William Shakespeare

His introduction defines the critic's business as to see literature steadily and to see it whole. This, he argues, involves preserving tradition while also recognizing the solitude (a different thing from isolation) which...

This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ 's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed...

In this work, CSplaces Shakespeare in his Warwickshire context . . . by presenting brief sketches of neighbors and relations whose lives touched his own. The subjects CS chooses are not generally known...

LR has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound still believed that the movement...

In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...

Fox was also in attendance at CB 's lecture on Female Characters in our Literature, where the lecturer apparently observed that in Shakespeare the character is everything, often the circumstances in the different plays...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

Railway stations and refreshment rooms were now added to the list of amenities subject to critical comment. Clipped yew hedges near Nettlecombe in North Somerset were regarded as a relic of the past. They noted...

MB visited Stratford upon Avon, whose associations with Shakespeareproved a perfect source of inspiration to her.

They travelled via Stratford upon Avon, where they were gratified by the historical memory of Shakespeare , and then Ludlow, Montgomery, Dolgellau, and Caernarfon, to the seaside town of Barmouth...

She waxed satirical to Elizabeth Vesey about the two poems entered for the Academy's prize, and especially about the reading of Voltaire 's paper against Shakespeare (whose plays, recently translated into French, he thought capable...

Her role in the Porgy and Bess touring company was MA 's passport to travel the world. In Montreal she felt able for the first time in her life to look freely at white people...

She often visited Stratford-on-Avon to meet friends and to see Shakespeare plays; she noted that these trips restored and revitalised her.

A truck came to pick her up in the morning, giving her time to pack only a few warm clothes and books. She mistakenly packed two Bibles, and two collected Shakespeare s (which were...

Three years after this, on 16 June 1840 (a week before a special meeting of the Fund's board), she composed a letter setting out for consideration a reformed and improved method of distributing payments. This...