The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the impo

This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.

More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, bes

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

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Eu