Thomas Shaw, Shantooe Jest

Simon Young, ‘Shantooe Jest: A Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Fairy Saga’, Supernatural Studies 3 (2016), 9-22. 'Shantooe Jest' a poem by obscure Saddleworth poet Thomas Shaw has a great deal of hidden fairy- and boggart-lore. Some of the problems with Shaw's work are explored.

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1983

Succinctly called "a book of tales of various kinds, romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written at any time over the past six hundred years" by the compilers, Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie, this universally-appealing collection of 59 poems presents a comprehensive literary tradition of narrative verse from Chaucer to Auden. The anthology includes Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott," Poe's "The Raven," and Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," along with such twentieth-century narrative classics as G.K. Chesterton's "Lepanto," Robert Frost's "The Code," Marriott Edgar's "The Lion and Albert," and W.H. Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby." Abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as Spenser's The Faerie Queen and Milton's Paradise Lost add to the ri...

John Dyer, The Fleece, 2019

This is a full scholarly edition of John Dyer's influential and historically important georgic poem, The Fleece (1757). The edition offers a rich annotation, especially on Dyer's topographical, historical, agricultural and industrial themes, drawing on, among other things, Dyer's surviving notebooks and manuscripts. The editors are John Goodridge (Emeritus Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University) and Juan Christian Pellicer (Professor of English, University of Oslo). Title corrected <Poems> to <Poem> November 2022

2016

A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland’s poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, and explores the connections, influences and interrelations between English, Gaelic, Latin, Old Norse and Scots verse.

Lived fairy experiences in nineteenth-century Ireland and their relation to Irish folklore.

2024

Grassi, S., Hewitt, S., & Bergantino, A. (2024). Of Hollies and Other Little Wonders: In Conversation with Seán Hewitt // Five Poems by Seán Hewitt. Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, 14, 193–208. https://doi.org/10.36253/SIJIS-2239-3978-15535

2016

, and in particular the colleagues of the department of Scottish Literature, for generously hosting me as an Honorary Research Fellow in 2010-11. It was there, in one of the friendliest and most stimulating professional environments in my life so far, that the project of the present volume took shape. I am especially grateful to the series editors, Ian Brown and Thomas Owen Clancy, for their support throughout the stages of preparing the book, and to the ASLS Director, Duncan Jones, for overseeing its production. Finally, a special thanks goes to my mother, who taught me love of words and beauty. To her memory, this volume is dedicated. xi A Note on the Text Quotations from poems and the titles of poems written in languages other than English and Scots are provided in the original language in regular type, followed by translation in italics. Gaelic poets are indicated by their Gaelic name, followed by its English version in parenthesis. An exception has been made for those poets who are internationally known by their English name: in these cases, it is the Gaelic name that follows parenthetically. The collections of poems or anthologies whose full bibliographical details can be traced freely on the Internet are indicated in the text only by title and publication date. Fuller details are provided in endnotes for old and rare primary sources. Secondary sources are regularly referenced in endnotes.

Ka Mate Ka Ora, 2019

Mary Stanley’s poetry is not as well known as it should be, perhaps because there is comparatively little of it. This charge is often laid at the feet of twentieth-century gender norms which designated a woman’s domestic life as her first duty. In Stanley’s case, it can further be attributed to the chronic rheumatoid arthritis with which she was diagnosed following her first pregnancy, and which affected her joints and hands. But regardless of Stanley’s relatively small production compared to a well known writer such as Robin Hyde, her poetry shows intelligence and emotion that speaks across the decades. While the woman herself is worthy of commemoration, her poetry is worthy of continued engagement.