The Complete Critical Guide to Robert Browning

The Complete Critical Guide to Robert Browning
Author: Stefan Hawlin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415222327

A guide to Robert Browning including information about the author's life, context and works; an outline of the major critical issues surrounding his work; and explanation of the full range of different critical views and interpretations; suggestions for further reading.

Robert Browning

Robert Browning
Author: Stefan Hawlin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113459643X

Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.

The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson

The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson
Author: James Loxley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: Jonson
ISBN: 0415222273

This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.

The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy

The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy
Author: Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415234917

Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.

The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton

The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton
Author: Richard Bradford
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780415202442

This volume is part of a series of comprehensive, user-friendly introductions which offer basic information on an author's life, contexts and works.

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett
Author: David Pattie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0415202531

This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence
Author: Fiona Becket
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release:
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1134632495

Annotation This guide moves beyond the controversy surrounding Lady Chatterley's Lover to examine the prolific output of poetry, novels and non-fiction that made Lawrence a central figure in the Modernist movement.

The Poetry of Robert Browning

The Poetry of Robert Browning
Author: Britta Martens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349928747

Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon. He is the main practitioner of the period's most important poetic genre, the dramatic monologue, while his engagement with many aspects of nineteenth-century culture makes him a key figure in the wider field of Victorian studies. This stimulating introduction to Browning criticism provides an overview of the major responses to the poet's work over the last two hundred years. It offers an insightful guide to criticism from various theoretical perspectives, elucidating Browning's participation in Victorian debates about aesthetics, history, politics, religion, gender and psychology.

Where All the Ladders Start

Where All the Ladders Start
Author: Julian Lovelock
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2023-10-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0718897250

Who were Shakespeare's 'Friend' and the 'Dark Lady'? Why did Donne risk his life and ruin his career for a seventeen-year-old girl? Why did Wordsworth's sister retire to her bed on his wedding day? Writing never takes place in a vacuum and much of the finest poetry in the English language has been inspired by particular people - patrons, spouses, lovers, friends, or just casual acquaintances. Whether relegated to an obscurity they do not deserve or thrust into prominence they did not seek, their importance to the creative process is inescapable. In Where All the Ladders Start, Julian Lovelock discusses with characteristic incisiveness and enthusiasm nine major British poets and the real lives behind some of their most personal and significant works. Along the way he shows how poetry has developed over the past four hundred years and provides suggestions for further reading, while for convenience all of the relevant poems and extracts are reproduced in full. Written for both the seasoned reader and the student encountering these poems for the first time, Lovelock's analysis will inspire and entertain in equal measure.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Author: Geoffrey Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134565356

Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century England. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work, including: the major aspects of Hardy's life in the context of contemporary culture a detailed commentary on Hardy's most important work and a critical map of Hardy's complete writing an outline of the vast body of criticism that has built up around Hardy's work with examples of recent critical debate. Exposition and guide, this volume enables readers to form their own readings of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century.