Literature & Poetry

A new translation of a German classic play about Swiss national liberation

First novel in English translation by one of Estonia's leading contemporary writers. A semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman, set in the early 1960s, it narrates the efforts of Kaplinski's youthful alter ego to lose his innocence and attain sexual and mystical knowledge. The twenty-year-old protagonist ...

This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

The book argues that Cornwall helped to structure Keats's experience as a poet but also explores the central question of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to establish a broad readership where Keats's similarly indecorous publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference.

The third collection of Duberman's memoirs brings his story up to the present day. As the historian's public engagement deepens, he finds himself increasingly at odds with the mounting assimilations of the mainstream gay movement - and with the left itself, which he believes is smugly oblivious to the ...

Describes how writer Nagai Kafuμ (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

The story of this richly marked tabby with a silvery muzzle and a tendency to dribble was presented by the author to her husband Graham Greene, as a gift. It's about 'The Oldest Cat in Bristol' who was born in the summer of 1862 and lived with the same family all her life through four major wars, the Peace of Berlin and the Treaty of Versailles.

Dr Victoria Stewart explores the life and work of Sean O'Casey, whose writing career spanned some of the most tumultuous times in Ireland's history, tracing the path which led him to an association with Dublin's Abbey Theatre in the early 1920s, and the turn his career took after he made the decision to leave Ireland for good.

The first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature explores the changing face of fear in the BBC Reith Lectures 2004.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - in effect making him the first Poet Laureate.

Entertains and diverts by bizarre stories of mapless roads and unreal cities, the Ostrich Palisades and the erotic stones of Bonehenge.

The poems in this fifth collection of his poetry were written before, during and after Matt Simpson's two-month period as poet-in-residence at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania.

This is a biography of one of the most famous and best-selling authors of our time. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' has sold more than 65 million copies and, today, still sells 250,000 a year. Famously reclusive, little, until now, has been known of Salinger.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980...

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, four decades of separation seemed to have been brought to an end. In the literary arena as in many others, this seemed to be the surprising but ultimately logical end to the situation in which, after the extreme separation of the two Germanies' literatures during most of the period up to 1980...

The dialogue between form and message is intrinsic to the novel as genre. Yet the strength of that discourse has been shaken in the twentieth century by an increasing doubt about affirmations of any kind and a growing awareness of the relativity of knowledge and perception.