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George Herbert
George Herbert
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.


Thomas Campion
Charles Simic
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.


William Barnes
Sir Andrew Motion
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William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect" (1844) and "Hwomely Rhymes" (1859).


Public Property
Sir Andrew Motion
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In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders.


Understanding Novels: A Lively Exploration of Literary Form and Technique
Thomas C. Foster
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A lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying and fun. Understanding Novels shows how a novel's structure - point of view, narrative voice, chapter construction, character emblems create meaning and form the special literary language of the novel.


England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic
Jo Carruthers
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By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society. It seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values.


Julian Barnes: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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Julian Barnes is one of the most refined British writers and distinguished intellectuals of his generation whose rich body of work has been awarded many literary prizes both in the UK and abroad. This title provides a wide range of critical perspectives on Barnes' work from early bestselling novels "Flaubert's Parrot" to "Arthur and George".


Salman Rushdie: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight's Children, is regularly cited as the 'Booker of Bookers' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the 'Rushdie Affair' certainly ...


Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed
Jeff Love
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Offers students an introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including "Hadji Murat" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". This guide also covers major themes including sex, death, authority and evil and offers an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical thought.


Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Blake
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Mad Mary Lamb
Susan Tyler Hitchcock
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"An informed and sympathetic portrait of a troubled mind and humble heart." --Kirkus Reviews


Now all roads lead to France
M Hollis
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Unholyland: The Trilogy
Aidan Andrew Dun
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Balthasar's Trilogy
Stephen Wigley
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Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) is one of the most significant and challenging of 20th century theologians. This guide shows how his reworking of theology around the transcendentals of being, the beautiful, the good and the true, is influenced not just by classical philosophy and theology but also by his involvement with contemporary figures.


The Glyph and the Gramophone: D.H. Lawrence's Religion
Dr Luke Ferretter
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D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, 'Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.' Although he had broken with the Congregationalist faith of his childhood by his early twenties, Lawrence remained throughout his writing life a passionately ...


Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory
Dr Evan Gottlieb
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A bestselling author in his own time and long after, Sir Walter Scott was not only a writer of thrilling tales of romance and adventure but also an insightful historical thinker and literary craftsman. Over the last two decades, scholars have come to see him as an important figure in Romantic-period ...


Harold Pinter
William Baker
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A biography of one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output.


Heart of Darkness: Character Studies
Dr. Ashley Chantler
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Provides an overview of the novel, "The Heart of Darkness". This book offers discussions of the narrative structure and the narrators. It includes chapters analysing the characters in relation to the text's themes, issues and historical context.


Widening Income Inequality
Frederick Seidel
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Features poems that seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see the poet rotating his caustic fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. This collection is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance.


Selected Poems of Mick Imlah
Mick Imlah
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Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009.

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