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Scott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a royal myth o...

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental moralizing, and me...

Shakespearian References, the most authentic record of Shakespearian quotations in its manifold use, is the first and largest collection of quotabl...

Since its first publication in February 1897 Herford’s The Age of Wordsworth has remained and continues to remain a basic book on European Romantic...

Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration o...

It is a pleasure to place in the hands of our readers the fourth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The essays included in thi...

The book can be regarded as a contribution to knowledge; ... it results from a deep knowledge of modern Romanticism and its critics.... The author ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of his life and work as bo...

Though sonnets are, generally, easy poems, Shakespeare’s sonnets are not, — and very naturally, he being a master-mind, — his sonnets are “far from...

British Romantic Poets — Critical Assessments is a selection of some of best critical writings available on the British Romantic period of English ...

This critical study of a key figure in Victorian literary society examines Walter Pater's work on art history, literature and Greek studies, as wel...

Collection of (1) Macbeth; The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599...

This volume, the seventh in the series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition ...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

This is a critical study on Paul Scott’s Novels. It explores in depth the novelist’s ‘private’ art of writing the novel as an image, symbol or an e...

The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and th...

The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the American edit...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Before Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a classic among ...

William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This select...