Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Score: 4. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney. It offers scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the place of homoeroticism and Cavalier poetry. Score: 5. An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer The prose poem has proven one of the most innovative and versatile poetic forms of recent years.
In the century-and-a-half since Charles Baudelaire, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde and Ivan Turgenev spread the notion of a new kind of poetry, this 'genre with an oxymoron for a name' has attracted and beguiled many of our most beloved writers. Yet it has long remained a hidden territory - and even now, this peculiarly rich and expansive form can strike many contemporary readers as something of a mystery.
Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs the history of the prose poem for us by selecting the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed it at each stage, covering a greater chronological sweep and international range than any previous anthology of its kind. Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website.
Written originally by a team of more than distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all other readers of literature in English. The classic guide to English literature, fully updated and revised for this paperback new edition. Based on the best-selling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature.
Written by a team of more than distinguished contributors working under Margaret Drabble's editorial direction, this handy reference work provides the reader with unrivalled coverageof writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Extensively updated and expanded for this new edition, this book provides essential reading for readers.
New entries on modern authors such as Jim Crace and Ben Elton have been added, alongside new entries on topics such as travel writing and Anglo-Indian literature.
Over 5, entries provide a wide coverage, including entries on the literature of other countries. Abelard, Peter — Abercrombie, Lascelles — Ableman, Paul — Abora, Mount. Absalom and Achitophel. Abse, Dannie —. Absentee, The. Absolute, Sir Anthony.
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