English Alliterative Verse. Poetic Tradition and Literary History, Paperback - ***

This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from Beowulf to Piers Plowman and Sir Ga...

Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. This book presents the cul...

A cultural and literary history of Japan's former capital, exploring its religious sites, rich traditions of art and literature and its distinctive...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ross HamiltonIllustration(s): 6 halftonesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

'The English Poetic Mind' (1932) is Williams' discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English p...

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Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representatio...

A study of woodcarving from the earliest times to the Georgian period, with an emphasis on the role of carvers and their work for the Crown. The ce...

Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the extraordinary and the every...

This ground-breaking book, now in paperback, is the first comprehensive history of horror fiction to take readers from the first Gothic novel in 17...

DescriptionAbout the Contributor(s): Louis Markos (www.Loumarkos.com), Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University,...

Invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anch...

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A photographic tribute to France's most lyrical, romantic, and poetic musical tradition.Publisher: PrestelAuthor(s): Olaf SalieIllustration(s): 200...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Thomas CorserIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 2...

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English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will b...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the st...

Reducere. Worship Worthy offers Jesus-centered truth and praise expressed through alliterative poetry. It celebrates the Person and Work of Jesus, mixing the...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdIllustration(s): Black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 30C...

A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery.Publisher: WW Norton & CoNumber ...

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