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John Dryden (1631-1700) was the dominant literary figure of his age. Drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume "The Poems of John Dryden", this work includes a selection of his most important work.

Presents the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) resulting from a reappraisal of his work, from composition through to reception. This work embodies his own practice in repsect of capitalisation, italics and spelling. It includes the poetry that appeared from 1730 up until Pope's death in 1744, including the great "Essay on Man".

Presenting in edited texts, with a editorial commentary, the complete non-dramatic poetry of Dryden's later years, this fifth and final volume in the series contains the text of his final collection, fables, including its prose dedication and preface, together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s, and some posthumously published items.

Drawn from the author's own "The Poems of Tennyson", this book includes in full all four of Tennyson's long poems - "The Princess", "In Memoriam", "Maud", and "Idylls of the King" - as well as other great poems including "Mariana", "The Lady of Shalott", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses" and "Tithonus". It is of interest to scholars and students.

Provides careful annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment, and introductory material setting the poem - The Faerie Queene - in its historical and literary context. This book also includes additional original material, which includes a chronology, a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses, and dedicatory sonnets.

William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visionary. This work includes the texts of the early prose tracts, "All Religions are One" and "There is No Natural Religion". It contains a representation of Blake's most significant paintings and designs.

Contains Milton's English poems, with the exception of "Paradise Lost", together with translations and texts of his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. This work presents extensive notes and headnotes to show Milton's allusions and synthesize the judgements and disagreements of a bewildering array of modern critics.

Milton's "Paradise Lost" is one of the great works of literature. This work provides contextual information and notes on composition and context combined with an explication of the multitude allusions Milton called to the poem's aid. It also summarises the vast body of critical attention it has attracted.

An anthology of the poems of Shelley arranged in chronological order of their composition. Each has a note of its general significance, footnotes elucidating any difficult points and a discussion of its meaning and occasion. Recent scholarship and criticism are also included.

The first part of a three-volume edition of Dryden's poems. This work aims to present a complete rethinking of the text, canon and dating of Dryden's poetry, together with a substantial body of annotation which draws on previous editions, on subsequent scholarship and on new research.

Prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions of Dryden's work, volume three of "The Poems of John Dryden" covers the poems written by the writer between 1686 and 1696. The poet's language is glossed in unprecedented detail.