Focusing on Eliot's poetry, this book serves as a detailed introduction for first-time readers and students. It explores his poems, poetic drama, and relevant prose criticism, situating them within the broader scope of his literary development, personal life, and philosophical and religious themes. The comprehensive analysis encourages a deeper understanding of Eliot's work and its significance in literary and intellectual contexts.
Focusing on the impact of Hamlet, this study explores how its themes and characters influenced various writers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining the connections and adaptations in their works, it highlights the enduring legacy of Shakespeare's play and its relevance across different literary movements and styles.
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe, via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor.
Lyrical Ballads constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject matter and its anti-conventional language. This volume contains all of "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth's preface of 1800/1802, and a wide range of both poets' other work across their poetic careers.