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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william keach”
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  • Shelley's Style

    by William Keach ...
    Series series RLE: Percy Shelley
    First published 1984. In a provocative study, this book argues that the problems posed by Shelley’s notoriously difficult style must be understood in relation to his ambivalence towards language itself as an artistic medium — the tension between the potential of language to mirror emotional experience and the recognition of it’s inevitable limitations. Through an exposition of Shelley’s idea of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Arbitrary Power

    Romanticism, Language, Politics

    by William Keach ...
    Series series Literature in History
    This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    by Samuel Coleridge ...
    One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired 'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of 'Dejection: An Ode ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • Macbeth

    by William Shakespeare, Carol Rutter ...
    'A supreme theatrical poem that has a language that eats into the soul' Michael Billington, GuardianShakeapeare's blood-soaked drama of murder, madness and the uncanny begins as Macbeth is promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by supernatural forces. Spurred on by his wife, he murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he ... Read more

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  • Romeo and Juliet

    by William Shakespeare, Adrian Poole ...
    'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • William Wordsworth

    by William Wordsworth ...
    A revolutionary voice in English verse, and a much loved and celebrated lyric poet. ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

    by Jonathan Wordsworth ...
    The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Selected Poems: Tennyson

    by Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
    Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Macbeth

    by William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems: Keats

    by John Keats ...
    Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should ‘be among the English poets after my death’. This wide-ranging selection of Keats’s poetry contains youthful verse, such ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    by William Shakespeare, Helen Hackett ...
    'He could mingle sublimity with pathos, bitterness with joy and peace and love' Aldous HuxleyIn one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies a young woman, Hermia, flees ancient Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites take an interest in human affairs, ... Read more

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  • Romanticism

    An Anthology

    Edited by Duncan Wu ...
    Series Book 5 - Blackwell Anthologies
    ROMANTICISMPraise for the third edition:“An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come.” Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary“This anthology, even more ... Read more

    $64.95 USD