Author : Linda K. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521856248
An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521646802
This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Author : Linda K. Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107182476
Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.
Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107064848
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author : Annmarie Drury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107079241
Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.
Author : Jane Ogborn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 1998-07-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521627108
"But who hath seen her wave her hand? Or at the casement seen her stand? Or is she known in all the land, The Lady of Shalott?" Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are the three nineteenth-century poets explored in this collection. The mixture of complete poems and extracts introduces readers to the variety of narrative and lyric work which forms an important part of the English literary heritage. This edition aims to help the exploration of the qualities which made these poets popular during the reign of Queen Victoria, transporting readers to a world of romance, myth and fantasy. . . Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.
Author : Michael D. Hurley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107376920
Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction that will be of help to undergraduates and more advanced readers of poetry alike. The book sees form as neither ornamenting nor mimicking content, but as shaping and animating it, encouraging readers to cultivate techniques to read poems as poems. Lively and wide-ranging, engaging with poems as aesthetic experiences, the book includes a long chapter on the elements of form that throws new light on troubling terms such as rhythm and metre, as well as a detailed introduction and accessible, stimulating chapters on lyric, the sonnet, elegy, soliloquy, dramatic monologue and ballad and narrative.
Author : Matthew Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982676X
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521886996
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Author : Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521650895
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.
