Product Description: This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar...read more

Product Description: A beautifully illustrated reference to Shakespeare and his time. Four centuries after he penned them, Shakespeare's plays continue to delight audiences and readers worldwide. Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the Plays is a stimulating and accessible guide to all of Shakespeare's known works as well as a revealing study of the man himself...read more

Product Description: A prominent scholar of the life and work of Thomas More, A. D. Cousins goes beyond the scope of existing studies to focus primarily and closely on More's interpretations of the major cultural categories informing his view of the common weal, the common good, and correlatively on the (good) state...read more

Product Description: The first book about Donne's writings to focus on their relations to genre. It considers what Donne took from the resources of kind and how he transformed the resources on which he drew. Most of the chapters discuss Donne's secular and religious verse but there is also discussion of Donne's religious prose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This comprehensive study of Shakespeare's Sonnets and narrative poems provides a comparative context - looking at Renaissance culture generally and Shakespeare's contemporaries such as Spenser, Marlowe and Donne. It also considers relations between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A.D. Cousins and Damian Grace edit this unique collection of scholarly essays that focus on More and academic skepticism. The contributors analyze philosophical problems in the historical contexts of More's Utopia, with scholarly investigations of his legacy of imagining and attempting to found the "good place"...read more