The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
Title | The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas N. Corns |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1993-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521423090 |
English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Title | The Cambridge Companion to English Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Julien Rawson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 581 |
Release | 2011-01-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521874343 |
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
The Origins of the Twelfth Amendment
Title | The Origins of the Twelfth Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | Tadahisa Kuroda |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1994-08-30 |
Genre | History |
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"Kuroda, in a concise format and readable text, offers a complete assessment of the college from its 1787 inception to its 1804 revision that has long been needed and is well worth reading." New York State Historical Association
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Clarke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1107086205 |
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne
Title | The Cambridge Companion to John Donne PDF eBook |
Author | Achsah Guibbory |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2006-02-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107494869 |
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.
The Cambridge Companion to William Blake
Title | The Cambridge Companion to William Blake PDF eBook |
Author | Morris Eaves |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2003-01-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521786775 |
Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
Title | The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Pizer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1995-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521438766 |
This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.