The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth
Author: Stephen Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2003-06-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825887

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. Further contributions include discussions of The Prelude and The Recluse, Wordsworth as philosophic poet, his writing in relation to European Romanticism, and Wordsworth as Nature poet. The collection, by an international team of established specialists concludes with a lucid account of the history of Wordsworth's texts, and offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading.The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.

The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English

The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English
Author: Ian Ousby
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 1998
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9781853267642

This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this area, and offers explanations of genres, movements, critical terms and literary concepts.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
Author: Maureen N. McLane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827901

More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads'

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads'
Author: Sally Bushell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1108416322

This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521874343

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Author: A. D. Cousins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825399

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic
Author: Catherine Bates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139828274

Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2006-05-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521650895

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.

A Companion to William Wordsworth

A Companion to William Wordsworth
Author: Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2003
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9788126902521

This Is Perhaps The Most Comprehensive Book On Wordsworth, Having Discussions On Most Of The Different Dimensions Of The Poet As A Critic, A Poetic Theorist, A Great Lover Of Nature, A Humanist, And As A Philosopher. In This Book, Twelve Most Important Poems Of The Poet, His Five Lucy Poems And Also His Six Sonnets Have Been Thoroughly Discussed, And The Texts Of All The 23 Poems Have Been Given. In The Three Appendices, The Texts Of Wordsworth S Three Most Important Literary Essays Preface To Lyrical Ballads (1802), Appendix On Poetic Diction, And Essay Supplementary To The Preface Have Been Given For The Reader S Ready References. The Author Has Shunned All Pedantry Anywhere In The Book, His Primary Objective Being Introduction Of Wordsworth To The Generality Of Readers. References Have Always Been Cited Whenever Quotations From Critics Books Have Been Appropriated.Contents Vol. 1: Preface; Life And Works; Twelve Select Poems Of Wordsworth; The Five Lucy Poems Of Wordsworth; Six Select Sonnets Of Wordsworth; Wordsworth As A Romantic Poet; Wordsworth S Theory Of Poetry; Wordsworth As A Poet Of Nature.Contents Vol. 2: Wordsworth As A Poet Of Humanity; Wordsworth As A Philosophical Poet; Wordsworth S Style; Wordsworth As A Critic; Appreciation And Criticism Of Wordsworth; Residuary Discussions On Wordsworth; Wordsworth And Coleridge; The Prelude; The Excursion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.