"...so that Emma found, on being escorted and followed into the second carriage by Mr Elton, that the door was to be lawfully shut on them, and that they were to have a tete-a-tete drive..." But which Emma? Jane Austen's or Flaubert's? Christine Bro...

HD's war "Trilogy" ranks with Eliot's "Four Quartets", Pound's "Pisan Cantos" and poems like Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain" as civilian war poetry in a war which tore apart so many of the cities of Europe. The outer violence of the scene touc...

"The Observer" described Anne Ridler as "one of the best poets of her generation". Anne Ridler's first book, "Poems", was published in 1939. She worked on the Faber editorial staff (1935-1940), for a time as assistant to T. S. Eliot. Her poetry devel...

These volumes contain the previously uncollected essays, journalism and interviews of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studie...

Substantial pieces on Scottish themes are assembled in this volume, from "Albyn" (1927) to "A Political Speech" delivered at Glasgow University in 1972. The editor has focused on MacDiarmid's view of powerful figures in Scottish culture, notably Davi...

"The Book of Disquietude" is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of himself. Conceived in 1916, Soares is, Pessoa declares, 'a mutilation' of his own personal...