Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.
Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts.
In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds.
Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.
Resulta asombroso el arraigo de la figura de Ofelia en la literatura y las artes visuales de Espana, desde su aparicion en las traducciones de Hamlet del siglo XVIII, pasando por poetas canonicos como Espronceda y Lorca, hasta las figuraciones de finales del milenio.
A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature.
A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature.
How the legacy of the Civil Waras presented by writers, poets, and artists of the timehas shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America's cataclysmic sundering.
How the legacy of the Civil Waras presented by writers, poets, and artists of the timehas shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America's cataclysmic sundering.
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeusand its major themes, creation and beautythrough the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato's Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers.
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeusand its major themes, creation and beautythrough the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato's Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers.
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ';the Wandering Jew'The story behind the mythical figure of ';the Wandering Jew' is one of the most fascinating tales in European history.
Best Books of 2024: Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes.
Best Books of 2024: Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes.
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ';the Wandering Jew'The story behind the mythical figure of ';the Wandering Jew' is one of the most fascinating tales in European history.
Stern und Kosmos als Zeitsignatur der Moderne: Die Suche nach gesellschaftlicher Orientierung, umfassender Erkenntnis und asthetischer Form fuhrt um 1900 an den Sternenhimmel.
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend.
Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life,passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food.
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control.
James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932; and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began.
En Hipervinculos, Danilo Albero persiste en el buen habito de cincelar apuntes, articulos, vinetas o como se los quiera llamar, en donde los viajes a sitios insospechados se mezclan con discusiones acerca del arte y la literatura, con apuntes sobre discos de vinilo, de peliculas en blanco y negro y en tecnicolor, con reflexiones en torno a libros clasicos y a textos desconocidos, con especulaciones referidas a la vida, a la muerte y a sus derivados.
