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Product Description: This substantial anthology of documents offers students of later medieval English literature, society and history a range of interdisciplinary perspectives through which to understand the literary texts from the period 1350-1550. Informed by the latest scholarship and meticulous original research, it includes both classic texts and brings rare materials back into circulation...read more

This fascinating collection of rare and classic documents provides students at all levels with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age. Informed by the latest scholarship and meticulous original research, these documents are crucial to understanding the explosive creativity of Renaissance literature. A wide range of pedagogically designed tools help students find their way into this time of momentous social, economic, and religious transformation era, these include:• An authoritative introduction outlining historical events, religious revolution, social mobility, technological advances, global exchange, and the literary and cultural ideas that defined 'the Renaissance'• Informative headnotes, footnotes, and section introductions providing important contexts for each individual document • a timeline and a chronological list of the major literary events of the period • a guide to further reading in both early modern sources and contemporary scholarship, as well as suggestions for useful websitesThis book is an invaluable resource for all students of Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and Early Modern Literature.

Product Description: This Sourcebook provides a substantial anthology of documents for contextualising texts from the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. The documents are supported by substantial editorial, including an authoritative introduction which outlines key historical events, movements, and literary and cultural issues of the time...read more

Product Description: Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate...read more

Product Description: As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study, Steven Matthews traces, through close readings of significant poems, the flow of Yeatsian influence across time and cultural space...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The award of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney recognized not only the aesthetic achievement of his work, but also its political urgency. Here Steven Matthews presents a genealogy of Irish poetry which centres upon Heaney's recent preoccupation with the relations between poetry, politics and history...read more