A HISTORY of English literature 1 in several large volumes, published under the auspices, and bearing the name, of Cambridge University, and edited in chief by the master of one of its oldest colleges ...
Tables of contents for recent issues of The Review of English Studies are available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/revesj/contents/. Authorized users may be able to access ...
The honors project of June Lei ’18 is one of four projects we’re highlighting to show the breadth and depth of undergraduate work this year. Titles are hard, as any student writing an ambitious honors ...
Thomas Percy’s ballad collection, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, marks a point of intersection between balladry and Shakespeareana, which both went through a transitional phase from vocal ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Englishness is in crisis, again. The self-conscious agonising over our national “character” — and how far we ...
Atlantic Books has pre-empted "the book on poetry you never knew you needed" by The Etymologicon (Icon Books) author Mark Forsyth. Group non-fiction publisher Ed Faulkner bought UK and Commonwealth ...
A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...