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

This introductory consultant areas the Canterbury stories within the context of the hindrance 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 amount deals scholars a transparent picture of the strong illustration of the social fact 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 heart beat of an unbroken culture in poems that talk completely to the residing second. instantaneously advisor to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and educated party of the modern, here's a ebook that may 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 for the reason that its of completion in 1596. Hamilton's variation is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and shut analyzing. it really is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser.