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An English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking...

Enlighten climes and mould a future age;

From my mind to yours is a true discription of this book of poetry. It captivates you, each poem pulls you through a portal then takes you on a journey with the author. And if you are not a lover of poetry, then by the time you complete this book, you will be.

Almost everyone is aware of the strange coincidences and parallels between Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy but did you know that practically every American president has some little known connection with another past or future president? In Presidential Parallels, What Our Presidents Had in Common,...

This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private...

It happened nigh on seven years ago, when I was living in one of the districts of the J. province, on the estate of Bielokurov, a landowner, a young man who used to get up early, dress himself in a long overcoat, drink beer in the evenings, and all the while complain to me that he could nowhere find...

It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Poets themselves. The majority of the following poems are to be considered as...

This is a striking debut volume by the winner of the Unaipon prize for unpublished Aboriginal writers. In a voice youthful, passionate and questioning, these poems reflect on growing up and on letting go; on urban dwellers in love and lust; and on the artist and his Murri community. The politics are...

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...

1999, inverno. Un anziano percorre una strada solitaria tra le montagne norvegesi, di ritorno a casa dopo aver festeggiato il Natale con la famiglia. Improvvisamente, i fari della macchina illuminano qualcosa davanti a lui. L’uomo frena di colpo. L’auto si ferma a pochi centimetri dalla figura...

Breaking away from traditional chronological recitals of the Greek experience, this unusual new history relates the important events and personalities to themes of broad interest.