English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama
10 best books like English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama (C.S. Lewis): The Elizabethan World Picture, A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare, The Age of Shakespeare, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso, On Poetry And Poets, Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning, Persecution and the Art of Writing
| Author | Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard |
| ISBN | 0394701623 |
This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered...
| Author | René Girard |
| ISBN | 0195053397 |
In this groundbreaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Rene Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis."...
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| ISBN | 0679642447 |
In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0300042086 |
One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William Shakespeare through a study of ten of Shakespeare’s most popular plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, King Lear,...
Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 0802815782 |
"Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars" are two collections of poems written by Charles Williams and based on the Arthurian legend. They are written from the perspective of Taliessin, the court poet of Camelot, and chronicle the history of the fabled kingdom. Being written...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0571089836 |
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
| Author | R.S. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0753811057 |
Is there a good way to write poetry? In the late Sixties, like many thousands of other unwashed urchins, I encountered RS Thomas at school in a slap-in-the-face poem that has puzzled me ever since.
You remember Davies? He died you know
With his face to the wall, as the manner is
Of the poor...
| Author | Cleanth Brooks |
| ISBN | 0156957051 |
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective...
Persecution and the Art of Writing
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226777111 |
It's easy to understand the influence of Hayek or Milton Friedman, but Leo Strauss is an entirely more perplexing case. What is it about this Spinoza expert and painstaking scholar of medieval philosophy that makes him an intellectual godfather to the modern GOP?
Let's try asking Peter Thiel...
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
| Author | David Cressy |
| ISBN | 0198207883 |
From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the Protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate...
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
| Author | Peter J. Leithart |
| ISBN | 1885767234 |
Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks...
| Author | George M. Marsden |
| ISBN | 0691153736 |
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book.
George Marsden...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0075536528 |
This is a great introduction to Aristotle, suitable for anyone who wants a taste of his most famous works without investing a great amount of time or money in any single one of them.
I've only read most, though not all, of the selections in this book, not always from this edition.
What...
| Author | Michael Ward |
| ISBN | 0195313879 |
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie...
C. S. Lewis and his Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society
| Author | Roger White |
| ISBN | 0190214341 |
For thirty years, the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society has met weekly in the medieval colleges of Oxford University. During that time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who were associated with the Inklings--the Oxford literary circle led by C.S. Lewis--as well as authors and thinkers...
Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition
| Author | Donald T. Williams |
| ISBN | 0805440186 |
An odd book. Williams seems to be stuck in the middle of attempting to describe the works of Chesterton, Lewis and Tolkien while at the same time writing about the human condition as seen from the Christian perspective. This gets him lost, at times, writing very simple descriptions of the plots and in...
| Author | Gene Edward Veith Jr. |
| ISBN | 0891075828 |
Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good–to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read–from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how...
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0156232057 |
Reading this after so long, and with more recent biographies of varying qualities in between, I was unclear what to expect when I was about to begin. Would it be like the joy of meeting a good friend after many years, or would it be a sore disappointment in the light of the more recent research I had read? I...
| Author | Christopher Hill |
| ISBN | 0415267390 |
There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution....
