of the twentieth century, critical study of Barrett has flourished over the past thirty years, focusing...

Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06

Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West to Russia in the East, from Scandinavia in the North to Spain in the South he inspired and provoked, was adored and reviled, inspired notions of freedom in subject lands and, with it, the growth of national idealisms which, soon, would re-draw the map of Europe. At the same time the Byronic persona, incarnate in...

This set reissues eight books that examine the work and principles of William Blake. The titles were originally published between 1953 and 1998 and analyse and comment on all of Blake s major works including his prophetic works and the "Songs of Innocence and Experience. "

Taken as a whole, this set explores many areas of Blake s life and work including the literary merit of Blake s poems, his vision and philosophy, and his religion and politics. Volume 4 provides a bibliography for Blake criticism to encourage further reading. "