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  • Reinterpretations

    Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson

    by J.P. Hardy ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems—L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Milton’s companion pieces, and Lycidas, Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson’s London. The critical and interpretive light which Professor Hardy brings to bear on these works constitutes a considerable reinterpretation which informs our ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Samuel Johnson

    A Critical Study

    by J.P. Hardy ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Dr Samuel Johnson’s literary works are full of variety and interest. They include biographies, essays, political pamphlets, significant poems, a body of literary criticism remarkable for its range and shrewdness, a famous dictionary, and an edition of Shakespeare’s plays.Throughout his life, Johnson suffered from strong feelings of guilt and a very real fear of insanity. These feelings had a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • On the Art of Writing

    by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch ...
    Series Book 17 - Writing & Publishing References
    "The art of writing is a living business,"Declares Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in the Preface to this classic. "Literature is not a mere science, to be studied; but an art, to be practiced. Great as is our own literature, we must consider it as a legacy to be improved . . . if we persist in striving to write well, we can easily resign to other nations all the secondary fame."Renowned as a critic, ... Read more

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  • A History of Elizabethan Literature

    by George Saintsbury ...
    According to Wikipedia: "George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 - 28 January 1933), was an English writer and critic.... His first book, A Primer of French Literature (1880), and his Short History of French Literature (1882), were followed by a series of editions of French classics and of books and articles on the history of French literature, which made him the most prominent English ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Poets

    A Selection

    by Samuel Johnson, John Mullan ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Coleridge

    by Katharine Cooke ...
    Series series RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge
    First published in 1979, this book provides thorough a guide through Coleridge’s diverse body of work, looking not just his poetry but also his literary criticism and theories, plays, political journalism and theory, and writings on religion and philosophy. The author is careful to avoid emphasising one aspect of his work over another and consequently the whole emerges as a richer, more complete ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals)

    by Eric Rothstein ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780, a period which, although largely recovered from its nineteenth-century reputation, still attracts widely varying critical responses. Abandoning the old labels such as ‘neoclassicism’, ‘romanticism’ and ‘sensibility’, the author focuses on descriptions of genres and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

    by David Fairer ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject.This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works

    The Eight Titles Include: An Experiment in Criticism; The Allegory of Love; The Discarded Image; Studies in Words; Image and Imagination; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Selected Literary Essays; and The Personal Heresy

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    With his trademark warmth and wit, Lewis offers invaluable insight and intellectual delight for readers.Includes: An Experiment in Criticism The Allegory of Love The Discarded Image Studies in Words Image and Imagination Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature Selected Literary Essays The Personal Heresy ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • A History of English Literature

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Legacy of English Literary Tradition

    by Robert Huntington Fletcher, Everett Cole ...
    In "A History of English Literature," Robert Huntington Fletcher offers a comprehensive and insightful examination of the evolution of English literature from its inception to the early 20th century. The book meticulously traces the pivotal movements, notable authors, and key texts that have shaped the literary landscape of England, employing an accessible yet erudite style. Fletcher's analytical ... Read more

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  • Selected Literary Essays

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism," to Shakespeare and Bunyan, and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • English Literature

    Its History and Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World

    by William J. Long ...
    This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature. The second is to interpret literature both personally and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD