Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry

“Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry” combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. • Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres • Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution • Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare • Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare's major poems-Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint-in the context of his dramatic career • Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. • Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetry • Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of man • Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to reading • Discusses the poets' own reading and experience of being read, as well as analysis of the sounds of key poems and the look of the poem on the page • Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of their literary, historical, political and personal contexts • Includes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare -as well as a host of less familiar writers, including women

A guide to conducting systematic reviews of test accuracy. In “Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy”, a team of distinguished researchers deliver the official guide to preparing and maintaining systematic reviews of test accuracy in healthcare. This first edition of the Handbook contains guidance on understanding test accuracy measures, search strategies and study selection, understanding meta-analysis and risk of bias and applicability assessments, presentation of findings, and drawing conclusions. Readers will also find: • An introduction to test evaluation, including the purposes of medical testing, test accuracy and the impact of tests on patient outcomes • Comprehensive explorations of the design of test accuracy studies, including discussions of reference standards and comparative test accuracy studies • Considerations of the methods and presentation of systematic reviews of test accuracy • Elaboration of study selection, data collection, and undertaking risk of bias and applicability assessments Perfect for medical practitioners and clinicians, “Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy” will also benefit professionals in epidemiology and students in related fields.

A lively exploration of Shakespeare's poems and how they speak to readers. “Reading Shakespeare's Poetry” presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poems, providing insights into the individual poems, their themes and composition, and their relation to the cultural context of Shakespeare's world. Dympna Callaghan considers what makes Shakespeare's language poetic and shows how his poetry is comprised not only of lyrical intensity but also of the language of everyday life. Presented chronologically, lucidly-written chapters examine Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint. Special attention is paid to the distinctive ways in which lineation, rhyme, verse forms, and meter serve to delineate or erase the boundaries of Shakespeare's poetry. Throughout the book, the author explains how Shakespeare's language is influenced by predecessors such as Ovid and Petrarch while highlighting how ideas about the social and cultural function of poetry permeate Shakespeare's works. • Offers an eminently readable yet scholarly exploration of the literary importance of Shakespeare's poems • Explains the technical features of Shakespeare's poetic language • Addresses the significance of the material form in which Shakespeare's poems appear • Includes a discussion of songs, poems, and sonnets embedded in Shakespeare's dramatic verse “Reading Shakespeare's Poetry” is both a fresh and indispensable guide to the poems and a significant critical intervention. This is a must-have book for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

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Concise enough to be assimilated in a single session, this short volume maps the wonders of Milton's poetic landscape. The book offers an exploration of some of the main narrative and poetic elements of the epic poem—qualities which have compelled and fascinated readers for more than three centuries. The author, a celebrated authority on English poetry of the period, engages with (and attempts to counter) some of the critical arguments that impede readers' enjoyment of the poem. This volume emphasizes the aesthetic experience of reading Paradise Lost and brings out the pleasure to be derived from one of the great literary achievements of humanity.