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On The Nature Of Poetry (Hardback)

Rainer Maria Rilke, the most famous (and important) German language poet of the twentieth century - a master to be ranked with Goethe and Heine - wrote the New Poems of 1907

Originally published in 1907, this book contains the text of Edmund Spenser's philosophical 'Fowre Hymnes'. Winstanley's introduction and notes detail the heavy influence of Platonic philosophy on Spenser's writings, particularly the role

Originally published in 1911, and reprinted many times thereafter, this book contains 35 poems selected from Browning's works of the years 1835 to 1864, including some of his more famous pieces, such

First published in 1953 as a reprinted edition of an 1897 original, this book contains the original Greek text for the third book of Xenophon's Anabasis. The book is supplied with a

Arthur Sanders Way (1847-1930) was a classical scholar well known for his skilled translations of numerous prominent texts. First published in 1911, The Lay of the Nibelung Men constitutes Way's English translation

Originally published in 1916, Marlborough and Other Poems by the British war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915) was included in the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1932. It is the 'Miscellany' edition which

Originally published in 1935, this book contains an expanded version of the Harness Prize Essay for 1934 on the subject of Shakespeare's verse. David attempts to explain the effects of Shakespeare's choice

Originally published in 1922, this book contains the Greek text of the only surviving complete speech by the orator Lycurgus of Athens, which was delivered against Leocrates. Petrie includes a detailed introduction

First published in 1925, this book contains the surviving fragments of the Annales, an epic poem by Quintus Ennius. The fragments are presented in the original Latin alongside a highly detailed editorial

F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist school, which came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and remained influential into the first half

First published in 1937, this book presents a selection of poems from Leopardi's Canti in the original Italian. Created primarily for university students, the selection was made with the idea of representing

First published in 1920 as the second edition of a 1919 original, this book contains over 100 poems by poet and lawyer Thomas Thornely. Many of the poems are witty or provocative,

Benjamin Newton (1762-1830) was Rector of Wath in the early nineteenth century, and the tutor and close friend of Charles Budenell-Bruce, the first Marquis of Ailesbury. This book, originally published in 1933,

Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967) was a renowned English author, poet and classicist, often remembered for his polemical attacks on key modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot, as well as his meticulous

Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967) was a renowned English author, poet and classicist, often remembered for his polemical attacks on key modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot, as well as his meticulous

Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967) was a renowned English author, poet and classicist, often remembered for his polemical attacks on key modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot, as well as his meticulous

First published in 1928, this book gathers together a selection of John Ruskin's relatively neglected writings on literature and aesthetics. As noted in the textual preface, 'The attention which has been given

The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and

Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and