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This impressive and pioneering anthology presents extracts in the original Middle English of the various kinds of medieval texts in which women were involved. It explores their place in medieval literary culture and invites readers to judge whether there is such a thing as `women's writing' in the Middle Ages.

This title is re-issued as part of the Longman Annotated Texts series. The series was conceived with the student in mind and is intended to provide accessible and authoritative editions of key texts in English and American Literature. The annotation is designed to bring out each text's full range of reference and meaning.

This text presents all four of Chaucer's dream poems, together with a critical guide to dream poetry and introductions to the individual poems. It also includes a guide to the poetic themes present in Chaucer's other works, such as the "Canterbury Tales."

This study of William Cowper spans his early life and writings to his last years. It includes chapters on his moral satires and light verse as well as on "The Task" and the Homer translations. It also contains a selection of his poetic work.

A selection of Clough's poems which includes "Ambarvalia", "Adam and Eve", "Amours de Voyage", and "Dipsychus and The Spirit". The collection also includes some shorter poems. All the poems are accompanied by notes.

In "Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems" Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardy's poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poet's career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the "Collected Poems" of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically. Head notes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardy's manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy's notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading.Tim Armstrong's critical Introduction discusses Hardy's career, his poetics, his use of memory and allusion and examines his position in the context of Victorian debates on aesthetics and belief. The generous selection of poems includes many lesser-known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary, and the important elegiac sequence 'Poems of 1912-13' is included in its entirety. Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of "Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory" (2000).

This book provides a comprehensive anthology of Victorian Poetry written by women poets. It begins with an engaging introduction covering areas such as the subject-matter, sexual politics, the contemporary reception of the poems and modern feminist theories of the poetry.