- Advertisements for Myself
- Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best.
- Paperback
- Alexander Pope
- Hardcover 1972
- André Gide
- In this literary biography of Gide, an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man emerges. Following Gide from his first forays among the Symbolists through his sexual and political awakenings to his worldwide fame as a writer, sage, and commentator on his age, Sheridan richly conveys the drama of a remarkable life; the depth, breadth, and vitality of an incomparable oeuvre; and the spirit of a time that both so aptly expressed.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- Antonio Machado
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- In this fresh examination of Clough, Greenberger traces the intellectual development of a poet who was considered a brilliant failure in his own day, a reputation that still persists despite the fact that Clough is now attracting considerable critical attention. Her study contradicts this traditional view of him as ineffectual and uncommitted and reveals instead a complex figure whose varied interests enriched his prose and poetry.
- Hardcover 1970
- Ben Jonson
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback
- Brook Farm
- In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Delano reveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures, a declining faith in their leaders, and smoldering class antagonisms. This wonderfully evocative account vividly chronicles the spirit of the Transcendental age.
- Hardcover 2004
- Browning's Youth
- Hardcover 1977
- Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume I, 'In my hot youth', 1798-1810
- The first volume of Byron's letters and journals covers his early years and includes his first pilgrimage to Greece and to the East, ending with his last letter from Constantinople on July 4, 1810, before his departure for Athens. Here is the direct record of his rapid development from the serious schoolboy to the facetious youth with ambivalent reactions to his perplexed mother, and the maturing man of extraordinary perceptions and sympathies and friendships.
- Hardcover 1973
- Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume III, 'Alas! the love of women', 1813-1814
- The third volume starts with Byron at the first crest of his fame following the publication of Childe Harold. It includes his literary letters to Tom Moore, frank and intimate ones to Hobhouse, pungent ones to Hanson and Murray, and his lively and amusing missives to Lady Melbourne, his confidante through all his love affairs.
- Hardcover 1974
- Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IV, 'Wedlock's the devil', 1814-1815
- In this volume Byron corresponds with writers such as Thomas Moore, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, and "Monk" Lewis, with John Murray about the publication of The Corsair, Lara, and the Hebrew Melodies, and with many personal friends. A new interest is his association with the Drury Lane Theater. The crucial events of his private life at this time are his engagement to Anabella Milbanke and their marriage early in 1815--a marriage that was to last little more than a year. Especially revelatory are his letters to his fiancée and those to his long-time confidante, Lady Melbourne.
- Hardcover 1975
- Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume V, 'So late into the night', 1816-1817
- In the fifth installment of this marvelous serial story, we read about Byron's separation from his wife. Besides his pleading letters to Annabella asking her to reconsider, there are level-headed letters to Murray and Hobhouse and Hunt and Rogers--all written during the tempestuous time before his final departure from England. The very best letters here are the ones from Italy; freed from the inhibitions of English society, Byron's spirit seems to expand and his letters reflect the joie de vivre that, despite his melancholy, was an inherent part of his character.
- Hardcover 1976
- Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VI, 'The flesh is frail', 1818-1819
- Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death).
- Hardcover 1976
- Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VIII, 'Born for opposition', 1821
- Born for Opposition opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics." His Journal, written while the insurrection grew, is a remarkable record of his reading and reflections while awaiting the sounds of gunfire.
- Hardcover 1978
- Charles Olson
Charles Olson is often described as one of the most influential American poets of the last quarter century; some would rather describe him as a cult figure, prophet of the Black Mountain poets and their descendants. Both judgments refer to an influence exerted as much through theories as through poems. Here is an examination of Olson's understanding of poetry that is cogent and a pleasure to read. It provides the framework needed for understanding Olson's work.
- Hardcover 1978
- Coming to Writing" and Other Essays
- This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Derrida
- Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. He explains the significance of Derrida's writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placing him squarely within that tradition. He also discusses some of the reasons for the massive institutional resistance that has so far prevented philosophers from engaging seriously with Derrida's work.
- Paperback
- Edwin Arlington Robinson's Letters to Edith Brower
- The letters begin when the twenty-seven-year-old poet writes gratefully to the stranger who has expressed appreciation of his first, privately printed, book of poems. Soon he was carrying on an intense correspondence, baring his soul--safely, he believed, because the woman he described as "infernally bright and not at all ugly," with "something of a literary reputation," was "too old to give me a chance to bother myself with any sentimental uneasiness."
- Hardcover 1968
- Emerson
- In this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, and philosopher.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- Emerson in His Journals
- This long-awaited volume offers the general reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for more than fifty years. Drawing from Harvard's sixteen-volume scholarly edition of the journals--but omitting the textual apparatus that makes it hard to read--Porte presents a sympathetic selection that brings us close to Emerson the man.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- Emily Dickinson
- When the complete Letters of Emily Dickinson appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the Los Angeles Times, saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America literature, women's experience in the ninteenth century, and literature in general.
- Paperback
- Eugenio Montale
- Hardcover 1981
- Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega
- Trueblood pursues the artistic consequences of a key experience in Lope's life, the four-year love affair with Elena Osorio that terminated violently in 1587. Trueblood provides by far the fullest analysis and elucidation of Lope's masterpiece, La Dorotea, that it has ever received.
- Hardcover 1974
- Fernan Mendez Pinto
- Hardcover 1974
- Flaubert
- Brown brings his subject remarkably and fully to life, illuminating not only the novelist but also his milieu--the Paris and Normandy of the revolution of 1848 and of the Second Empire--with arresting clarity and a deepening sense of Flaubert's time and place. Flaubert is a sophisticated, thorough, and utterly absorbing re-creation of the life and times of the man who is arguably the architect of the modern novel.
- Paperback 2007
- The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
- In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience. A chapter by Louise Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway's work and eroded his life. Masterfully written, Hemingway brings to life the writer whose desperate struggle to exorcise his demons produced some of the greatest American fiction of this century.
- Paperback
- Henry James
- Edel has chosen, from the four-volume epistolarium already published, those letters which especially illuminate James's writing, his life, his thoughts and fancies, his literary theories, and his most meaningful friendships. In addition, there are two dozen letters that have never before been printed. In its unity, its elegance, and its reflection of almost a century of Anglo-American life and letters, this correspondence can well be said to belong to literature as well as to biography.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990
- Homer the Classic
- Paperback 2006
- In Search of Nella Larsen
- Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook, Nella Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Her writings about that life, briefly celebrated in her time, were lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many. In his search for Nella Larsen, George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, as well as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as it was lived by one person who truly embodied all of its ambiguities and complexities.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Inman Diary
- Hardcover
- The Invention of Jane Harrison
- Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Mary Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Invention of Li Yu
- Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was an exceptional figure in Chinese culture for two reasons: his disregard of the authority of tradition, and his dedication to the cause of comedy.
- Hardcover 1988
- Invisible Friends
- Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Benjamin Robert Haydon never met, their lively and topical conversation, initiated in 1842, continued unabated until 1845, about a year before the painter's suicide. It was a somewhat lopsided correspondence in which ninety–four letters written by Haydon, most of which have not been published before, received fewer replies from Miss Barrett, twenty–eight of which are included in this book. Judging from the contents of the letters, the epistolary friendship was truly meaningful to both. To Miss Barrett, Haydon was “my dear kind friend”; he was far more effusive, addressing her as “you Ingenious little darling invisible” and “my dearest dream & invisible intellectuality.”
- Hardcover
- John Keats
- Since most of Keats's early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. This is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole.
- Hardcover 1963 / Paperback 1979
- Johnson and His Age
- Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson's life, major figures of the age, and the novel.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, 1822-1826
- Hardcover 1961
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV, 1832-1834
- Hardcover 1964
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IX, 1843-1847
- The pages of these five journals covering the years 1843 to 1847 are filled with Emerson's struggle to formulate the true attitude of the scholar to the vexing question of public involvement. Pulled between his belief that a disinterested independence was a requisite for the writer and the public demands heaped upon him as a leading intellectual figure, he notes to himself that he "pounds...tediously" on the "exemption of the writer from all secular works."
- Hardcover 1971
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI, 1824-1838
- Hardcover 1966
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, 1838-1842
- Hardcover 1969
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII, 1841-1843
- Hardcover 1970
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume X, 1847-1848
- Emerson's journals of 1847-1848 deal primarily with his second visit to Europe, occasioned by a British lecture tour. The journals of these years, alogn with associated notebooks and letters, recorded the materials for lectures that Emerson composed while abroad, for additional lectures on England and the English that he wrote shortly after his return to Concord, and ultimately, for English Traits, the book growing out of his travels that he was to publish in 1856.
- Hardcover 1973
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XI, 1848-1851
- Hardcover 1975
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII, 1835-1862
- The twelfth volume makes available nine of Emerson's lecture notebooks, covering a span of twenty-seven years, from 1835 to 1862, from apprenticeship to fame. These notebooks contain materials Emerson collected for the composition of his lectures, articles, and essays during those years, a complex mixture of indexlike surveys of his journals, lists of possible topics and titles, salvaged journals passages and revisions, new drafts ranging from brief paragraphs to several pages in length, notes and translations from his reading, working notes, and partial outlines.
- Hardcover 1976
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIII, 1852-1855
- Hardcover 1977
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIV, 1854-1861
- The journals from 1854 to 1861 show the ripeness of Emerson's thought overshadowed by the gravest problem of his time--slavery. In addition to completing English Traits (1856) and Conduct of Life (1860), Emerson wrote many of the lectures and articles that made up his next book, Society and Solitude. He also contributed often to The Atlantic Monthly after helping to found that magazine in 1857. These notebooks and journals bring the philosopher of "the infinitude of the private man" to January 1861 and the brink of war.
- Hardcover 1978
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV, 1860-1866
- The Civil War is a pervasive presence in the journals in this volume. "The war searches character," Emerson wrote. Both his reading and his writing reflected his concern for the endurance of the nation, whose strength lay in the moral strength of the people. He read military biographies and memoirs, while turning again to Persian, Chinese, and Indian literature. The deaths of Clough, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and his aunt Mary Moody Emerson prompted him to reread their letters and journals, remembering and reappraising.
- Hardcover 1982
- The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XVI, 1866-1882
- The final volume of the Harvard edition presents the journals of Emerson's last years. In them, he reacts to the changing America of the post-Civil War years, commenting on Reconstruction, immigration, protectionism in trade, and the dangers of huge fortunes in few hands--as well as on baseball and the possibilities of air travel. Finally, his late journals show Emerson confronting his loss of creative vigor, husbanding his powers, and maintaining his equanimity in the face of decline.
- Hardcover 1982
- The Journals of Claire Clairmont
- The diaries of Clairmont are, so far as is known, the last of the major documents of the Shelley-Byron circle to be published. Only the writings of the Shelleys themselves surpass hers in importance for those interested in the careers of the poets and their friends. Best known as Byron's mistress and the mother of his daughter Allegra, "Claire," as she preferred to be called, is important to literary history for her role in bringing Byron and Shelley together.
- Hardcover 1968
- Kafka
- In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man who gave his name to a central facet of modern experience, the Kafkaesque. Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote the first major critical biography of Kafka, draws upon a wealth of new and recent information to produce a concise but finely nuanced portrait of the author, an ideal introduction to this quintessential figure of modernity.
- Hardcover 2003
- Lao She and the Chinese Revolution
- By exhaustively analyzing Lao She's literary writings, Vohra traces the development of his political consciousness and convictions. Besides being an introduction to the life and works of Lao She, this book contributes to a greater understanding of the nature of the social and political change in twentieth-century China.
- Hardcover 1974
- Learned Lady
- In reproducing sixty-six letters in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, plus eight letters or portions of letters previously published, this book offers one of the best sources available for the last fourteen years of Browning's life. Written to a dear friend who was also a "learned lady," the letters deal with Browning's poetry, his social life, and his friendships. They also give some of his views on the nature of poetry, of art, and of religion.
- Hardcover 1966
- The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume I, 1821-1850
- In a comprehensive introduction the editors present not only the biographical background, with vivid portrayals of the dramatis personae, but also the story of the manuscripts, the ones that were destroyed and the many that luckily survived. The editors have garnered and selected a large number of letters to and about Tennyson which supplement his own letters, fill in lacunae in the narrative, and reveal him to us as his friends and contemporaries saw him.
- Hardcover 1981
- The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II, 1851-1870
- Volume II reveals the gradual emergence of a new and different Tennyson, moving confidently among the great and famous, yet remaining very much a son of Lincolnshire. Through the letters we learn something about his poetry, much about his dealings with publishers, and even more about his travels; and it is clear that all that he met became part of him and of his poetry.
- Hardcover 1987
- Letters of Emily Dickinson
- Hardcover
- The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
- The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880
- An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer's life and times. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert's own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. Flaubert's letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volumes 1 and 2, 1814-1843
- Most of the letters, which are of prime importance in America's cultural history, have never before been published. The remainder that have appeared in print frequently did so in emasculated form and in a wide variety of books and journals. Here, scrupulous annotations supply relevant identifications of individuals, explain allusions, and present information regarding the addresses of letters, endorsements, postmarks, and the location of manuscripts.
- Hardcover 1967
- The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volumes 3 and 4, 1844-1865
- These letters carry Longfellow through the remarkable period when he was gaining renown both at home and abroad as the poet laureate of America. His influence swelled with the publication of such works as Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Part One of Tales of a Wayside Inn. During these twenty-two years his correspondence proliferated, reaching at least 4000 letters, of which 1500 are known to have survived and are reproduced in these two volumes.
- Hardcover 1972
- The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Hardcover 1975
- The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821, Volumes 1 and 2,
- Rollins, one of the world's foremost Keats authorities, has prepared a completely new edition of all the extant letters, with an extensive listing of the letters presumed missing. In addition to many letters from Keats' relatives and friends, the present work includes seven letters or other documents signed or written by Keats that appear in no English edition, and also new texts of seven other letters by the poet.
- Hardcover 1958 / Hardcover 2002
- The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell
- Hardcover 1966
- Letters to Molly
- When Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease and would die in three years. Seldom able to be alone together, they wrote letters almost daily. Synge's letters--hers do not survive--are a poignant record of a love that was foredoomed.
- Hardcover 1971 / Paperback 1984
- A Life in Letters, 1914-1982
- Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, his biography does unfold, inscribing a life that epitomized the intellectual ferment and political drama of an era.
- Hardcover 2002
- The Life of Emily Dickinson
- Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet. How did Emily Dickinson, from the small window over her desk, come to see a life that included the horror, exaltation and humor that lives her poetry? With abundance and impartiality, Sewall shows us not just the poet nor the poetry, but the woman and her life.
- Paperback 1998
- A Lion for Love
- Paperback 1986
- Loneliness as a Way of Life
- “What does it mean to be lonely?” Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. This book challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way.
- Hardcover 2008
- Lord Byron
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback
- Marianne Moore
- Not confessional or autobiographical, not openly political or gender-conscious: all that Marianne Moore's poetry is not has masked what it actually is. Cristanne Miller's aim is to lift this mask and reveal the radically oppositional, aesthetic, and political nature of the poet's work.
- Hardcover 1995
- The Marquis de Sade
- Neil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis," the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century France, he shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination.
- Paperback 2000
- Memorias
- This is the first printed edition of the sixteenth-century autograph manuscript by the Castilian Sancho Cota, secretary to Eleanor, sister of the Spanish Emperor Charles V, and later Queen of Portugal and France. The language of the original, typical of Toledan speech in the early sixteenth century, is preserved without change. An informative introduction discusses the language and the work, and provides the reader with a brief biography of the author.
- Hardcover 1964
- The Notebooks of Robert Frost
- Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. His notebooks, presented here in their entirety for the first time and covering the late 1890s to the early 1960s, offer unprecedented insight into Frost's complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, science, and religion.
- Hardcover 2007
- One First Love
- Letters, poems, and fragments of a journal are the only first-hand reflection we have of a personality of major importance in the life of Emerson, that of the beautiful and gifted Ellen Louisa Tucker, whom he married in 1829. The depth and transforming effect on him of their happy love is a universally acknowledged biographical fact, as is the tragic, shattering effect of her early death in 1831.
- Hardcover 1962
- One Writer's Beginnings
- Eudora Welty, whose many honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction, tells the story of her early life and offers guidance for those who aspire to write fiction. Now available as an audio CD, in Welty's own voice, or as a book.
- Paperback 1998 / CD-audio 2004 / Hardcover
- One Writer's Beginnings
- Eudora Welty, whose many honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction, tells the story of her early life and offers guidance for those who aspire to write fiction. Now available as an audio CD, in Welty's own voice, or as a book.
- Paperback 1998 / CD-audio 2004 / Hardcover
- Out of the Alleyway
- In this critical study of Nakagami's life and oeuvre, Zimmerman delves into the writer's literary world, exploring the genres, forms, and themes with which Nakagami worked and experimented. These chapters trace the biographical thread running through his works while foregrounding such diverse facets of his writing as his interest in the modern possibilities of traditional myths and forms of storytelling, his deployment of shocking tropes and images, and his crafting of a unique poetic language.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Passion of Emily Dickinson
- In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, deciphering their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day. In Farr's analysis, the poet emerges not as a cryptic proto-modern or a victim of female repression but as a cultivated mid-Victorian in whom the romanticism of Emerson and the American landscape painters found bold expression.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1998
- Profile of Horace
- In this concise analysis, written with elegant wit, the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace. In a reading of all the poetry, but focusing especially on problematic areas, Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation.
- Hardcover 1982
- Reading Tao Yuanming
- Tao Yuanming (365?–427), although dismissed as a poet following his death, is now considered one of China’s greatest writers. This study of the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself and of particular readings of his works sheds light on the transformation of literature and culture in premodern China.
- Hardcover 2008
- Resemblance and Disgrace
- By restoring the poet's image to view against the cultural background that branded it as monstrous, Deutsch recasts Pope's literary career as a form of monstrous embodiment--a stamping of his own image on fragments of the cultural past.
- Hardcover 1996
- Risking Who One Is
- Susan Suleiman sets forth in this insightful work an intimate and provocative exchange with contemporary writers and artists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Elie Wiesel, Mary Gordon, Max Ernst and Angela Carter. Suleiman includes us in her voyages of self-discovery as she confronts the conflicts between the problematic and crucial relations between individual life-story and collective history.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Road of Excess
- From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- Samuel Johnson
- Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin’s biography gives us a human and sympathetic portrait of Dr. Johnson. The Johnson that emerges from this biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable, flawed, and sympathetic figure than has been previously known.
- Hardcover 2008
- Selected Letters of John Keats
- This new edition affords readers the pleasure of John Keats' "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. This selection lends great perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet and recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- Selected Letters, Volume II, 1921-1970
- Hardcover
- Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 1 and 2,
- Hardcover 1961
- Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 3 and 4,
- Hardcover 1970
- Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 5 and 6,
- Hardcover 1973
- Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 7 and 8,
- Hardcover 1986
- Shelley's Major Verse
- Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.
- Hardcover 1988
- The Singer of Tales
- This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales--was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose.
- Mixed 2000
- Six Memos for the Next Millenium
- "Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function." - Italo Calvino
- Hardcover
- Swift, Volume 1, Mr. Swift and His Contemporaries
- In this first volume of three the author treats in detail the events of Swift's life, the historical and social setting of those events, the evolution of Swift's character, and the composition and interpretation of his works. New and important material is included concerning Swift's family and career, his emotional life, his relations with Sir William Temple, the design and meaning of A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books.
- Hardcover 1962
- Swift, Volume 2, Dr. Swift
- This is the second volume of Ehrenpreis's trilogy, and deals with the period 1699-1714. The years between 1699 and 1710 were a time of training--in some ways unfortunate, as Ehrenpreis shows--for the dramatic four years which followed for Swift, as a political journalist in England.
- Hardcover 1967
- Thoreau
- Hildebidle sees Thoreau as representative of a long-standing American tendency simultaneously to reject and to use the past, and shows how, as naturalist, he brought together science and literary aims. This gracefully written analysis of Thoreau's thinking and style will well serve all readers of Thoreau and those interested in natural history as a genre.
- Hardcover 1983
- To Be the Poet
- "I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.
- Hardcover 2002
- Turgenev
- Paperback
- The Turning Key
- Hardcover 1984
- The Uses of Error
- This book is a record of Kermode's "error," his wandering through literature past and present. He notes that "in thirty-odd years I have written several hundred reviews, an example I would strongly urge the young not to follow" From these hundreds Kermode has selected the pieces he treasures most, and they provide an example that indeed will be difficult to follow.
- Hardcover 1991
- The Winnington Letters
- Hardcover 1969
- Writing Was Everything
- A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. It stands as clear testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- i--six nonlectures
- The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." These talks contain selections from the poetry of Wordsworth, Donne, Shakespeare, Dante, and others, including e.e. cummings. Together, they form a good introduction to cummings's work.
- Hardcover 1953 / Paperback 1991