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A New and Critical Edition of George Osborns the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) Volume V, Parts I and II
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 199.95This fifth volume of the New Edition of George Osborns nineteenth-century collection of The Poetry of John and Charles Wesley continues to widen the access of the original poems of the eighteenth-century Wesleys, as well as their translations and altered versions of others poetical works. Although the total of thirteen volumes... more...
A Milton Chronology
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 168.00In this chronology Gordon Campbell brings his unique command of manuscripts associated with John Milton to the first synthesis of the Milton documents attempted in forty years. Many manuscripts that have been lost to view have been rediscovered, and some manuscripts that have never been seen by students of Milton are recorded here for the first time.... more...
Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 159.00Thomas Chatterton was a poet, forger, and adolescent suicide, and the debate over his work was a pivotal episode in the history of eighteenth-century literature. It ultimately established Chatterton as the inspiration for Romantic poets like Blake, Coleridge, and Keats. This book is a major collection of diverse new essays by scholars, critics, and... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 28.00A unique introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history. more...
The Debt to Pleasure
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 16.99Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and the words of those who loved or loathed him. The book is a mosaic in which the poet's voice and the voice of his age sound with a startling, ribald, and riotous clarity. more...
Exactly My Own Length
Carcanet 2012; US$ 14.51Olivia McCannon?s first collection explores life on the edge of possibility: in one moment the familiar is blown open, we plunge into the unknown. A chance meeting seals a lifetime; a girl leaps from a window, away from safety ? ?she wanted to see what can happen?. From families improvising a living space in Cairo?s City of the Dead, to a veteran... more...
The Works of Thomas Traherne V
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 130.00This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, 'Centuries of Meditations' and 'Select Meditations'. more...
David Garrick and the Development of English Comedy
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95David Garrick was an assiduous reader and collector of older English, and to some extent French plays and we can see him looking backwards, searching out and buying extant play collections offered for sale. Some of these plays he remodeled and imitated for his company. Looking forward, beyond him, we can see that his work was in turn admired, read,... more...
Congreve's The Way of the World
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99This concise supplement to William Congreve's The Way of the World helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. more...
Defoe's Moll Flanders
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1969; US$ 5.99This is a topsy-turvy story of a woman born in prison who led a life of crime and wantonness. Later in life she straightens herself out, grows rich, and lives an honest and penitent life. more...









