John Updike 
Facing Nature 

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This …

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet …

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he com …

Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings togetherthe experiences of those intervening years in a stunning newcollection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay”s work, we …

Anthony Copley”s A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser”s The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A …

”I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.” Fired by his abiding love of the E …

This book aims to gather a selection that represents the diversity and richness of American poetry written by poets who share a sophistication that promises to evolve, with continued effort and risk, …