The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group. For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intend...

United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Jo...

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need t...

An invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture. In this intimate and eloquent meditation, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about w...

The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years. Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since th...

A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews – amassed over a lifetime of writing. In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times – a job he st...

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel. Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with...

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature. Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a you...

The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire. While not as well‑known as his other works, Charles Baudelaire's late poems, drafts of poems, and prose fragments are texts indispensable to th...

An account of the overlapping development of medicine and aesthetics during the Enlightenment and Romantic eras that develops a critical method attentive to aesthetics and poetics as sites for historical thinking. This book studies later eighteenth-...