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Informationen zum Autor Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. Klappentext Essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Claude Rawson; 1. Geoffrey Chaucer J. A. Burrow; 2. Sir Thomas Wyatt Roland Greene; 3. Edmund Spenser Richard McCabe; 4. William Shakespeare David Bevington; 5. John Donne Achsah Guibbory; 6. Ben Jonson Colin Burrow; 7. George Herbert Helen Wilcox; 8. John Milton Martin Evans; 9. Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith; 10. John Dryden David Hopkins; 11. Jonathan Swift Claude Rawson; 12. Alexander Pope Paul Baines; 13. William Blake Morton D. Paley; 14. Robert Burns Karl Miller; 15. William Wordsworth Simon Jarvis; 16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seamus Perry; 17. George Gordon, Lord Byron Anne Barton; 18. Percy Bysshe Shelley James Chandler; 19. John Keats Susan Wolfson; 20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Herbert Tucker; 21. Robert Browning J. Hillis Miller; 22. Emily Bronte Dinah Birch; 23. Christina Rossetti Linda Peterson; 24. Thomas Hardy Peter Robinson; 25. W. B. Yeats James Longenbach; 26. D. H. Lawrence Marjorie Perloff; 27. T. S. Eliot Michael North; 28. W. H. Auden Edward Mendelson; 29. Philip Larkin Alan Jenkins; Further reading; Index.
