The only complete anthology of the twentieth-century American modernist's poetry includes more than fifty poems not previously collected, early versions of famous poems, and the most comprehensive selection of his prose writings yet published. (view table of contents)

Encompasses biographical entries on more than one thousand novelists, poets, short-story wirters, and playwrights from the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Africa, and the Caribbean, along with bibliographical listings of each author's works. UP.

A unique guide to the twentieth century novel surveys and synopsizes 750 significant novels written in English, chronologically arranges them from earliest to most recent, and provides background on novelists, excerpts, and a calendar of world events for each year. UP.

Product Description: Andrew Marvell lived through some of the most momentous events in English history, but his poetry is detached and private, mostly lyrical, strikingly original in its combining of existing traditions, and seemingly untouched for the most part by what was happening around him...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

During the past 50 years the study of literature has given successive prominence to history, formalism and to theory. In such books as "The Sense of an Ending" "The Classic" "The Genesis of Secrecy" and "History and Value", Frank Kermode has always kept these features of literature simultaneously in focus. In this book he sets out to reestablish contact between literary history and poetic form in readings of Horace, Marvell and Auden. In part an explicit comment on New Historicism, this lecture is accompanied by a manifesto for literary study of the Bible informed by historical scholarship, techniques of close reading and by the theory of narrative.

Product Description: "The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity, is to an incalculable extent a history of error." So writes Frank Kermode of a history to which he has contributed many luminous pages...read more

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Product Description: This study, first published in 1960, aims to show how to read Stevens. There have since been many critical accounts of Stevens, which are listed in the bibliography. Kermode also wrote an introduction for this new edition of his essay in which he recalls how insecure Stevens' reputation was in the 1950s...read more

Examines the styles of such notables as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Milton and analyzes debates on literary canon and biblical criticism

Simon, in his mid-twenties, falls in love with Nya, a thirteen-year-old girl, who was raised as a child of nature

Discusses the English novel, literary themes, the nature of reading, narrative sequence, and rules of modern literary criticism

Attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the past

Analyzes in detail the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to understand how meaning is concealed and how it is revealed

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century

Sketches Lawrence's early life and studies the way in which he attempted to incorporate his ideals and convictions in his prose

A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century

Works by such authors as Hardy, Conrad, Eliot, Huxley, and Lawrence focus on man's relation to the intellectual developments and social upheavals of the twentieth century.