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

This introductory consultant areas the Canterbury stories within the context of the situation in English society within the fourteenth century. It examines the social range of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic diversity in their stories and the mental richness in their interplay. the amount bargains scholars a transparent picture of the strong illustration of the social fact that makes the Canterbury stories some of 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 residing second. instantly advisor to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and expert occasion of the modern, here's a ebook 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 considering its of completion in 1596. Hamilton's version is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and shut studying. it's now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser.