This book argues that it was through his dialogue with the pastoral and elegiac traditions in Lycidas that Milton first came face to face with the frustrations and pressures which were to change the future course of his life.

The Road from Horton: Looking Backwards in "Lycidas" (Els Monograph)

Literature & Fiction

Evans, J. Martin

History & Criticism

English Literary Studies

<p>The historical setting of this diary offers us a glimpse of England at war through the eyes of a person who, though affected by it, did not cultivate political consciousness. Hunt emerges from her diary as a woman caught between unreconcilable forces: her desire for respectability and her pursuit of amorous sensation; her shrewd insight into her and Ford's character and her self-destructiveness in protracting a relationship she knows is doomed to failure; her self-dramatizing instinct, always ready to step back and watch herself in action, and her spontaneity; her pride and her abjectness; her wit and her sadness.</p>

The Return of the Good Soldier: Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt's 1917 Diary (Els Monographs)

Secor,Marie

Secor, Robert

"Even many of her admirers are ready to admit that though she is a great novelist, it is not to Jane Austen that we should go if we want to be deeply moved: she is great for other reasons. I am ready to admit numbers of reasons for which she is a great novelist; but I find no need to apologize for her in the area of her main concern. My contention is that her subject was love, and she knew her subject." (from the Foreword)

Jane Austen on Love (Els Monograph Series No. 13)

McMaster, Juliet

British & Irish

A study of C.S. Lewis's philosophical differences with his friend Owen Barfield.

C. S. Lewis's "Great War" with Owen Barfield

Adey, Lionel

Browning's Sordello has often been regarded as teh ultimate difficult poem, at least until its twentieth-century successors. It is also usually seen as an anomalous freak of literary history. Browning's early masterwork can be understood best, however, as a mature extension of the poetics of its time, as well as a late-Romantic attempt to write an epical work which must be read both willfully and imaginatively.

Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty (Els Monograph)

Latané Jr., David E.

This book argues that Gertrude Stein shifted the thrust of the genre of autobiography away from involvement in the past and the creation of the self as an artifact and towards a consciousness, on the part of both writer and reader, of knowing and writing as ongoing process.

Gertrude Stein: Autobiography and the Problem of Narration (ELS monograph series)

S.C. Neuman

Blake's Thel and Oothoon (E L S MONOGRAPH SERIES)

Wilkie, Brian

Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange (E L S MONOGRAPH SERIES)

Yeager, R.F.

Spenser's Poetics of Prophecy in The Faerie Queen V (E L S MONOGRAPH SERIES)

Borris, Kenneth

Coleridge: Historian of Ideas (E L S MONOGRAPH SERIES)

De Paolo, Charles

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