The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
Author | : Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1190 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1190 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : Philip Larkin |
Publisher | : Oxford Books of Verse |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780198121374 |
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Author | : Helen Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : P J Keegan |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1184 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141941871 |
This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.
Author | : Daniel Sawyer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-05-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198857772 |
Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence, from the weights of books in medieval bindings to relationships between rhyme and syntax. It combines literary-critical close readings, detailed case studies of particular surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys drawing on continental European traditions of quantitative codicology to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period. The small- and large-scale formal features of poetry affected reading subtly but extensively, determining how readers might move through books and even shaping physical books themselves. Readers' responses to one formal feature, rhyme, meanwhile, evince a habitual but therefore deep-rooted formalism which can support and enhance close readings today. Reading English Verse in Manuscript sheds fresh light on poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Thomas Hoccleve, but also shows how their works were read in manuscript in the context of a much larger mass of anonymous poems that influenced canonical poems, in a pattern of mutual influence.
Author | : Adrian Poole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.
Author | : John Gross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.
Author | : Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Antonia Susan Byatt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Angleterre - Mœurs et coutumes - Romans, nouvelles, etc |
ISBN | : 9780192881113 |
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'