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

Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of "The Complete Poetry" fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: "Queen Mab" and "The Esdaile Notebook." Privately issued in 1813, "Queen Mab" was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled "A Philosophical Poem: With Notes," it became...

Im 17. Jahrhundert vollzieht sich ein tiefgreifender Wandel in der Darstellung von Korper und Erotik. Wahrend die durch Donne und Crashaw reprasentierten Metaphysicals die Theologie unter dem Signum des Erotischen darstellen und zugleich das Korperliche theologisieren, kommt es bei den Cavaliers seit den 1620ern zum Bruch dieser Allianzen. Beeinflusst durch die Erfindung der Buhnenfigur des Don Juan inszenieren Dichter wie Carew, Suckling und der Earl of Rochester die Erotik als quantitative Groe und legen somit den Grundstein fur die misogyne Pornographie spaterer Jahrhunderte.

Showalter's thoughtful, detailed introductory essay is a comprehensive analysis between Rosetti's novella and Craik's essays...the biographical portrait of Christina Rossetti's conflicts makes her a vivid example of the psychological and social barriers to the development of the female poets...her description of Dinah Mulock Craik stressed this woman's common-sense approach to ameliorating the position of the working-class woman in society...useful to students of feminist theory and of Victorian literature.
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Cristina Rossetti was nineteen years...

The first book length study on the aesthetic and artistic power of William Butler Yeats, this book demonstrates the centrality in his work of the concept that art might shape life, from his earliest assay to the great poems and plays of his last years.

Debates about Irish culture have long been plagued by neat oppositions between conquering England and colonized Erin, Protestant and Catholic, stolid Saxon and dreamy Celt. Yet the greatest Irish poets have scorned such simplicities.

In this avowedly interpretative anthology of Irish verse, W.J. McCormack traces creativity of contradiction through several centuries, finding poets productively at odds with their forebears, their contemporarieseven with themselves. From Yeats's tragic laughter to the quieter ironies of Seamus Heaney, from the rambunctious narratives of Merriman and...

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widelyto Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles II sent her as a spy during the Anglo-Dutch war. Returning to England she spent some time in a debtor's prison and subsequently devoted herself to writing, publishing numerous poems and almost twenty plays between 1670 and 1689.

Because of the overtly political nature of her work, much of...

This, Waugh's first published book, marked the centenary of the birth of the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Waugh was fascinated by the...

As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic "The New World" lays claim to being the first poetic exploration of Marxist historical materialism, and his caustic short lyric The Song of the Low appears in most modern anthologies of Victorian poetry. Despite the prominence of Jones s verse in Labour history circles, and several major inclusions in critical discussions of working-class Victorian literature, this volume represents the first...