English Books on Reserve

The Description for this book, Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of his Own Time, will be forthcoming.

In this 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 ways of feeling and imagining.

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey

New Selected Poems 1988-2013 offers the poems that Heaney himself selected from his collections Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf, Electric Light, District and Circle and Human Chain.

Curran here argues that contrary to stereotype, the Romantic poets did not reject genre. Rather, they adapted traditional poetic forms to suit their own democratic, secular, and skeptical ethos--a world view recognizably modern in its dimensions.

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.