{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-english-poets-paperback-9780521697033","title":"The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Paperback) 9780521697033","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to English Poets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClaude Rawson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521697033, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 27 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e580 pages, 4 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.91 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Rawson himself authors the article on Swift … in which he considers the different ways in Pope's and Swift's poetic reputations have suffered and been recovered.' The Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Claude Rawson\u003cbr\u003e 1. Geoffrey Chaucer J. A. Burrow\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sir Thomas Wyatt Roland Greene\u003cbr\u003e 3. Edmund Spenser Richard McCabe\u003cbr\u003e 4. William Shakespeare David Bevington\u003cbr\u003e 5. John Donne Achsah Guibbory\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ben Jonson Colin Burrow\u003cbr\u003e 7. George Herbert Helen Wilcox\u003cbr\u003e 8. John Milton Martin Evans\u003cbr\u003e 9. Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith\u003cbr\u003e 10. John Dryden David Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e 11. Jonathan Swift Claude Rawson\u003cbr\u003e 12. Alexander Pope Paul Baines\u003cbr\u003e 13. William Blake Morton D. Paley\u003cbr\u003e 14. Robert Burns Karl Miller\u003cbr\u003e 15. William Wordsworth Simon Jarvis\u003cbr\u003e 16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seamus Perry\u003cbr\u003e 17. George Gordon, Lord Byron Anne Barton\u003cbr\u003e 18. Percy Bysshe Shelley James Chandler\u003cbr\u003e 19. John Keats Susan Wolfson\u003cbr\u003e 20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Herbert Tucker\u003cbr\u003e 21. Robert Browning J. Hillis Miller\u003cbr\u003e 22. Emily Bronte Dinah Birch\u003cbr\u003e 23. Christina Rossetti Linda Peterson\u003cbr\u003e 24. Thomas Hardy Peter Robinson\u003cbr\u003e 25. W. B. Yeats James Longenbach\u003cbr\u003e 26. D. H. Lawrence Marjorie Perloff\u003cbr\u003e 27. T. S. Eliot Michael North\u003cbr\u003e 28. W. H. Auden Edward Mendelson\u003cbr\u003e 29. Philip Larkin Alan Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Poetry [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Poetry%20%5BDC%5D%22\"\u003eDC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000273293592,"sku":"9780521697033","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521697033i_29857b1a-4e77-4dcd-926e-677e32bab434.jpg?v=1691380140","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-english-poets-paperback-9780521697033","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}