The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes

作者：  Cambridge Companions to Literature　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012-1-1

简介：　　Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the majortwentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each newtitle produced something of a shock to British literary culture.Only now is the breadth of his literary range and culturalinfluence being recognised. As well as his poetry and stories,writing for children, translations and prose essays and reviews, inrecent years Hughes's own letters have received great criticalattention. This Companion consolidates Hughes's life, writings andreputation. International experts from a variety of literary fieldshere confront the key questions posed by Hughes's work. Newarchival evidence is provided for fresh readings of his oeuvre withclose attention to language, forms and the function of myth.Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is avaluable and insightful companion for those studying and readingHughes in the context of his role in the development of modernpoetry.

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

作者：  Cambridge Companions to Literature　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2012-1-1

简介：　　Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporaryliterature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulftranslation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Lightand District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists fordecades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has cometo be considered one of the most important English language poetsin the world. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of hiscareer thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England andaround the world. Its distinguished contributors offer detailedreadings of all his major publications, in poetry, prose andtranslation. The essays further explore the central themes of hispoetry, his relations with other writers, and his prose writing.Designed for students, this volume will also have much to interestand inform the general reader and admirer of Heaney's unique poeticvoice.