Claude Rawson 
Cambridge Companion to English Poets 

This book claims that Keats’s poetry is a reaction against the discourse of modernity which traumatized the human subject by creating a divide between human and nature, subject and object. It argues …

"This book is a joy" – Woman&Home, on Walking with Angels This second collection, published six years after the author was widowed, describes her journeys of discovery – of new loves, new …

Life is full of ups and downs. Gary Powell reflects on a secure but challenging start in life followed by a police career that took him all over the United Kingdom and the world, witnessing the …

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This …

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet …

Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings togetherthe experiences of those intervening years in a stunning newcollection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay”s work, we …

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he com …

”I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.” Fired by his abiding love of the E …

This book aims to gather a selection that represents the diversity and richness of American poetry written by poets who share a sophistication that promises to evolve, with continued effort and risk, …