Fyfield Books
Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Charlotte Mew
1st Edition
Edited
By Val Warner, Charlotte Mew
March 28, 2003
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is increasingly left out od collectoins of modernist poets, and yet her feminist themes might bring new dimensions to the history of modernism. This volume collects all her known poetry and also includes examples in other genres she tried....
Selected Poems of Aphra Behn
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Hicks, Aphra Behn
March 28, 2003
This book presents a collection of the poetry of the 17th-century writer Aphra Behn. It examines the relationships between the sexes, seen from the woman's point of view. The book also includes some of Behn's translations, occasional pieces, satires, and songs....
Selected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt
1st Edition
Edited
By Hardiman Scott, Sir Thomas Wyatt
March 28, 2003
First published in 2003. Sir Thomas Wyatt stands at a crossroads in English poetry. He inherits the best of a medieval lyric tradition and, at the same time, points forward to the achievement of the Elizabethans. For the reader of today he is a modern poet before his time. This is a collection of ...
Selected Poems of Thomas Chatterton
1st Edition
Edited
By Grevel Lindop, Thomas Chatterton
March 28, 2003
This book presents Thomas Chatterton's selected poems. It includes introductions to Chatterton's life, technique, and reputation, and shows the historical significance and unexpected range of his poetry, which spans the genres of satire, elegy, lyric, narrative verse, and poetic drama....
The Earliest Wordsworth: Poems 1785-1790
1st Edition
Edited
By Duncan Wu, William Wordsworth
November 08, 2002
These early poems, made readily accessible to a general readership for the first time, offer a unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer from the outset of his career. These poems reveal how the traumas of early life forged his vision and produced the insights that would ...
Selected Letters
1st Edition
Edited
By P.M. Oliver, John Donne
June 28, 2002
Whether sharing his anxieties about his writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in his letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings. These letters ...
Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems
1st Edition
By Walter Martin
April 12, 2002
Rimbaud called Charles Baudelaire 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu'. The history of modern poetry begins with him. This is a comprehensive translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. Baudelaire contemplated ...
Selected Poems
1st Edition
Edited
By William Empson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, David Pirie
April 12, 2002
The poems and poem fragments selected by Epson and Pirie represent the very best of Coleridges work. Many of Coleridge's poems are astounding successes, but for everyone of these there are also abysmal failures making it difficult for the layman to approach this leading Romantic without guidance....
Selected Poems
1st Edition
Edited
By Clive Wilmer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
April 12, 2002
For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to art and beauty. He called the sonnet ...
Selected Poems
1st Edition
By Victor Hugo
April 12, 2002
This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work. Steven Monte presents more than eighty poems in translation and in the original French, taken ...
Sonnets to Orpheus: with Letters to a Young Poet
1st Edition
By Rainer Maria Rilke
April 12, 2002
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems
1st Edition
Edited
By Stevie Davies, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte
April 12, 2002
Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice,...