One of the most famous verses in modern English poetry is this one from Philip Larkin’s profane poem, “This Be The Verse”: Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf.

‘Modern Poetry: Poems’ by Diane Seuss. (Graywolf Press) “The danger/ of memory is going/ to it for respite,” writes Diana Seuss in “Weeds,” the best poem in her first collection following the Pulitzer ...

The Year's Work in English ... modern philosophical views of skepticism: those of Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, and Hans Blumenberg, among others. The book thus contributes to ...

In its inner contradictoriness, its sense of a close interdependence between literature and society ... an undergraduate to have shared both his temperamental affinity for the English Augustans and ...

This 2003 book is a full-scale history of early modern English literature, offering perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing ...

The modern and contemporary researchers have in common a tough ... and organize networks and symposia to bring researchers together from around the world. The MA English Literature offers students the ...

how medieval literature anticipates and shapes modern and early modern literature. This course introduces students to English poetry written in the 16th and 17th centuries. Exploration of this ...