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This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his 'ambivalent' allegiance in the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-11-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-10-09
Format(s) : PDF
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'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.'
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-07-10
Format(s) : PDF
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This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona offers a complete consideration of all aspects of the text. It interprets the play less as a contribution to a Renaissance literary debate between love and friendship (the traditional academic view) than as a dramatization of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-07-10
Format(s) : PDF
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'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.'
George Eliot
Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-04-17
Format(s) : ePub
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'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.'
George Eliot
Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-04-17
Format(s) : PDF
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Gerard Manley Hopkins initially planned to become a poet-artist. For five years he trained his eye, learned about contemporary art and architecture, and made friends in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Phillips,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-12-06
Format(s) : PDF
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In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-12-06
Format(s) : PDF
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There has never been a book about Blake's last period, from his meeting with John Linnell in 1818 to his death in 1827, although it includes some of his greatest works. In The Traveller in the Evening, Morton Paley argues that this late phase involves attitudes, themes,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-11-08
Format(s) : PDF
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Carl Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' in the Romantic self-fashionings of figures such as Wordsworth and Byron. Situating such self-fashionings in the context...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2007-05-31
Format(s) : PDF
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More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-03-29
Format(s) : PDF
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More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-03-29
Format(s) : ePub
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George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-03-22
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George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-03-22
Format(s) : PDF
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'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.'
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-11-09
Format(s) : ePub
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'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.'
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-11-09
Format(s) : PDF
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The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-10-05
Format(s) : PDF
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-09-14
Format(s) : PDF
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-09-13
Format(s) : ePub
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Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-02-16
Format(s) : PDF
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