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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.

The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Popes text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherlands The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes extensive suggestions for further reading.

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."

An examination of four comedies by Ben Jonson: "Volpone, or The Fox", "Epicoene, or The Silent Woman", "The Alchemist" and "Bartholomew Fair".

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.

'Chaucers Dream Poetry' is the first volume to provide texts of all Chaucer's four dream poems together with a full critical guide to the genre of dream poetry, and introductions to the individual poems. The texts have been newly edited by Helen Phillips and Nick Havely, who have previously produced major scholarly editions of two of the poems. This collection includes the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, and the Legend of Dido from the Legend of Good Women. The texts provide an indispensable guide to the poetic agenda that informs his other works, such as Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales, and they are also profound explorations of subjects central to Chaucer's thought such as love and transience, the experience of suffering (especially of women), and the role of the modern vernacular poet in relation to cultural tradition.