This study offers a comprehensive reassessment of Henry Vaughan's literary career, emphasizing his connections with George Herbert. By integrating historical scholarship with intertextual criticism, it explores the nuances of their relationship and its impact on Vaughan's work, providing new insights into his poetry and its context within the broader literary landscape.
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Exploring themes of love and lust, Jonathan Post delves into all of Shakespeare's poetry, including his renowned sonnets and narrative poems. He examines the ongoing debates regarding authorship and highlights the significant influence these works have had on readers from Shakespeare's time to the present day.
A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht uses Hecht's own correspondence to present the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004).
Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.