This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form.
Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life wri
What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of a
What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of a
Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life wri
Exploring the ways in which how we write about poetry – the language, forms and styles of criticism – lies at the heart of our critical engagement with poetry, The Winnowing Fan presents a series of r
The story of Orpheus's tragic quest into the underworld to rescue his true love Eurydice back from the dead is one that has haunted the western imagination for over 2,000 years through many tellings,
The story of Orpheus's tragic quest into the underworld to rescue his true love Eurydice back from the dead is one that has haunted the western imagination for over 2,000 years through many tellings,
For more than thirty years Jonathan Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. Part autobiography, part meditation, Desire: A Me
For more than thirty years Jonathan Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. Part autobiography, part meditation, Desire: A Me
William Shakespeare's Macbeth – pored over by students and critics for generations – is one of the most familiar works of literature in the Western canon.Macbeth, Macbeth explores how, through the act
William Shakespeare's Macbeth – pored over by students and critics for generations – is one of the most familiar works of literature in the Western canon.Macbeth, Macbeth explores how, through the act
