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English Romantic Poetry
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 54.00From Blake to Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Shelley, this volume provides a critical overview on the poets who defined the English Romantic period. Specific topics such as the forms and characteristics of English Romantic poetry are addressed. more...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Admired by his generation for giving a voice to their doubts, beliefs, and clouded hopes, Tennyson was one of the leading British poets of mid- to late 19th century and is respected today for the skill and delicacy with which he crafted his greatest works, including In Memoriam A.H.H., Idylls of the King, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."... more...
Lyrik zwischen Liebe und Politik
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 36.37Populäre Musik ist ein Bestandteil unseres Lebens. Sie kommt beiläufig aus dem Radio und dem Fernseher oder wird von uns bewußt gewählt bei Konzerten oder gekauften Tonträgern. Populäre Musik ist in der Regel in Liedform ausgeprägt. Das Lied ist naturgemäß auch Träger von Texten, die uns, ähnlich wie das Lied selbst, manchmal erreichen und manchmal... more...
Shakespeare. Mit einem Anhang: Der Bacon-Wahn
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 11.00Hauptbeschreibung Eduard Engel entkräftet mit seinem Buch über den wohl größten englischen Dichter die weitverbreitete Meinung, man wisse nichts über dessen Leben. Denn auch wenn einige Lebensjahre und Eckdaten im Verborgenen bleiben, sagt Shakespeares Werk um so mehr über seine Person aus. Sein Spiel um Äquivalente, seine beeindruckende Wortkunst... more...
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman, Volume 1: 18821897
Cambridge University Press 1972; US$ 72.00A complete collection, in three volumes, of the classical articles and reviews of A. E. Housman. more...
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
Oxford University Press, UK 2002; US$ 8.99These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. They also offer wonderfully vivid descriptions of the landscape and people of Grasmere and Alfoxden in Somerset, which inspired Wordsworth and have enchanted generations of readers. This edition includes full explanatory... more...
Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 110.00Of all the great novelists of the Romantic period, only two, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, have been continuously reprinted, admired, argued about, and read, from the moment their works first appeared until the present day. In a pioneering study, Annika Bautz traces how Scott’s nineteenth-century success among all classes of readers made... more...
Untersuchung über die Prinzipien der Moral
Felix Meiner Verlag 2003; US$ 10.91Hauptbeschreibung Hume selbst hält diese Schrift (1751), die inhaltlich eine Neufassung des 3. Buches des Traktats (Über Moral) darstellt, in seinen autobiographischen Aufzeichnungen für "unvergleichlich viel besser" als alle seine anderen Schriften. Wohl deshalb, weil er hier vollbringt, was dort nur gefordert wurde: die strikte Loslösung der Ethik... more...
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
OUP Oxford 1993; US$ 8.99In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological... more...
Selected Letters
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 8.99Dangerous as lucifer matches.'That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct source of information about the lives of the Bront--euml--;s and our closest... more...









