The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts.
V. 1. Old English to 1800.--v. 2. 1800 to the present.
With this volume as with the others, material continues to be added on an ongoing basis to the website component of the anthology.
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh° lively and eager art thou! ... 8 full of shapes ... envisioned forms (of love) that it alone is supremely creative high fantastical I.e., imagination is so full of (compared with the other mental ...
Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660–1837 – volume IV. Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature 1837–2000. ISBN 978-0-470-65604-4 (hardback) 1. English literature–History and criticism. 2. Great Britain–Intellectual life.
In this wide-ranging collection, the impact of distribution and the institutions and practices of reading are explored to open up new perspectives on the British book trade and the production, circulation and consumption of literature in ...
The fevered, distraught voice of Herbert Morrison, who had been calmly reporting the docking for WLS radio, Chicago, burst out, “Oh, the humanity!” The phrase has become a classic and, like many classics, it has been degraded as an ...
With this volume readers will now be able to enjoy a much broader selection of Old English poetry in translations by Liuzza.
Richard hears the voice, thanks God for his blessing, and has them men beheaded “hastily,” casting their bodies into a ... Notably, as Friedman points out, other writers were more reluctant to exonerate Richard, and one chronicler even ...
Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period, such as Dryden, Pope and Swift, while also exploring the works of important writers ...