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Criticism on Poetry & Poets

The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry

By Eric Griffiths (Fellow in English, Trinity College, Cambridge; Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge University)

Dante: A Very Short Introduction

By Peter Hainsworth (Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford), David Robey (Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford)

William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

By Stanley Wells (Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500

By Daniel Sawyer (Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature, Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature, Merton College, University of Oxford, UK)

Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City

By Prof Kenneth M. Price (Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 21st-Century Oxford Authors

By Josie Billington (Deputy Director, Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems, Deputy Director, University of Liverpool), Philip Davis (Director, Centre for...

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith

By Emma Mason (Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

The Last Poets of Imperial Rome

By Harold Isbell

Dante's New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature

By Martin Eisner (Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian, Chair of Romance Studies and Professor of Italian, Duke University)

Burns Encyclopaedia

By Maurice Lindsay

Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in The Canterbury Tales

By Samantha Katz Seal (Associate Professor of English and the Pamela Shulman Professor of European and Holocaust Studies, Associate Professor of English and the Pamela Shulman Professor of European and Holocaust Studies, University of New Hampshire)

Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000

By Nicolas Barker

Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

By Rita Copeland (Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, and Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of Humanities, University of Pennsylvania)