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

This introductory consultant locations the Canterbury stories within the context of the quandary 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 quantity deals scholars a transparent picture of the robust illustration of the social fact that makes the Canterbury stories essentially the most vital texts in English literature.

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

‘A talented 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. instantaneously advisor to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and educated get together of the modern, here's a ebook that may 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 due to the fact that its finishing touch in 1596. Hamilton's version is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and shut analyzing. it truly is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser.