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    Milton: Paradise Lost: Paradise Lost

    Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature. This work provides contextual information and notes on composition and context combined with an explication of the multitude allusions…

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    Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry

    Alastair Fowler

    A study of numerology in Elizabethan poetry, with some background studies which base the subject in classical learning, the works of Dante and Petrarch, and the esoteric traditions of the…

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    Milton: Paradise Lost (re-issue)

    Alastair Fowler

    First published in 1968, Alastair Fowler’s annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise…

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    Edmund Spenser

    Alastair Fowler

    In this 1977 study, Alastair Fowler argues that Edmund Spenser's work shows 'an astonishing capacity to speak to' the twentieth century.

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    How to Write

    Alastair Fowler

    Aiming to demystify the writing process, this book takes the readers through each stage necessary to bring a piece of writing to a decent finish. It also offers many practical…

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    Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes

    Alastair Fowler

    Kinds of Literature An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes

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    Time’s Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature

    Alastair Fowler

    Explores the extraordinary prominence of astronomical imagery in Renaissance literature. Although the stars were important astrologically, this book explains the popularity of such imagery, and the impact of astronomical discoveries…

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    The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

    The seventeenth century was a period of remarkable achievement in the field of English poetry: it was the age of Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Jonson, Drayton, Herbert, Dryden, and Rochester among…

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    The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages

    Alastair Fowler (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)

    Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, exploring their place in the History of the Book for…

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    Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

    Alastair Fowler (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)

    Names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names are all explored in this erudite and fascinating book, which encompasses literature from ancient times…

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    Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

    Alastair Fowler (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)

    Names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names are all explored in this erudite and fascinating book, which encompasses literature from ancient times…

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    Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems

    Alastair Fowler (Regius Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Edinburgh)

    A selection of essays, written over Alastair Fowler’s prestigious career, combining celebrated works of literary criticism and previously unpublished pieces that reflect on developments in literary criticism over the last…

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    Spenser’s Images of Life

    C. S. Lewis

    This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and…

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    Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art

    Alastair Fowler (Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh)

    Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, drawing analogies between literature and visual art. The book is based on the history of the narrative…

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    Spenser’s Images of Life

    C S Lewis

    This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death.

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    English Verse 1830 - 1890

    Bernard Richards,Alastair Fowler,Brian Richards

    This anthology provides a collection of the most significant Victorian verse - including some minor figures notably John Clare, Emily Bronte and James Thomson. It contains introductions to individual poets…

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    English Verse 1830 - 1890

    Bernard Richards,Alastair Fowler,Brian Richards

    This anthology provides a collection of the most significant Victorian verse - including some minor figures notably John Clare, Emily Bronte and James Thomson. It contains introductions to individual poets…

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