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

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a' Kempis,...

The Cornell Yeats edition of the poetry collection, Responsibilities, features the only surviving example of Ezra Pound and the author collaboratively revising a poem by Yeats. Working on a set of page proofs of "The Two Kings" one of the poems in the volume while they shared Stone Cottage in Sussex during the winter of 1913 1914, Pound wrote proposed revisions and Yeats then reacted to them, accepting some, changing some, and rejecting some.

This process of collaborative revision is a precursor of Pound's more extensive marking, nearly a decade later, of T. S. Eliot's...

Thomas Usk, a contemporary of Chaucer, was a figure of political and literary importance who became involved in the tempestuous politics of late fourteenth-century London. In 1384 he took part in John Northampton's agitations against the mayor of London and was imprisoned. While in custody, he had an apparent conversion experience and wrote a detailed accusation against Northampton and his followers. Shortly thereafter, while still in custody, he wrote The Testament of Love, which contains an allegorical apologia for his change of heart, a meditation on the fickle nature of worldly fortune...

• Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible, including Book III of the 'Faerie Queene' and the whole of 'Astrophil and Stella'.


• Covers a range of genres, including the love lyric, mythological narrative, sacred poetry and political poetry.


• Encourages readers to discover unusual and interesting connections and...