Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly....  Read More >>

Favorite Renaissance condiment at ""the great feast of language,"" the epigram is here presented full-flavored and...  Read More >>

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This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his writings were influenced by important contemporaries,...  Read More >>

""Well translated by Lacy Lockert, who provided an excellent critical introduction, this is a valuable selection...  Read More >>

When in his ""Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"" Pope referred to ""this long disease, my life,"" his statement was quite...  Read More >>

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Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation...  Read More >>

From a 250 year-old manuscript come these selections from the work of America's first important poet, Edward Taylor...  Read More >>

Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound,...  Read More >>

Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings...  Read More >>

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For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant...  Read More >>

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The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich...  Read More >>

The role of the human body as a poetic and ideological construct in the 1590 Faerie Queene provides the point of...  Read More >>

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To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing....  Read More >>

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