Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?'
W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of mode ... 続きを読む
This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutar ... 続きを読む
Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.'
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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and ... 続きを読む
A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and the Additions.
ABOUT ... 続きを読む
no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a woman ...from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence'
Chance(191 ... 続きを読む
he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself did not expect to reap some Advantage'
The real-life Jonathan W ... 続きを読む
Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can enter these gates without my permission.'
When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds ... 続きを読む
Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.'
This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multi ... 続きを読む
a world without love would be no world'
Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1 ... 続きを読む
