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Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024... Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams and assessments (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy 2
R247 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical context of the piece; find detailed discussions of key passages and characters; learn interesting facts about the text; and discover structures, patterns and themes that you may never have known existed. In the Advanced Notes, specific sections on critical thinking, and advice on how to read critically yourself, enable you to engage with the text in new and different ways. Full glossaries, self-test questions and suggested reading lists will help you fully prepare for your exam, while internet links and references to film, TV, theatre and the arts combine to fully immerse you in your chosen text. York Notes offer an exciting and accessible key to your text, enabling you to develop your ideas and transform your studies!

Ernest Dowson - Poetry and Love in the 1890s (Paperback): Henry Maas Ernest Dowson - Poetry and Love in the 1890s (Paperback)
Henry Maas
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Century of Poetry - 100 Poems for Searching the Heart (Hardcover): Rowan Williams A Century of Poetry - 100 Poems for Searching the Heart (Hardcover)
Rowan Williams
R768 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.' A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a mirror to the world around us. In A Century of Poetry, Rowan Williams invites you to reflect with him on 100 poems from the past 100 years - poems with an originality and depth that can impel you to search your heart, and to explore your own experience and emotions at a deeper level. Featuring the work of both famous and lesser-known poets, from different faiths, languages and cultures, A Century of Poetry gives you a fresh perspective on works you may be familiar with, as well as introducing you to poems you'll be pleased to discover for the first time - or perhaps discover again. These meditations, by a writer who is both a poet and a theologian, will open new doors into the experience of reading and absorbing great poetry, highlighting the ways in which their language and imagery can touch unfamiliar places in the heart and enliven the lifelong adventure of spiritual growth and exploration.

The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668-1813 - Courting the Public (Paperback): Leo Shipp The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668-1813 - Courting the Public (Paperback)
Leo Shipp
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn - Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian... Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn - Intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian (Hardcover)
S. Schwerter
R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to pre- and post-revolutionary Russia. Their attraction to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union reflects the increasing fascination with Eastern European literature among western writers. Russian authors finding their way into the poetry are, among others, Alexander Pushkin, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. By incorporating intertextual links into their work, Heaney, Paulin and McGuckian establish parallels between Russia and Northern Ireland in terms of history, politics, literature and culture. They attempt to reconsider the Northern Irish conflict through a Russian framework in order to subvert the established discourse of the Troubles based on British Unionism and Irish Nationalism. Their references to Russia allow the three poets to achieve a geographical and mental detachment in order to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation.

A Sense of Regard - Essays on Poetry and Race (Hardcover): Laura McCullough A Sense of Regard - Essays on Poetry and Race (Hardcover)
Laura McCullough
R2,754 Discovery Miles 27 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"A Sense of Regard," says Laura McCullough, "is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases."
The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range in style from the personal and lyrical to the critical, are organized into four broad groupings: Americanism, the experience of unsilencing and crossing borders, interrogating whiteness, and language itself. To read them is to listen in as the contributors speak what they know, discover what they do not, and in the process often find something new in themselves and their topic. As a reader you are invited, says McCullough, "to be moved from one sense of regard to another: to be provoked and to linger in that state. . . . To query, quarrel, and consider."
"A Sense of Regard" grew out of a recent gathering of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), where a poet's comments on the work of another sparked impassioned and contentious conversations in person, in print, and online. Though race is often thought of as an age-old topic in poetry, McCullough saw clearly that there is still much to discuss, study, and tease apart. Moving the conversation beyond the specificity of those initial AWP encounters, with their mostly black/white focus on race, these essays provide a context and a safe starting place for some urgently needed discussions we too rarely have.

Epitaphs for the Journey (Hardcover): Paul Mariani Epitaphs for the Journey (Hardcover)
Paul Mariani; Illustrated by Barry Moser
R1,039 R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Save R155 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Suicide and the Gothic (Paperback): William Hughes, Andrew Smith Suicide and the Gothic (Paperback)
William Hughes, Andrew Smith
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Suicide and the Gothic is the first protracted study of how the act of self-destruction recurs and functions within one of the most enduring and popular forms of fiction. Comprising eleven original essays and an authoritative introduction, this collection explores how the act of suicide has been portrayed, interrogated and pathologised from the eighteenth century to the present. The featured fictions embrace both canonical and the less-studied texts and examine the crisis of suicide - a crisis that has personal, familial, religious, legal and medical implications - in European, American and Asian contexts. Featuring detailed interventions into the understanding of texts as temporally distant as Thomas Percy's Reliques and Patricia Highsmith's crime fictions, and movements as diverse as Wertherism, Romanticism and fin-de-siecle decadence, Suicide and the Gothic provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of this recurrent crisis in fiction and culture. -- .

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Volume II: The Psalmes of David (Hardcover, New): Mary Sidney... The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Volume II: The Psalmes of David (Hardcover, New)
Mary Sidney Herbert; Edited by Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon, Michael G. Brennan
R9,309 Discovery Miles 93 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important woman writer of the Elizabethan era outside the royal family. This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed 'Dolefull Lay of Clorinda', her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition also provides a biographical introduction, discussion of her sources and methods of composition, textual annotation, and a detailed commentary.

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume IV. Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin (Hardcover): Christopher Smart The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume IV. Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin (Hardcover)
Christopher Smart; Edited by Karina Williamson
R8,151 Discovery Miles 81 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The present volume, which contains miscellaneous English and Latin verse, written throughout his career, shows Smart as he appeared to his contemporaries: a brilliant but wayward scholar, who threw away a life of distinction at Cambridge to engage in the raffish world of the London theaters and pleasure gardens. By presenting the poems in chronological order, it also reveals the pattern of his evolution from both academic and popular roles into a poet dedicated to Christian service. Over thirty pieces in this volume have not appeared in any previous collection, and several are reprinted for the first time since the 18th century. Translations are provided for all Latin poems.

A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion (Hardcover, New): Robert L. Gale A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion (Hardcover, New)
Robert L. Gale
R2,864 Discovery Miles 28 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history. This book is a guide to his life and writings. A brief introductory essay overviews Longfellow's life and accomplishments. A chronology then summarizes the chief events in his career. Hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries follow, discussing individual poems, his other writings, his family members and professional associates, and topics related to his life and literary achievements. Entries list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Longfellow has also enjoyed fame worldwide; in England, his poems outsold those of Browning and Tennyson. In addition to being a gifted poet, Longfellow had a brilliant career as a college professor. He wrote numerous critical works and translations, and was also a leading American Dante scholar. He frequently wrote letters, and his admirers often sought his advice on personal and professional matters.

Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Hardcover, New edition): John Smith Harrison Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Hardcover, New edition)
John Smith Harrison
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book attempts to explain the nature of the influence of Platonism on English poetry, exclusive of drama, of the 16th and 17th centuries. The subject is not treated from the standpoint of the individual poet but, rather, the whole body of English poetry of the period is interpreted as an integral output of the spiritual thought and life of the time.

Writing London - Volume 3: Inventions of the City (Hardcover): J. Wolfreys Writing London - Volume 3: Inventions of the City (Hardcover)
J. Wolfreys
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter (Hardcover): Z. Yuejun, S. Christie American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter (Hardcover)
Z. Yuejun, S. Christie
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. The method is historical and materialist, insofar as the contributors to the volume read the claims of specific poems alongside the actual and tumultuous changes China faced between 1911 and 1979. Even where specific poems are found to be erroneous, the contributors to the volume suggest that each of the poets attempted to engage their 'Chinese' subject with a degree of commitment that presaged imaginatively China's subsequent dominance. The poems stand as unique artifacts, via proxy and in the English language, for the rise of China in the American imagination. The audience of the volume is international, including the growing number of scholars and graduate students in Chinese universities working on American literature and comparative cultural studies, as well as already established commentators and students in the west.

A Manner of Utterance - the Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Hardcover, New): Ian Brinton A Manner of Utterance - the Poetry of J.H. Prynne (Hardcover, New)
Ian Brinton
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"A Manner of Utterance" offers a collection of responses to J.H. Prynne's poetry by his readers: not merely academics, but poets, composers, teachers and a painter (Ian Friend, one of whose works is featured on the cover). The contributors include Ian Brinton (also editor of the volume), David Caddy, Ian Friend, Richard Humphreys, Li Zhi-min, Rod Mengham, Keston Sutherland, John Douglas Templeton and Erik Ulman.

Greek Literature (And) Homer (Hardcover, 1877 & 1888 ed): Richard Claverhouse Jebb Greek Literature (And) Homer (Hardcover, 1877 & 1888 ed)
Richard Claverhouse Jebb
R6,991 Discovery Miles 69 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An Introduction to the Ilaid and the Odyssey

T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity (Hardcover, New): G. Atkins T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity (Hardcover, New)
G. Atkins
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this gracefully executed book, G. Douglas Atkins continues his explorations of the poetry and prose of T.S. Eliot. In highly original terms, Atkins offers a major new analysis of Eliot's debt to and use of Lancelot Andrewes, the seventeenth-century Anglican churchman, who was one of the greatest sermon-writers in the language, author of the enormously popular Preces Privatae (Private Prayers), and director of one of six 'companies' responsible for the King James translation of the Bible. Focusing on their shared attention to verbal and linguistic detail, Atkins for studies closely Eliot's 1928 collection For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order; demonstrates the poetic use Eliot makes of Andrewes's writing in Journey of the Magi, and presents a fresh and important, full-scale reading of Ash-Wednesday: Six Poems, a work heavily indebted to Andrewes's emphasis on the central Christian dogma of the Incarnation.

Constructing Coleridge - The Posthumous Life of the Author (Hardcover, New): A. Vardy Constructing Coleridge - The Posthumous Life of the Author (Hardcover, New)
A. Vardy
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances.

Byron's Romantic Celebrity - Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Hardcover): T. Mole Byron's Romantic Celebrity - Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Hardcover)
T. Mole
R1,523 Discovery Miles 15 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Byron's Romantic Celebrity" offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture and that Lord Byron should be understood as one of its earliest examples and most astute critics. Under that rubric, it investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, the material conditions of Byron's publications, and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.

John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine (Hardcover, New): H.L. Meakin John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine (Hardcover, New)
H.L. Meakin
R6,101 Discovery Miles 61 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a historical and theoretical study of some of John Donne's less frequently discussed poetry and prose; it interrogates various trends that have dominated Donne criticism, such as the widely divergent views about his attitudes towards women, the focus on the Songs and Sonets to the exclusion of his other works, and the tendency to separate discussions of his poetry and prose. On a broader scale, it joins a small but growing number of feminist re-readings of Donne's works. Using the cultural criticism of French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray, Meakin explores works throughout Donne's career, from his earliest verse letters to sermons preached while Divinity Reader at Lincoln's Inn and Dean of St. Paul's in London. Donne's articulations of four feminine figures in particular are examined: the Muse, Sappho, Eve as `the mother of mankind', and a young girl who lived and died in Donne's own time, Elizabeth Drury. Meakin's reading of Donne's self-described `masculine perswasive force' asserting itself upon the `incomprehensibleness' of the feminine suggests that the Donne canon needs to be reassessed as even richer and more complex than previously asserted, and that his reputation as a supreme Renaissance poet - revived at the beginning of this century - needs to be carried into the next.

Blake and Conflict (Hardcover): S Haggarty, J Mee Blake and Conflict (Hardcover)
S Haggarty, J Mee
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Famously, Blake believed that "without contraries" there could be no "progression." Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.

See the Virgin Blest - The Virgin Mary in English Poetry (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): B. Spurr See the Virgin Blest - The Virgin Mary in English Poetry (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
B. Spurr
R2,876 Discovery Miles 28 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a fascinating literary-critical study of the ways the Virgin Mary has been presented in English poetry, from the later Middle Ages to today. Ranging across a vast variety of approaches to this timeless topic, Spurr shows how poets have spoken of their own beliefs and preoccupations (and of their cultures and their historical periods) in giving poetic expression to the most famous woman in history. Spurr's ground-breaking account is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the history of poetry, of religious verse and of representations of the eternal feminine in literature.

The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): M. Schneider The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
M. Schneider
R1,523 Discovery Miles 15 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of the Beatles begins not with the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s, but in the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, when age-old notions about literature, politics, education, and social relations changed forever. Tracing the Beatles to their late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century poetic, musical, and philosophic roots, "The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles "weaves literary criticism and cultural analysis together to how the Fab Four--in their songs, personalities, and relations with each other--mirror the themes and history of Anglo-American Romanticism.

Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Michael Benton Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Michael Benton
R2,413 R1,881 Discovery Miles 18 810 Save R532 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.

George Eliot and Italy (Hardcover): A. Thompson George Eliot and Italy (Hardcover)
A. Thompson
R2,877 Discovery Miles 28 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study considers George Eliot's novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the Italian national revival and shows how these helped shape her fiction. Thompson argues that Eliot was able to draw selectively on a powerful Risorgimento mythology of national regeneration and that her engagement with the work of Dante Alighieri increases steadily in her later novels, where the Divine Comedy becomes a sustaining metaphor for Eliot's meliorist vision and for her theme of moral growth through suffering.

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