English Literature: A Very Short Introduction discusses why literature matters, how narrative works, and what is distinctly English about English literature. Jo

Offers an entirely new way of interpreting and examining Anglo-Saxon texts, via theories derived from cognitive studies. A major, thoughtful study, applying new

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

This book considers the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-1970s,focusing on the work o