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  • W. B. Yeats

    A Critical Introduction

    by Balachandra Rajan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats
    This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats’s achievement and some of the means for an evaluation of that achievement. To this end both the poems and plays have been examined and some of Yeats’s critical ideas have been briefly discussed. Professor Rajan’s study provides a compact introduction to Yeats’s work, and will be of interest to the ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Milton and the Climates of Reading

    Essays by Balachandra Rajan

    by Balachandra Rajan ...
    Series series Heritage
    Scholarly criticism of John Milton's writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra Rajan. In Milton and the Climates of Reading, Elizabeth Sauer undertakes the daunting work of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Lofty Rhyme

    A Study of Milton's Major Poetry

    by Balachandra Rajan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Milton
    First published in 1970. Few books on Milton have dealt with his poetry as a whole. The present study, a discussion of Milton’s major poetry, seeks to examine each of the poems on its own distinctive grounds and also to delineate the pattern of continuity which the poems enter into and sustain. The author shows how each poem creates its own strategy of insight and demonstrates that together they ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Under Western Eyes

    India from Milton to Macaulay

    by Balachandra Rajan ...
    Spanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. Narrating this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation, Balachandra Rajan tracks this imperial presence through a wide range of literary and ideological ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • A Way of Being Free

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    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.'All I wanted to do was to remind myself at all times to just sing my song. To just sing it through all the difficulties and silences'Twelve of Ben Okri's most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom.Ranging ... Read more

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  • The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition

    A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

    by William Butler Yeats ...
    Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Redress of Poetry

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including ... Read more

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  • Seamus Heaney (Text Only)

    by Helen Vendler ...
    A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.Among Heaney’s many published collections are ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘North’, ‘Field Work’, ‘Station Island’ and ‘Spirit Level’ (May 1996), which was that rarest of things: a collection of poetry that was also a bestseller. Yet despite his popularity, Heaney’s poetry can be difficult ... Read more

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  • The History of English Poetry

    by Peter Whitfield ...
    Great poetry can indeed outlast stone and the glory of princes, and the English poetic tradition is perhaps the richest in the world. This ebook tells the story of that tradition through its towering figures Spenser and Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth and Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson and Eliot and through scores of other poets. Clear and accessible, blending criticism with imagination ... Read more

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  • Writings on Writing

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    May Sarton's lifetime of work as a poet, novelist, and essayist inform these illuminating reflections on the creative lifeIn "The Book of Babylon," May Sarton remarks that she is not a critic—except of her own work. The essay addresses questions that have haunted Sarton's own creative practice, such as the concept of "tension in equilibrium"—balancing past and present, idea and image. She also ... Read more

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