Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
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In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women,...
The Last Love Song
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory...
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940
Samuel Beckett, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck and Dan Gunn
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The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of...
Summer in the Shadow of Byron
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Villa Diodati. 1816. In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his...
F: Hu Feng and Our Prison Years
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Hu Feng, the "counterrevolutionary" leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in...
Joseph: Portraits Through the Ages
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The complex and dramatic story of Joseph is the most sustained narrative in Genesis. Many call it a...
Reflections on Blue Water: Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands
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"This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of...
Art as the Absolute: Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
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Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its...
Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
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In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in...
Irish Writing London: Post-War to the Present: Volume 2
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The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. The Irish Writing...