WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets & Verse William Shakespeare: The Sonnets William Shakespeare: Complete Poems Shakespeare: Love, Poetry and Magic in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays Feminism and Shakespeare
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LIST OF SUBJECTSThe Crescent Moon Book of Elizabethan Love Poetry The Crescent Moon Book of Love Poetry The Crescent Moon Book of Nature Poetry The Crescent Moon Book of Mystical Poetry in English Poetic Forms: A Handbook of Stanza-forms from the History of Poetry Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poems Edmund Spenser: Poems Dante: Selections From the Vita Nuova Dante Studies: Dante in Love: The Vita Nuova Petrarch, Dante and the Troubadours: The Religion of Love and Poetry
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The very best of the Sonnets, and
the richest moments from the plays (King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest,
Romeo and Juliet, etc). Familiar anthology pieces are counterbalanced
with lesser known passages from the plays.
British Poets Series Bibliography,
notes 64pp ISBN 1-898283-10-9 £5.99
/ $9.50
To read some poetry, click here
The Sonnets represent the highpoint
of love poetry in English: they continue to astonish and delight with the
abundance of their word play and the intensity of the erotic feelings they
depict. This book prints all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets and provides
a commentary on this narrative of rivalry in love.
British Poets Series Bibliography,
notes 180pp ISBN 1861710437 £10.00 / $20.00
This book includes all of Shakespeare's
poetry, including the Sonnets, Venus and Adonies, The Rape of Lucrece
and
The Passionate Pilgrim.
British Poets Series Bibliography, notes 360pp ISBN 1861711948 £10.00 / $20.00
A refreshing look at the cultural phenomenon that is 'Shakespeare', focussing on the discourses of sexuality, theatre, culture, tragedy, magic, politics and feminism. The Sonnets create much controversy, but Barnacle studies them as poetry first, and uses the Sonnets as a key to all of Shakespeare's texts. The book concludes with an in-depth survey of feminist literary criticism, and how it applies to the central icon of Western literature.
B.D. Barnacle taught English in Paris until
1980. He now teaches in Oxford. His books include John Donne (1978),
The
Victorian Novel: Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy (1984), Shakespeare
(Crescent Moon, 1992) and Rilke (Crescent Moon, 1993).
Bibliography, notes 145pp ISBN
1-871846-81-1 £14.99 / $23.50
A survey of contemporary feminism, and
its relation to literature's 'god'. The author employs up-to-date research
in gay, lesbian and feminist approaches to the Renaissance world and literary
texts.
With extended notes 30pp ISBN 1-898283-01-X
£3.99 / $6.00
Marlowe, Spenser, Drayton, Sidney, Campion,
Raleigh, Daniel, Shakespeare and others
British Poets Series Bibliography,
notes 84pp ISBN 1-898283-37-0
£7.99 / $12.50 NEW
The great love poets collected here include
Jonson, Skelton, Marlowe, Campion, Sidney, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, Donne,
Spenser, Wyatt, Anne Bradsheet, Emily Brontë, Hardy, Christina Rossetti,
Herrick, John Clare, Emily Dickinson and Queen Elizabeth I.
Bibliography, notes 112pp ISBN
1-871846-97-8 £7.99
/ $12.50
Fair is my Love, and cruel as sheís fair
Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;
Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair;
And her disdains are gall, her favours honey.
A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour,
Whose feet to tread green paths of youth and love,
The wonder of all eyes that look upon her,
Sacred on earth, designed a saint above!
Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes,
Live reconciled friends within her brow;
And had the Pity to conjoin with those,
Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?
For had she not been fair, and thus unkind,
My Muse had slept, and none had known my mind.(Samuel Daniel, from Sonnets to Delia)
For more love poetry, click here
An anthology of great nature poems, including the Elizabethan pastorals of Spenser, Shakespeare, Raleigh and Drayton, and classics of nature mysticism by Chaucer, Langland, Thomson, Blake and Wordsworth, among others. Famous anthology pieces nestle amongst lesser known poems, including some neglected women poets, and American poets such as Lowell and Dickinson.
Margaret Elvy is assistant professor, Dept
of English, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She has written
books on George Eliot, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. She has three
books on Thomas Hardy from Crescent Moon (Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure,
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Sexing Hardy: Thomas
Hardy and Feminism).
Bibliography, notes 96pp ISBN
1-86171-054-2 £7.99
/ $12.50
Now welcome, somer, with thy sunne softe,
That hast thes wintres wedres overshake
And driven away the longe nightes blake!Saint Valentin, that art ful hy o-lofte,
Thus singen amale fowles for thy sake:
ënow welcome, somer, with thy sunne softe,
that hast thes wintres wedres overshake!í(Geoffrey Chaucer)
For more nature poetry, click here
Mystical poets featured here include Blake,
Whitman, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Crashaw, Shelley, Emerson, Herbert,
Longfellow, Hopkins, Traherne, Shakespeare, Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Lawrence
and anonymous mediæval works, such as The Cloud of Unknowing.
British Poets Series Bibliography, notes
96pp ISBN 1-86171-055-0
£7.99 / $12.50
Behind me- dips Eternity -
Before Me - Immortality -
Myself - the Term between -
Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,
Dissolving into Dawn away,
Before the West begin -(Emily Dickinson, from 'Behind Me - dips Eternity')
A guide to traditional forms of verse, such as the sonnet, ode, elegy and quatrain, as well as some lesser known poetic forms used in mediæval and Renaissance Europe, as found in Petrarch, Scève, Tasso, Dante and the troubadours (eg the canso and dizain).
Jeremy Robinson's books include Glorification:
Religious Abstraction in Renaissance and 20th Century Art (1990),
Rimbaud (1992), Lawrence Durrell (1995) and Detonation Britain:
Nuclear War in the UK (1997). He edits two magazines, Passion
and Pagan America (a journal of American poetry).
Bibliography 30pp ISBN 1-871846-75-7
£3.99 / $6.00
This is a collection of Wyatt's Petrarchan
sonnets, songs, ballads, epigrams and rondeaux. The poems, in meticulously
wrought stanzas, are mainly about love: love lost, won, and desired. Wyatt
was the first of the great English Renaissance love poets. Wyatt's poetry
is too often neglected, beside towering talents such as Spenser, Shakespeare
and Marlowe. Poems attributed to Wyatt are also here.
British Poets Series Bibliography, notes
ISBN 1-898283-18-4 68pp £5.99 / $9.50
For
more love poetry by Wyatt, click here
Opulent Elizabethan verse, including many
of Spenser's love poems (the Amoretti), the celebratory Epithalamion,
extracts from Astrophel and The Shepheardes Calendar, and
of course, The Faerie Queene.
British Poets Series Bibliography, notes
ISBN 1-898283-19-2 68pp £5.99 / $9.50
Dante Alighieri 's early work, the Vita Nuova or 'New Life' was one of the most influential books in the history of love poetry. Finn-Kelcey discusses the links between Dante and his contemporaries, the stilnovisti; Dante and the troubadours; Dante and the courtly love tradition; the discourses of self, identity, autobiography, eroticism and gender in the Vita Nuova; and Dante's sexual politics
Joanna Finn-Kelcey has taught European
languages at the University of Cambridge and Ohio State University. Her
books include Mediaeval Representations (1991) and Dante Studies:
Dante in Love, on the Vita Nuova (forthcoming).
European Writers Series Bibliography,
notes 160ppp ISBN 1-86171-010-0
£14.99 / $23.500 forthcoming
edited and introduced by Joanna Finn-Kelcey
Poems and prose from Dante Alighieri's New Life, his 'Book of Memory', recording his religious devotion to his believed Beatrice, translated by Thomas Okey, with the original Italian text on the facing page. Okey's tender, lyrical versions of Dante's great book of romantic love date from the early years of the 20th century. Finn-Kelcey's introduction explores the intricate emotional psychology of the Dante-poet, and his unsurpassed talent for making poetry out of love, loss and memory.
Joanna Finn-Kelcey has taught European
languages at the University of Cambridge and Ohio State University. Her
books include Mediaeval Representations (1991) and Dante Studies:
Dante in Love, on the Vita Nuova (forthcoming).
European Writers Series Bibliography
and notes 88pp ISBN 1-86171-014-3
£6.99 / $11.00 NEW
These two Renaissance writers tower over European culture. Here the love poetry of Francesco Petrarch (his Canzoniere) and Dante Alighieri (the Vita Nuova and Divine Comedy) is analyzed. Hughes places Dante and Petrarch in the courtly love tradition of the troubadours, Minnesangers, minstrels and stilnovisti, the creators of the great flowering of erotic poetry in the late Middle Ages.
Cassidy Hughes is a writer and photographer.
His previous books include Images of India (1982), Petrarch,
Dante and the Troubadours (1992) and Sex in Art (1993). His
photographs have been exhibited in London, Rome, Hong Kong and New York
(among others). He lives near St Just in West Penwith, Cornwall.
European Writers Series Bibliography and
notes 122pp ISBN 1-871846-71-4
£14.99 / $23.50
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets & Verse William Shakespeare: The Sonnets Shakespeare: Love, Poetry and Magic in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays Feminism and Shakespeare
BOOKS OF RELATED INTEREST
The Crescent Moon Book of Elizabethan Love Poetry The Crescent Moon Book of Love Poetry The Crescent Moon Book of Nature Poetry The Crescent Moon Book of Mystical Poetry in English Poetic Forms: A Handbook of Stanza-forms from the History of Poetry Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poems Edmund Spenser: Poems Dante: Selections From the Vita Nuova Dante Studies: Dante in Love: The Vita Nuova Petrarch, Dante and the Troubadours: The Religion of Love and Poetry
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