Once upon a time, there were two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who gave the world some of the best-loved fairy tales ever written. From Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin to Snow White and The Brave Little Tailor, this charming anthology offers youn...

Many readers know Victorian England through the writings of Charles Dickens. Not only did Dickens put a face to the era through his memorable characters, he also captured the spirit of his age in entertaining fiction spun from its social concerns and...

Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With "Radial Symmetry", she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, as...

The poems in "The Sleepwalker at Sea" tread a fluid line between dream and wakefulness, memory and loss, presence and longing. Leave a house and it suddenly fills with "the unseen"; consult "The Book of Clues" and discover only 'ghostly hints' of a s...

Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the da...

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) ranks with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak as one of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets. Her suicide at the age of forty-eight was the tragic culmination of a life beset by loss and hardship. T...

"Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday" muses Gertrude Stein in "To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays". Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book "T...

"Emporium", Ian Pindar's first collection, is stocked with curiosities, jokes and horrors. Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on holiday, a transfixed girl in blue jeans, a wasp, tw...

"True Friendship" looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century – Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell – through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The critical a...

The English poet John Gower (ca. 1340-1408) wrote important Latin poems witnessing the two crucial political events of his day: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and in 1399 the deposition of Richard II, in the "Visio Anglie" ("A Vision of England") and "...