Donald Davie is a poet-critic: his admirable essays are free of jargon, full of the clarity and insight of a major practitioner of the poetic art. His writing is in every sense refreshing: a pleasure to read and an inspiration to re-read the writers...

They also will discover emotional insights capable of enhancing their own lives: Finding new truths as old as the Greeks.

Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street...

Treatise on the "Arte of Limning" is one of the most important documents in the history of English art. Published in paperback for the first time, this edition provides a transcript of the original manuscript copy facing a modernised version, extensi...

When he was twenty, C. H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. He was brought face-to-face with a realty of politics largely ignored by English radicals of the 1930s. He returned home at once more European and more viv...