This highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.[...]
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789 1835) the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression, and [...]
This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate form. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of "The Prelude" was was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poet's death in 1850. In addition the editors include the two-[...]
One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two landmark books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, and general editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. This volume coll[...]
This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to the much-debated "Newreading" and[...]
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration bet[...]
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration bet[...]
"A Glossary of Literary Terms, International Edition," will deepen your understanding of and insights into the literature you love - whether it's classic Greek, modern mysteries, cutting-edge drama, or any other form - and it will open the worlds of literary forms you have yet to discover.[...]