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Poems and Proseby Christina Rossetti; Simon Humphries
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 8.95This edition brings together the fullest range of Rossetti's poetry and prose in one volume, including 'Goblin Market', stories (the complete text of Maude), devotional prose, and personal letters. The poetry is arranged in a single chronological sequence to show Rossetti's poetic development. - ;'The mystery of Life, the mystery. Of Death, I see. Darkly as in a glass...'. Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is driven by uncertainty. Her poems are restrained, even secretive, but they seek nothing less than the mystery of Life and... more...
Selected Works of RD Laingby RD Laing
Routledge 1998; US$ 235.00The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus of human bondage. They are all, perhaps, strangely, familiar. In these pages I have confined myself to laying out only some of those I actually have seen. Words that come to mind to name them are: knots, tangles, fankles, impasses, disjunctions, whirligogs, binds. more...
English Lyric Poetryby Jonathan Post
Routledge 1999; US$ 36.95A comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early 17th century directed at beginning and more advanced students of literature. It seeks to assimilate many of the theoretical concerns with readings of the authors of the period. more...
Pinter Ethicby Penelope Prentice
Routledge 2000; US$ 34.95The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists. more...
Plato and the English Romanticsby E. Douka Kabitoglou
Routledge 1990; US$ 125.00Tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect (Apollo) and the emotions (Dionysus). It concentrates on the daemonic `mania' which the author sees as originating both. more...
Playboy of the Western Worldby J.M Synge
Routledge 1979; US$ 23.95Two plays by one of the leading figures in the brilliant revival of Irish drama in the early years of this century.Set book for AEB, 1995. more...
Percy Bysshe Shelleyby James E. Barcus
Routledge 1995; US$ 360.00The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. more...
John Ruskinby J.L. Bradley
Routledge 1995; US$ 325.00The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literrature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. more...
James Joyce. Volume Iby Robert Deming
Routledge 1997; US$ 52.99Writings include: Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Dubliners . 2 Volumes cover 1906-1964. Extras: Appendices include a list of the early editions of Joyce's writings. more...
Evelyn Waughby Martin Stannard
Routledge 1997; US$ 360.00Popular English comic novelist. Key themes: Catholicism and decline of the aristocracy. Writings include: Sword of Honour, Brideshead Revisited, Black Mischief . Volume covers the period 1926-1980. more...