'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks n...

'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Ba...

Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favoura...

'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks n...

'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Ba...

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"e;The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage,"e; William Hazlit...

Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and cham...

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William Empson was one of the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century, and continues...