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Poetry
This is a guide fro all readers of poetry who might find themselves confused by the distinction between a metaphor and a metonymy or baffled by the difference between iambic and trochaic verse. This is an accessible and clearly written textbook for both the student and the general reader seeking to understand how poetry works. Stracham and Terry provide a lively route map through some of the more daunting and technical aspects of poetry, poetic sound effects and the visual appearance of poetry.
Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781
Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and howcritics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine forthe consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of theEnglish literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition.
Richard III
Has history gone full circle? Was Richard III really as evil as Shakespeare would have us believe?
Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper
Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves, and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability to emulate them. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper shows the protean nature of mock-epic at this time. It recounts the rise of mock-heroic, discusses the properties of the form, and explores its relation both to classical epic and to contemporary genres such as the poetic travesty and the novel. It also tracks the relation of mock-heroic to the concept to the sublime, especially to the low sublime unwittingly perfected by Richar...
Wasted Lives
Embark on a stirring journey through the harrowing trenches of WW1 and the quaint tranquillity of England’s countryside in Wasted Lives. As the war rages, two valiant young lieutenants find solace away from the front lines, convalescing in a serene country house. However, the peace is shattered when the estate becomes the stage for a sinister murder. Bound by duty and haunted by the spectre of war, the duo finds themselves entangled in a dark mystery that threatens to unveil secrets that could change the course of their lives forever. With each unfolding clue, they venture further into a web of deceit, coming face to face with the harsh realities of war and the shadowy figures lurking in the peaceful English meadow.
Poetry
Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:* End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks* New readings of modern women's poetry* Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises* Suggestions for further reading - both books and websitesBased on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.
