Edited by Carl Woodring (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and James Shapiro A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, … Continued
By Antony H. Harrison (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Applying the methodologies of the new historicism, reception theory, and feminist criticism, Harrison provides striking interpretations of Christina Rossetti's poetry. He examines her work in relation to the traditions of medieval and Renaissance love poetry, Romanticism, Tractarianism, and Aestheticism; establishes her place among the pre-Raphaelites; relates her writing … Continued
Edited by Carl Woodring (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and James Shapiro The Columbia Anthology pays tribute to the renowned works that any include–Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Eliot, Auden. But the book also resurrects the voices of excellent poets, particularly women–such as Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Ingram, and Christina Rossetti. Unencumbered by extensive notes that divert … Continued
By Eric G. Wilson (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) This lively intellectual biography of the second half of Coleridge's life argues that the poet, in his mature work, reveals a brilliant though troubled genius for conveying the ambiguities of psychological limbo. Asserting that the later poetry is the key element of Coleridge's career, Eric G. Wilson proposes … Continued
Edited by Antony H. Harrison (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets–not just one of the major women poets—of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti’s work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions … Continued
Edited by Hermione de Almeida (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) Hermione de Almeida’s edition of Critical Essays on John Keats in the series Critical Essays on British Literature consists of seventeen essays dating from 1965, with seven published during the last decade and seven more original studies written specifically for this volume. Together they represent a cross-section … Continued
By David Simpson (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of … Continued
By Mario Klarer (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 2000–01) This volume examines instances of ecphrasis (literary descriptions of pictures) in the works of English Renaissance authors against the background of Elizabethan theory formation on the problem of representation. References to (usually fictional) works of art in the works of Sidney, Spenser, Lyly and Shakespeare serve as a … Continued
By Robert Bernard Martin (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Probably no English poet of the 19th century is today so widely read or greatly loved as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yet in his lifetime he was almost entirely unpublished, and only a handful of his close friends knew that he wrote poetry at all.
By Lewis Leary (NHC Fellow, 1978–79)