Books in the Oxford English Texts series

This volume, along with Volume IV, completes the edition of the long English Wycliffite sermon cycle with an extensive commentary on the text along with thorough indices of sermons and biblical references, indispensable to the study of Volumes I to III.

This final volume of of Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", contains commentary on the Third Partition, in which Burton considers two especial forms of the disease, Love and Religious Melancholy. Burton had fewer precedents than in previous sections, but drew largely on his classical knowledge.

A scholarly edition of works by Matthew Prior. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of the poems of Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The fourth volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the first of three volumes of Commentary. In his study Burton cites many other writers and this edition identifies these and verifies his quotations, with explanatory notes and translations of passages in Latin and an attempt to locate all Burton's sources.

The Complete Poetical Works Volume 2

A collection of Byron's miscellaneous prose writings, including his speeches in the House of Lords, short stories, reviews, critical articles and Armenian translations, as well as such shorter pieces as memoranda, notes, reminiscences and marginalia.

Features poetry that reveals the shaping processes of the author's poetic thought. This work also contains commentary that traces the range of echoes and allusions - Biblical, Classical, and contemporary, as well as providing information on persons, places, and historical context, the dating of poems, and his linguistic usage.

Talks about the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg. Drawing on an analysis of manuscript sources, this book offers an insight into the process of his poetic thought. It examines textual matters, dating and ordering, and the way in which, especially while working in isolation as a private soldier, he was able to share critical ideas on poems with his peers.

This volume completes the "Oxford English Texts" series on Byron, covering the poetry of the last two years of his life, 1823 and 1824.

The Natural History Prose Writings, 1793-1864

The Complete Poetical Works Volume 3

A scholarly edition of poems by James Thompson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Poems

To be completed in six volumes, this work represents the first comprehensive re-editing of Byron's poetry in over 75 years. The editor's commentaries about the texts and contexts of Byron's works reflect the access to a vast amount of original documents and manuscripts.

A scholarly edition of works by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of Poetical Works of John Milton: Paradise Lost by Helen Darbishire. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Part of a collection of volumes containing all of Hardy's poetic works, this book contains, in addition to the major poem known as "The Dynasts", Hardy's versions of two folk-pieces: the "Mummers' Play of Saint George" and the operetta "O'Jan, O'Jan, O'Jan" (here published for the first time).

Presented in two volumes are the works of Elizabethan writer and patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, who is credited with having introduced continental literary genres, and expanded opportunities for later women writers. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of The Psalms.

This is a literary critical edition of Christopher Smart's translation of Phaedrus's fables. Many of the best known Aesopian fables are in fact the work of the Roman poet Phaedrus, a freed slave. Smart's version aims to capture the spirit and humour of the Latin originals.

A scholarly edition of a play by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of poems by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition The Life and Death of Mr. Badman: Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue Between Mr Wiseman and Mr Attentive by James F. Forrest and Roger Sharrock. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), was a leading member of the group of `court wits' surrounding Charles II. In this edition, Harold Love, one of the leading scholars of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of the manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes.

Volumes 4 and 5 of this complete collection of Hardy's poetry contain all of his dramatic writing in verse. Explanatory notes describe each work's composition and publication, and provide supporting material from Hardy's letters and notebooks. Production and performance details are also included.

Emily Bronte's achievement as a poet has been in part eclipsed by that of her masterpiece, "Wuthering Heights", yet the poems reveal a powerful and highly individual imagination and poetic voice. This edition preserves Bronte's original (sometimes unorthodox) presentation, and records the stages of her revisions.