Features six films about six very different poems from six different places in the British Isles. This title includes films that tell the story of poems - where they come from, how they work and the nature and reach of their influence and legacy. It offers additional poems about the landscape and nature of Britain.

Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on The Faith in the West program airing on the BBC's West of England Home Service. This series, called Poems in the Porch , was so popular that Betjeman received constant requests to publish the poems. This book features an important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems.

This study of the poetry of Francisco de Quevedo combines a stylistic analysis with a philosophical interpretation in the broad sense.

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry seeks to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivaled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This collection presents poems from this era that includes poems and elegies of lament by figures as Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and Vaughan.

Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of Beowulf . This book looks at this engagement, and examines both Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems.

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.

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies. This book traces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life.

Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) died young but his extraordinary poetry continues to influence and inspire fans. His long poem Un Saison en Enfer and his collection Illuminations are central to the modern canon. This title explores the young poet's relationships with his family and his teachers.

This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces the impact haiku has made on modernist poetics.

Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition.

A guide to Walt Whitman. It makes readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman's work, and of the experimental nature of his writing. It includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

Throughout his long career, Paul Durcan has continued to make passionate and moving poetry out of his own and his country's misfortunes. He is by turns a surrealist, a mystic, an Irish comedian with perfect comic timing and an angry champion of the oppressed. This title presents his writings.

Examines the relationship between ethics, politics, and poetics. This book studies twentieth-century experimental American poetry. Relying upon the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, it charts the development of ethical praxis in experimental work from the Objectivists of the 1920s, through to analysis of the Black Mountain and Beat writers.

Milton's poems Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what it means to be a poet on the threshold of a post-theological world. This book argues that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself.

'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

Presents a set of key studies on classical Arabic poetry (ca 500-1000 CE). This book focuses on interpretations of the form and function of the pre-eminent classical poetic genre, the polythematic qasida, or Arabic ode, particularly explorations of its ritual, ceremonial and performance dimensions.

It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist. This book reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity.