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Record Nr.

UNISA996218162403316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to English Poets / / edited by Claude Rawson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

9780511975790 (electronic book)

1-107-48670-X

0-511-97579-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 559 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to literature

Classificazione

LIT004120

Disciplina

821/.009

Soggetti

English poetry - History and criticism

English poetry - Irish authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction / Claude Rawson; 1. Geoffrey Chaucer / J. A. Burrow; 2. Sir Thomas Wyatt / Roland Greene; 3. Edmund Spenser / Richard McCabe; 4. William Shakespeare / David Bevington; 5. John Donne / Achsah Guibbory; 6. Ben Jonson / Colin Burrow; 7. George Herbert / Helen Wilcox; 8. John Milton / Martin Evans; 9. Andrew Marvell /  Nigel Smith; 10. John Dryden / David Hopkins; 11. Jonathan Swift / Claude Rawson; 12. Alexander Pope / Paul Baines; 13. William Blake / Morton D. Paley; 14. Robert Burns / Karl Miller; 15. William Wordsworth / Simon Jarvis; 16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Seamus Perry; 17. George Gordon, Lord Byron / Anne Barton; 18. Percy Bysshe Shelley / James Chandler; 19. John Keats / Susan Wolfson; 20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Herbert Tucker; 21. Robert Browning / J. Hillis Miller; 22. Emily Bronte / Dinah Birch; 23. Christina Rossetti / Linda Peterson; 24. Thomas Hardy / Peter Robinson; 25. W. B. Yeats / James Longenbach; 26. D. H. Lawrence / Marjorie Perloff; 27. T. S. Eliot / Michael North; 28. W. H. Auden / Edward Mendelson; 29. Philip Larkin / Alan Jenkins; Further reading; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare,



Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.