The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Rawson Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets. Each essay offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The Companion is an ideal accompaniment to survey courses in English literature.
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This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets. Each essay offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The Companion is an ideal accompaniment to survey courses in English literature.
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This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.
Critic Reviews
“'Rawson himself authors the article on Swift … in which he considers the different ways in Pope's and Swift's poetic reputations have suffered and been recovered.' The Eighteenth Century”
About the Author
Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University.
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