Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Landmarks of World Literature (New))

This introductory advisor locations the Canterbury stories within the context of the concern in English society within the fourteenth century. It examines the social variety of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic diversity in their stories and the mental richness in their interplay. the quantity deals scholars a transparent picture of the strong illustration of the social truth that makes the Canterbury stories the most vital texts in English literature.

The Hidden World of Poetry - Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry

‘A proficient commentator/close reader. “A hearer and heartener. ”’ Seamus Heaney‘Adam Wyeth discloses the heartbeat of an unbroken culture in poems that talk totally to the residing second. straight away consultant to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and expert occasion of the modern, here's a e-book that might illumine the brain and cheer the guts.

Coleridge On Imagination V 6: Volume 1 (I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938)

First released in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Longman Annotated English Poets)

The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has stimulated, encouraged, and challenged generations of writers, readers and students in view that its final touch in 1596. Hamilton's variation is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and shut analyzing. it's now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser.