By John Donne, P.M. Oliver
September 25, 2017
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Christina Rossetti, C.H. Sisson
June 03, 2014
First published in 2002. This is a collection of poems, songs and couplets by Christina Rossetti, including Maude: A Story For Girls, Christina's Maude is undoubtedly a self-portrait, and a highly critical one-but critical with standards of scrupulosity. The place of Christina's birth was 38 ...
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer
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 ...
By Sir Thomas Wyatt, Hardiman Scott
October 28, 2013
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 ...
By Victor Hugo
May 13, 2013
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 ...
By Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Stevie Davies
November 12, 2012
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,...
