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

This introductory advisor areas the Canterbury stories within the context of the trouble in English society within the fourteenth century. It examines the social range of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic variety in their stories and the mental richness in their interplay. the quantity bargains scholars a transparent photograph of the robust illustration of the social fact that makes the Canterbury stories essentially the most very important 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 heart beat of an unbroken culture in poems that talk totally to the dwelling second. instantly advisor to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and proficient social gathering of the modern, here's a booklet that would illumine the brain and cheer the center.

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 motivated, encouraged, and challenged generations of writers, readers and students on the grounds that its final touch in 1596. Hamilton's variation is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and shut studying. it's now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser.