Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave new world. His revelation leads to a devastating conclusion. "O Primo Bazilio has a far deeper tragedy than Madame Bovary", wrote Roy Campbell, "because the girl involved is not a bi...

Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street...

In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's...

Laura (Riding) Jackson died in 1991 at the age of ninety. "The Poems of Laura Riding" were published in 1938, after which she renounced poetry, an act which still challenges her readers. That volume omitted some two hundred early pieces, all written...

"Forms of Distance" is Bei Dao's second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, Old Snow, as "the work of one of the great poets of our time", and John Cayley wrote in the Times Literary...

Layered with rich insight, this powerful collection of proseprovides an unidealistic stance on homosexualitythat evokes the many landscapes of sensuality and desire.

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.

This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addi...

These writings by David Wright collect his written conversations with friends, most of them fellow poets. Norman Nicolson, C. H. Sisson, George Barker and Charles Causley are among those included. The elegies, written in informal and direct language,...

Treatise on the "Arte of Limning" is one of the most important documents in the history of English art. Published in paperback for the first time, this edition provides a transcript of the original manuscript copy facing a modernised version, extensi...