This work offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the fourteenth-century English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The methodological and theoretical landscape of medieval literary studies, the narrative structure, the significance of green, the famous pentangle, Gawain's threefold testing and temptation, and the beheading motif are discussed.
The Chosen Ground
Following the success of CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell. An audio CD accompanies.
The Laughter of Foxes (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, #38)
by Keith Sagar
This study surveys Hughes's entire achievement, including "Birthday Letters". It contains a great deal of new information, including extracts from Hughes's letters, and the first publication of the background story of Crow. There are chapters on the mythic imagination, on the poetic relationship of Hughes and Plath, and on the evolution of a Hughes poem through all its manuscript drafts. However, the main purpose is to attempt an adequate reading of his poetry, revealing the underlying quest whi...
James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, #5)
by Carol Baraniuk
James Orr (1770-1816) was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets. He wrote in both Scots and English and has been favourably compared to his near contemporary Robert Burns. A radical and a lifelong supporter of the Society of United Irishmen, Orr took part in the Rebellion of 1798, after which he fled for a period of self-imposed exile in America. Baraniuk looks at Orr's life and work, examining the changing social, political and theological context of his writing and reassessing his contributi...
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Professor Percy Bysshe Shelley
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (Shakespeare's Plays) (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Hazlitt
The critic, essayist and painter William Hazlitt (1778-1830) published and lectured widely on English literature, from Elizabethan drama to reviews of the latest work of his own time. His first extended work of literary criticism was Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1817. This volume from 1908 takes the text of the first edition and adds notes explaining complex terms to readers and an introduction by J. H. Lobban, a lecturer in English at Birkbeck College. As such it is the ideal...