The Aesthetics of Chaosmos

Umberto Eco

Ellen Esrock, Translator

David Robey, Introductory note

Paperback 1989

Alexander Pope

John Paul Russo

Hardcover 1972

Allegory, Myth, and Symbol

Morton Bloomfield

Hardcover / Paperback

An Appetite for Poetry

Frank Kermode

This is a book in which Kermode asks the reader to share his pleasure in the literature of a set of major writers--Milton, Eliot, Stevens. Other essays draw our attention to debates on the literary canon and problems of biblical criticism and their implications for the study of narrative in particular and the interpretation of secular literary texts in general.

Hardcover 1989

The Anglo-Saxon Poems in Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader

Francis Peabody Magoun

Hardcover 1969

The Art of Telling

Frank Kermode

Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Arthur Hugh Clough

Evelyn Greenberger

In this fresh examination of Clough, Greenberger traces the intellectual development of a poet who was considered a brilliant failure in his own day, a reputation that still persists despite the fact that Clough is now attracting considerable critical attention. Her study contradicts this traditional view of him as ineffectual and uncommitted and reveals instead a complex figure whose varied interests enriched his prose and poetry.

Hardcover 1970

Arts of Impoverishment

Leo Bersani

Ulysse Dutoit

Paperback / Hardcover

The Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert

James Ellis, Editor

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems. This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as "the most original dramatist of his generation."

Hardcover 1970 / Paperback 2003

Ben Jonson

David Riggs

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy

Robert N. Watson

Hardcover 1987

Beyond Egotism

Robert Kiely

Hardcover 1980

The Book the Poet Makes

Peter Nohrnberg

Peter Nohrnberg asks the largely unexplored question of how and why a collection of lyrics is transformed into a unified book. Nohrnberg's subject is not the lyric sequence, a recognized form, but the ordinary collections of poems. For his examples the author dwells on Yeats's The Tower and Lowell's Life Studies.

Paperback

Browning's Youth

John Maynard

Hardcover 1977

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume I, 'In my hot youth', 1798-1810

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

The first volume of Byron's letters and journals covers his early years and includes his first pilgrimage to Greece and to the East, ending with his last letter from Constantinople on July 4, 1810, before his departure for Athens. Here is the direct record of his rapid development from the serious schoolboy to the facetious youth with ambivalent reactions to his perplexed mother, and the maturing man of extraordinary perceptions and sympathies and friendships.

Hardcover 1973

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II, 'Famous in my time', 1810-1812

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1973

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume III, 'Alas! the love of women', 1813-1814

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

The third volume starts with Byron at the first crest of his fame following the publication of Childe Harold. It includes his literary letters to Tom Moore, frank and intimate ones to Hobhouse, pungent ones to Hanson and Murray, and his lively and amusing missives to Lady Melbourne, his confidante through all his love affairs.

Hardcover 1974

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IV, 'Wedlock's the devil', 1814-1815

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

In this volume Byron corresponds with writers such as Thomas Moore, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, and "Monk" Lewis, with John Murray about the publication of The Corsair, Lara, and the Hebrew Melodies, and with many personal friends. A new interest is his association with the Drury Lane Theater. The crucial events of his private life at this time are his engagement to Anabella Milbanke and their marriage early in 1815--a marriage that was to last little more than a year. Especially revelatory are his letters to his fiancée and those to his long-time confidante, Lady Melbourne.

Hardcover 1975

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IX, 'In the wind's eye', 1821-1822

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume V, 'So late into the night', 1816-1817

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

In the fifth installment of this marvelous serial story, we read about Byron's separation from his wife. Besides his pleading letters to Annabella asking her to reconsider, there are level-headed letters to Murray and Hobhouse and Hunt and Rogers--all written during the tempestuous time before his final departure from England. The very best letters here are the ones from Italy; freed from the inhibitions of English society, Byron's spirit seems to expand and his letters reflect the joie de vivre that, despite his melancholy, was an inherent part of his character.

Hardcover 1976

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VI, 'The flesh is frail', 1818-1819

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death).

Hardcover 1976

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VII, 'Between two worlds', 1820

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1978

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VIII, 'Born for opposition', 1821

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Born for Opposition opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics." His Journal, written while the insurrection grew, is a remarkable record of his reading and reflections while awaiting the sounds of gunfire.

Hardcover 1978

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume X, 'A heart for every fate', 1822-1823

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1980

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XI, 'For freedom's battle', 1823-1824

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1981

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XII, 'The trouble of an index', index

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1982

The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poety

Richard Harrier

Hardcover 1975

Carlyle and the Burden of History

John D. Rosenberg

Hardcover 1986

Charles Dickens

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1958

Chaucer and The Legend of Good Women

Robert Worth Frank

Frank begins his analysis with a careful consideration of Chaucer's situation in 1386, the year he presumably began the Legend. It was, he suggests, a momentin his career propitious for change--change in subject and in art as well. The Legend reveals this change in the process of its accomplishment.

Hardcover 1972

A Choice of Inheritance

David Bromwich

For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.

Hardcover 1989

Closer to Home

Roger Sale

Hardcover 1986

Coercion to Speak

Aaron Fogel

Conrad's was a distinctive reading of the English language conditioned by his particular idea of forced speech and forced writing. Fogel shows how Conrad shaped ideas and events and interpreted character and institutions by means of dialogues representing not free exchange but various forms of forcing another to respond. Fogel proposes that to understand this form is to begin to reconsider our political and aesthetic assumptions about what dialogue is or ought to be.

Hardcover 1985

Complete Poems

John Keats

Edited by Jack Stillinger

Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Jack Stillinger provides helpful explanatory notes to the poems which give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1991

Convention, 1500-1750

Lawrence Manley

Hardcover 1980

Costly Monuments

Barbara Leah Harman

Harman begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between critical practice and belief.

Hardcover 1982

The Creative Mind in Coleridge's Poetry

Kathleen M. Wheeler

Hardcover 1982

Darwin and the Novelists

George Levine

Hardcover 1988

Death Sentences

Garrett Stewart

Hardcover 1984

Delirious Milton

Gordon Teskey

The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective, the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective, the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world.

Hardcover 2006

Desiring Donne

Ben Saunders

Desiring Donne explores the dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, from his earliest readers to his recent professional critics. Witty, erudite, theoretically engaged, but intensely readable, this study takes into account recent developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and postmodern psychoanalysis, while offering dazzling close readings of many of Donne's most famous poems.

Hardcover 2007

Early Auden

Edward Mendelson

Paperback 1983

English Romanticism and the French Tradition

Margery Sabin

Hardcover 1976

The Evolution of Shakespeare’s Comedy

Champion

Paperback

The Fall of Camelot

John D. Rosenberg

Far from being an escapist medieval charade, Rosenberg shows, the Idylls offers an apocalyptic prevision of the nightmare of modern history. Concealed under the exquisitely romantic surface of the verse is a world of obsessive sensuality and collapsing values that culminates in the "last dim weird battle the West." Perhaps the subtlest anatomy of the failure of ideality in our literature, the Idylls is not only about hazards of mistaking illusion for reality; it dramatically enacts those dangers, ensnaring the reader in the same delusions that maim and destroy the characters.

Hardcover 1973

Fiction and Repetition

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1985

Fiction in the Age of Photography

Nancy Armstrong

In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how Victorian fiction entered into a dynamic relationship with the new popular art of photography. So willing was the readership to think of the real as photographs, that authors from Charles Dickens to the Brontës, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf had to use the same visual conventions to represent what was real, especially when they sought to debunk those conventions. The Victorian novel's collaboration with photography was indeed so successful, Armstrong contends, that literary criticism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Fictions of Romantic Irony

Lilian R. Furst

This book makes a new approach to romantic irony by envisaging it in a broad European context in relation both to earlier concepts of irony and to traditional uses of irony in narration. Through an analysis of six major European narratives of the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century it illustrates the reciprocal interplay of theory and practice, and the complex and central role that irony assumes as a shaping aesthetic factor. Using a wide perspective and an original synchronic disposition of texts within its historical framework, it identifies the distinctive philosophical and literary features of romantic irony.

Hardcover 1984

Five Irish Writers

John Hildebidle

Born within a few years of each other near the turn of the century, these writers represented the first literary generation to come of age in the shadow of Ireland's twin monuments, Joyce's Ulysses and the poetry of William Butler Yeats, and their work has too long remained in that shadow. As Hildebidle demonstrates, all five authors saw in the Ireland that grew out of the events of 1916-1923 a nation that stifled the creative energies and bright hopes of its youth, and their fiction can be seen as responding in diverse ways to that reality.

Hardcover 1989

Fleeting Things

Gerald Hammond

Hardcover 1990

Forming the Critical Mind

James Engell

While offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engelldemonstrates that eighteenth-century criticism cannot be represented by just a few major critics or by generalizations about Augustan taste, neoclassical rules, or "common sense." He presents a complex and highly varied body of theoretical writing and practical application by dozens of critics. He also analyzes the continued relevance of their critical work, drawing connections with modern writers such as Eliot, Frye, Saussure, Barthes, Culler, Bakhtin, and Levi-Strauss.

Hardcover 1989

Four Essays on Romance

Herschel C. Baker, Editor

Paperback

From Copyright to Copperfield

Alexander Welsh

Hardcover 1987

George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation

Alan Mintz

In the nineteenth century, Mintz maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age.

Hardcover 1978

George Henry Lewes

Hock Guan Tjoa

Hardcover 1978

A Grouped Frequency Word-List of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

John F. Madden

Francis Peabody Magoun

Hardcover 1954

The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture

Bruce Haley

The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas.

Hardcover 1978

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode

David Perkins

This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. Perkins discusses each poet and type of poetry with keen critical appreciation.

Hardcover 1976 / Paperback

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After

David Perkins

Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

How Milton Works

Stanley Fish

Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, established Fish as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a formidable critic and the definitive statement on Milton for our time.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Hyder Edward Rollins

Herschel C. Baker

Hardcover

Inventing Ireland

Declan Kiberd

Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts--English and Irish alike--that reinvented Ireland after centuries of colonialism. Combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival, this book is a major literary history of modern Ireland.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

Invisible Friends

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Benjamin Robert Haydon

Edited by Williard Bissell Pope

Hardcover

Irish Classics

Declan Kiberd

A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a rich survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?

Nigel Smith

Smith makes a compelling case for Milton’s relevance to our present situation. In direct and accessible terms, he shows how the seventeenth-century poet, while working to write the greatest heroic poem in the English language, also managed to theorize about religious, political, and civil liberty in ways that matter as much today as they did in Puritanical times.

Hardcover 2008

Jane Austen

Tony Tanner

Tanner guides us through Austen's novels from relatively sunny early works to the darker, more pessimistic Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon--a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection. In showing her progress from a parochial optimism to an ability to encompass her whole society, Tanner renews our sense of Jane Austen as one of the great novelists, confirming both her local and abiding relevance.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

John Keats

Walter Jackson Bate

Since most of Keats's early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. This is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole.

Hardcover 1963 / Paperback 1979

John Keats

John Keats

With an essay by Helen Vendler

Jack Stillinger, Editor

Hardcover 1990

John Ruskin, or the Ambiguities of Abundance

James Clark Sherburne

Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. Sherburne provides in this volume a detailed and long overdue re-examination of Ruskin's social and economic perceptions and, for the first time, systematically places these perceptions in their nineteenth-century intellectual context.

Hardcover 1972

Johnson and His Age

James Engell, Editor

Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson's life, major figures of the age, and the novel.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

The Journals of Claire Clairmont

Claire Clairmont

The diaries of Clairmont are, so far as is known, the last of the major documents of the Shelley-Byron circle to be published. Only the writings of the Shelleys themselves surpass hers in importance for those interested in the careers of the poets and their friends. Best known as Byron's mistress and the mother of his daughter Allegra, "Claire," as she preferred to be called, is important to literary history for her role in bringing Byron and Shelley together.

Hardcover 1968

Kipling and Conrad

John A. McClure

In this skillfully written essay on the fiction of imperialism, McClure portrays the colonialist--his nature, aspirations, and frustrations--as perceived by Kipling and Conrad. And he relates these perceptions to the world and experiences of both writers.

Hardcover 1981

The Language of Power, The Power of Language

Stephen Cohen

Paperback 1988

Learned Lady

Robert Browning

In reproducing sixty-six letters in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, plus eight letters or portions of letters previously published, this book offers one of the best sources available for the last fourteen years of Browning's life. Written to a dear friend who was also a "learned lady," the letters deal with Browning's poetry, his social life, and his friendships. They also give some of his views on the nature of poetry, of art, and of religion.

Hardcover 1966

The Learned and the Lewed

Larry D. Benson

Hardcover 1975 / Paperback

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume I, 1821-1850

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In a comprehensive introduction the editors present not only the biographical background, with vivid portrayals of the dramatis personae, but also the story of the manuscripts, the ones that were destroyed and the many that luckily survived. The editors have garnered and selected a large number of letters to and about Tennyson which supplement his own letters, fill in lacunae in the narrative, and reveal him to us as his friends and contemporaries saw him.

Hardcover 1981

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II, 1851-1870

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cecil Y. Lang, Editor

Edgar F. Shannon, Editor

Volume II reveals the gradual emergence of a new and different Tennyson, moving confidently among the great and famous, yet remaining very much a son of Lincolnshire. Through the letters we learn something about his poetry, much about his dealings with publishers, and even more about his travels; and it is clear that all that he met became part of him and of his poetry.

Hardcover 1987

The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821, Volumes 1 and 2,

John Keats

Hyder Edward Rollins, Editor

Rollins, one of the world's foremost Keats authorities, has prepared a completely new edition of all the extant letters, with an extensive listing of the letters presumed missing. In addition to many letters from Keats' relatives and friends, the present work includes seven letters or other documents signed or written by Keats that appear in no English edition, and also new texts of seven other letters by the poet.

Hardcover 1958 / Hardcover 2002

The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson) Gaskell

Edited by J. A. V. Chapple

Edited by Arthur Pollard

Hardcover 1966

Letters to Molly

John Millington Synge

Ann Saddlemyer, Editor

When Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease and would die in three years. Seldom able to be alone together, they wrote letters almost daily. Synge's letters--hers do not survive--are a poignant record of a love that was foredoomed.

Hardcover 1971 / Paperback 1984

Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron

Leslie A. Marchand, Editor

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Love Calls Us to the Things of this World

Jeanne Heifetz

Paperback 1982

Marlowe's Agonists

Christopher G. Fanta

Paperback 1970

The Marriage of Contraries

J. L. Wisenthal

Hardcover 1974

Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry

Douglas Bush

A brilliant study of the continuing and changing uses of classical mythology in English poetry, this book treats most of the major and many of the minor English poets since 1680 and includes a chapter on the use of myth in American verse. It provides an illuminating overview of English poetry since the end of the Renaissance.

Hardcover 1969

The Natural Work of Art

John Anthony Williams

Paperback 1967

Nature Into Art

Carl Woodring

The nineteenth century began with reverence for nature and ended with the apotheosis of art. In this wide-ranging excursion through the literature, visual arts, and natural sciences of the era from Wordsworth to Wilde, Woodring traces shifting ideas and attitudes concerning nature, art, and the relations between the two.

Hardcover 1989

Notorious Identity

Linda Charnes

Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra--these were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare gave them new life on the stage. When he did, Linda Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore a new kind of fame--notorious identity--an infamy based not on the moral and ethical "use value" of legend but on a commodification of identity itself.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

The Odes of John Keats

Helen Vendler

Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions of language, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

On Histories and Stories

A. S. Byatt

In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, A.S. Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing her own translation of historical fact into fiction, or exploring the recent European revival of interest in myth, folklore, and fairytale, Byatt's abiding concern here is with the interplay of fiction and history.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

On or About December 1910

Peter Stansky

Drawing upon his historical and literary talents, Peter Stansky captures the dazzling world of early Bloomsbury. The picture he presents, with all its drama and detail, encompasses the conflicts and sureties of a changing world of politics, aesthetics, and character.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Original Subjects

Ala A. Alryyes

Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2001

The Pack of Autolycus

Hyder Edward Rollins

Hardcover 1969

Personification and the Sublime

Steven Knapp

Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime.

Hardcover 1985

Philosophical Writing

John J. Richetti

Hardcover 1983

The Phoenix Nest, 1593

Hyder Edward Rollins

Hardcover 1959

The Poetry of George Herbert

Helen Vendler

Hardcover 1975

Poets of Reality

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1965

Private Theatricals

Nina Auerbach

Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal.

Hardcover 1990

The Problem of Shape in The Prelude

Jonathan R. Grandine

Paperback 1968

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 22, 2002

Edited by Kathryn Izzo

Edited by Katharine Olson

Among other articles, this volume includes Toward a Breton Musical Patrimony, Paul-Andre Bempéchat; Celts and Hyperboerans, Timothy Bridgman; The Sea as an Emotional Landscape, Mairi Sine Chaimbeul.

Hardcover 2008

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23, 2003

Edited by Bettina Kimpton

Edited by Matthew Knight

Amont other articles, this volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman;.

Hardcover 2009

Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500

Bartlett Jere Whiting

This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript.

Hardcover 1968

Resemblance and Disgrace

Helen Deutsch

By restoring the poet's image to view against the cultural background that branded it as monstrous, Deutsch recasts Pope's literary career as a form of monstrous embodiment--a stamping of his own image on fragments of the cultural past.

Hardcover 1996

Revising Shakespeare

Grace Ioppolo

Hardcover 1992

Rewiewing Liberty

Joan S. Bennett

Hardcover 1988

The Ridiculous to the Delightful

Robert Nicholas Reeves

Paperback 1974

Romantic Rebels

Kenneth Neill Cameron

The rebels of the Romantic period speak more directly to the issues of today than any other group of writers of the past. This collection provides a cohesive picture of some of the Romantics whose lives interlocked in the early 1800's.

Hardcover 1973

Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder

Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Helsinger here explores the profound changes Ruskin induced in the way nineteenth-century viewers looked at nature and at art. She argues that Ruskin transformed the artist- or poet-oriented aesthetics of romanticism into a beholder- or reader-oriented criticism. Combining critical attention to Ruskin's prose with her own wide-ranging scholarship, Helsinger places Ruskin's perceptual reforms within previously unexplored intellectual and cultural contexts.

Hardcover 1982

The Sacred Complex

William Kerrigan

This reading of Milton juxtaposes the poet's theology and Freud's account of the Oedipus complex in ways that yield both new understanding of Milton and a model for psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. In a commanding demonstration, Kerrigan delineates how the great epic and the psyche of its author bestow meaning on each other.

Hardcover 1983

Satire and the Correspondence of Swift

Craig Hawkins Ulman

Paperback 1973

Selected Letters of John Keats

John Keats

Grant F. Scott, Editor

Hyder Edward Rollins, Other creative responsibility not falling within A to F above

This new edition affords readers the pleasure of John Keats' "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. This selection lends great perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet and recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005

Selected Letters, Volume II, 1921-1970

E. M. Forster

Mary M. Lago, Editor

P. N. Furbank, Editor

Hardcover

Selected Prose

John Hamilton Reynolds

Hardcover 1966

Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley

Nathaniel Brown

More than a literary study, this book is an analysis of sexual attitudes and practices in the Romantic period, and a contribution to the history and theory of feminism. In exploring the many aspects of his subject, Brown compares Shelley with his contemporaries, particularly Byron, and draws upon extensive research into the laws, ideas, and practices of the period.

Hardcover 1979

Shakespeare

G. B. Evans, Editor

Hardcover 1976 / Paperback

Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition

Robert N. Watson

Hardcover 1984

Shakespeare without Words and Other Essays

Alfred Harbage

In the title essay of this volume, Harbage admonishes the critics and directors whose modern--and often perverse--presentations of Shakespeare attempt to locate him in the theatre of the absurd. According to the author, such critics are using the actions of the plays but ignoring the words; his concern is that the plays be read and responded to as whole works of art. Thus the groundwork is laid for this outstanding collection of essays and lectures

Hardcover 1972

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 1 and 2,

Percy B. Shelley

Kenneth Neill Cameron, Editor

Hardcover 1961

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 3 and 4,

Percy B. Shelley

Hardcover 1970

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 5 and 6,

Percy B. Shelley

Hardcover 1973

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 7 and 8,

Percy B. Shelley

Donald H. Reiman, Editor

Doucet Devin Fischer, Associate Editor

Hardcover 1986

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 9 and 10,

Percy B. Shelley

Donald H. Reiman, Editor

Doucet Devin Fischer, Editor

Hardcover 2002

Shelley's Major Verse

Stuart M. Sperry

Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.

Hardcover 1988

Social Chaucer

Paul Strohm

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

The Solitary Self

Linda Georgianna

The Ancrene Wisse is a spiritual guide for female recluses, written at the request of three young anchoresses who were voluntarily enclosed for life within small cells. With rare sensitivity and discernment, Linda Georgianna analyzes this complex and skillfully composed treatise and examines its detailed portrayal of the rich, sometimes rewarding and sometimes frustrating inner life of the solitary.

Hardcover 1981

Studies in Biography

Daniel Aaron

Paperback 1978 / Hardcover

Subjects without Selves

Gabriele Schwab

Hardcover

Swift, Volume 1, Mr. Swift and His Contemporaries

Irvin Ehrenpreis

In this first volume of three the author treats in detail the events of Swift's life, the historical and social setting of those events, the evolution of Swift's character, and the composition and interpretation of his works. New and important material is included concerning Swift's family and career, his emotional life, his relations with Sir William Temple, the design and meaning of A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books.

Hardcover 1962

Swift, Volume 2, Dr. Swift

Irvin Ehrenpreis

This is the second volume of Ehrenpreis's trilogy, and deals with the period 1699-1714. The years between 1699 and 1710 were a time of training--in some ways unfortunate, as Ehrenpreis shows--for the dramatic four years which followed for Swift, as a political journalist in England.

Hardcover 1967

Tennyson and Tradition

Robert Pattison

Here is an analysis of Tennyson's major poetry that clarifies the poet's relationship to the artistic traditions he so extensively exploited and so radically modified. It is a portrait of Tennyson as manipulator, not mere borrower, of forms.

Hardcover 1980

Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism

Herbert F. Tucker

Hardcover 1988

Thomas Hardy

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1970

Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare

Angus Fletcher

This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.

Hardcover 2007

Tottel's Miscellany, 1557-1587, Rev. ed

Richard Tottel

Hardcover 1965

The Turning Key

Jerome H. Buckley

Hardcover 1984

Twentieth-Century Literature in Retrospect

Reuben Arthur Brower

Paperback

The Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism

T. S. Eliot

The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."

Paperback 1986

The Uses of Error

Frank Kermode

This book is a record of Kermode's "error," his wandering through literature past and present. He notes that "in thirty-odd years I have written several hundred reviews, an example I would strongly urge the young not to follow" From these hundreds Kermode has selected the pieces he treasures most, and they provide an example that indeed will be difficult to follow.

Hardcover 1991

Using Biography

William Empson

Written in Empson's typically witty and iconoclastic style, Using Biography is a brilliant exploration of writers as diverse as Marvell, Dryden, Fielding, Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce. It is dramatic evidence of his fiercely held view that biographical material can help us appreciate a writer's methods and intentions.

Hardcover 1985

The Victorian Critic and the Idea of History

Peter Allan Dale

Hardcover 1977

The Winnington Letters

John Ruskin

Hardcover 1969

Wordsworth

Mark L. Reed

As a poet whose art developed in a remarkably coherent chronological pattern and whose overt use of his own life for the subject matter of his verse was unparalleled in extent, Wordsworth presents an especially compelling claim to such systematic treatment. An invaluable tool for students of this major writer and of the Romantic period generally, this book offers a rapid means of access to factual information for any type of study making use of either the dates or relative order of Wordsworth's writings or personal experiences.

Hardcover 1975

Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity

David Perkins

This book presents not just the Romantic Wordsworth, but Wordsworth as part of a large historical movement in poetry, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present day. It concentrates on the difficult, much discussed, but little analyzed problem of "sincerity" in poetry, which it treats both critically and historically, as a demand relatively new in Wordsworth's time and still with us.

Hardcover 1964

The Worlds of Victorian Fiction

Jerome H. Buckley

Hardcover 1975 / Paperback