Charles Robert Maturin 
The Albigenses 
A Romance

The tumultuous relations between Britain and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century provide the backdrop to this book, striking new ground as its transnational framework permits an overview …

Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (1972) was the first account to be written of art in England in the period of Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon styles. Famous illuminated manuscripts, the best of th …

Celtic Britain (1979) traces the history of the Celts and Celtic culture from the arrival of the first scattered groups of settlers in Britain in the seventh century BC to the development of the king …

King Alfred”s West-Saxon Version of Gregory”s Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s lifetime, it affords data of the highest value for …

The long poem at the centre of John Hartley Williams” new collection is a dramatic monologue narrated by a laconic, possibly lamed, forest dweller, a lowly crewmember on a barge travelling an …

The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam ”Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from l …

This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation”s all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll”s curious ”Jabberwocky” to lesser known and forgotten gems …