The essays, reviews, memoirs and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. Grouped into four sections (Art and Poetry; Autobiography and Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics...

Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the break-up of his marriage that year, rumours about a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with young actres...

With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as w...

With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of "The Golden Ass" breathes new life into Apuleius' classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skilfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of...

While living in exile with his family on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, Victor Hugo wrote some of his greatest poetry and prose, including "Les Miserables" and two epic poems: "Dieu" and "La Fin de Satan".Dieu" pictures the imaginary...

Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue a...

"Just then, Rahul saw a spot of yellow far away... The yellow glowed beautifully in the morning light. There was something different about this particular yellow and was totally unlike all others. This one entered through his eyes, dissolved in his b...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume I" contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon",‌ translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Antigone",‌ translat...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume II" contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra", translated by David Grene; Euripides's "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; Euripides's "Electra"...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume III" contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus", translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae",...