The Cambridge Companion to William Blake
The Cambridge Companion to William Blake

Author: Morris Eaves

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-01-23

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521786775

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Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake
The Cambridge Companion to William Blake

Author: Morris Eaves

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-01-23

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107494451

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Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake's work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake's multifarious world and work.

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0521650895

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A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Author: Claude Julien Rawson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-01-27

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 0521874343

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This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance

Author: Christopher N. Phillips

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-07

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1108372813

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The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy

Author: Steven Frye

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1107018153

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This book provides a sophisticated introduction to the life and work of Cormac McCarthy appropriate for scholars, teachers and general readers.

The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites

Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-23

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1107495512

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The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central figures in the group: among others, the Rossettis, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. This is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms. The Companion explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.

The Cambridge Companion to Byron
The Cambridge Companion to Byron

Author: Drummond Bone

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-18

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521786768

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Byron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

Author: Maureen N. McLane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1139827901

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More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

The Cambridge Companion to Milton
The Cambridge Companion to Milton

Author: Dennis Danielson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-07-22

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1107494184

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An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.