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Medieval Romance

Critical Heritage Set

Edited by B.C. Southam

Comprises of individual volumes on: Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer (2 volumes), Sir Thomas Malory, John Skelton and Edmund Spenser.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44423-1 (Routledge)

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Milton

Critical Heritage Set

Edited by John T. Shawcross

The 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,…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44426-2 (Routledge)

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T.S. Eliot

Edited by B.C. Southam

The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44445-3 (Routledge)

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Byron

By Caroline Franklin

Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a poet and satirist, as famous in his time for his love affairs and questionable morals as he was for his…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26856-1 (Routledge)

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The Machine that Sings

Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body

By Gordon A. Tapper

Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings focuses on four texts in which Crane's…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96591-0 (Routledge)

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The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

A Sourcebook

Edited by Alice Jenkins

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins’ poetry presents:

  • extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from&8230;

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25524-0 (Routledge)

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Later English Broadside Ballads

Edited by John Holloway, Joan Black

Broadside or 'street' ballads not only give the flavour of english life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37222-0 (Routledge)

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Lyrical Ballads

By William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35529-2 (Routledge)

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Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene

A Reception History of his Major Works, 1805-1828

By Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Leigh Hunt’s contributions to English literature, although downplayed for several decades, are now acknowledged by scholars as key to our understanding of the Romantic period.…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31676-7 (Routledge)

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Things Merely Are

Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

By Simon Critchley

This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35631-2 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics
By Ross Wilson
To be published December 8th 2008

Lyric
By Scott Brewster
To be published May 29th 2009

Writing Poetry
By Bill Herbert
To be published July 30th 2009

Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
By John Wrighton
To be published August 1st 2009

Ballad
By Suzanne Gilbert
To be published December 1st 2009

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