Martin Scofield Boeken

Focusing on Eliot's poetry, this book serves as a detailed introduction for first-time readers and students. It explores his poems, poetic drama, and relevant prose criticism, situating them within the broader scope of his literary development, personal life, and philosophical and religious themes. The comprehensive analysis encourages a deeper understanding of Eliot's work and its significance in literary and intellectual contexts.

This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe, via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor.

Originally published 200 years ago, Lyrical Ballads is published here as it was compiled by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Accepted as one of the most influential books of English poetry, it includes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.