Over 200 accessible and understandable poems selected from the entire collection of English language poetry.
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"This is truly magnificent poetry; the music of thought and feeling and the music of language itself is wonderfully fused". -- Denise Levertov<P>"... (w)e meet an affronted gentleness. His fine version of Anglo-Saxon 'Dream of the Road' shows how it was in the days of belief. Now in the suburbs, Christ the fox cries, or dies, maimed in a snare. Deane's poems radiate the desire of the spirit to believe despite the harshness of our world". ...

James Simmons has published many works of poetry, including Poems 1956-1986 and Mainstream (available from Dufour). He is a member of Aosdana. ...

Bryan Cheyette argues that 'the Jew' lies at the heart of modern English literature and society: not as a fixed stereotype, but as the embodiment of confusion and indeterminacy. ...

No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the ...

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
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This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions. Going beyond the standard isolation of mimeticism and hybridity -- and criticizing Homi Bhabha's influential treatment of the former -- Hogan offers a lucid, usable theoretical structure for analysis of the postcolonial phenomena, with ramifications extending beyond postcolonial literature. Developing this structure in relation to ...

A modern anthology for the general reader asw well as students, covering "only" the key British and Irish writers of the last century. Excluding minor and fashionable authors, the works of less than 40 major writers are presented in depth and with a linking commentaries. ...

"The Duke of Palermo" is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction.<BR> ...

Bearing witness to a landscape of profound emotional experience and connection, this skillfully crafted second collection from Irish poet Catherine Phil MacCarthy is also a vibrant yet unapologetic celebration of life and all its unexpected, unpredictable variousness. Elusive feelings are skillfully captured in snapshot-fresh poems: a daughter hears the news of her father's death, the body of a young woman murdered is brought home by her sister, ...