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In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on six poems by nineteenth century writer Alfred Lord Tennyson and includes biographical and bibliographical information.

A critical study of Tennyson's poetry by genres.

A selection of critical essays published during the last half-century on the work of Tennyson.

Examines the life and work of eighteenth-century English poet Lord Byron, featuring a biographical profile, critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas in his writing, a selection of critical essays, a chronology, and references.

An introduction to nineteenth-century British poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, discussing his writing in the context of his life and times, and looking at the scandals that led to his public disgrace.

Provides a brief biography of British poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, a selection of personal reminiscences by his contemporaries, and critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on specific Byron works.

A biography of eighteenth-century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, focusing on his larger-than-life personality, with discussion of his intelligence, affairs and marriage, his writing, and his exile.

A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel that describes Victor Frankenstein's meeting with the radical atheist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford and recruiting "resurrection men" to deliver fresh bodies to secret laboratory, where the monster is created.