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Book SynopsisDavid Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.Trade Review'It is the superbly generous girth of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays that makes them so remarkable' * Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 15.07.10 *'Shakespeare's story of a troubled usurper, a rebel age, a dissolute prince and his Falstaff.' * Libby Purves, The Times, 16.07.10 *'This is Shakespeare's masterpeice where diseaeses are turned to commodity, the hostess is eaten out of house and home, citizens are urged to construe the time to their neccessities, and white hairs ill become a fool and jester.' * Michael Coveney, Independent, 16.07.10 *

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Book SynopsisIt is generally accepted that Paul Celan is a notoriously ‘difficult’ poet to understand, yet this small collection, with an introduction by a leading expert on Holocaust poetry, and with each of the ten poems accompanied by a brief note which acts as a contextual orientation for the reader, is an excellent starting-point for anyone who is not familiar with his poems.

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Book SynopsisCan some truths ever be captured, either in images or words?

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Book SynopsisAnthology of contemporary and classic poetry and prose compiled by author and academic Richard Davenport-Hines

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Book SynopsisDal Kular is a Sheffield born and based writer of Punjabi/Sikh heritage. She is a facilitator, tutor and mentor specialising in creative writing arts for healing. (un)interrupted tongues unfolds Kular's creative journey and life as a working-class woman of colour. Written and created intuitively, Kular seeks to unravel the past, in order to understand the present and to heal. Here, unbelonging is power. These poems are love letters to the reader, to never give up on creative dreams.

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Book SynopsisClimacteric noun 1. a critical period or event. "the first major climacteric in twenty-first-century poetry" 2. MEDICINE the period of life when fertility is in decline; (in women) menopause. "most women do not experience significant psychological problems at the climacteric" "our hair is coming out in clumps; we are sweeping it from corners, from beneath the bed, gathering it into our sleepless nest" How can we love ourselves at the climacteric of our lives; of the planet? Jo Bratten's debut poetry chapbook bubbles with anger and guilt at the failures of both spirit and body and a coming to terms with loss, for the natural passing of loved ones, and the unnatural passing of our planet's ecosystems. These poems offer solace: you are not alone - "In the fractured dark we're all doomscrolling/before dawn, lit up like Caravaggios." They offer the simplest kind of love: the joy that can be found within nature.Trade Review"I loved these poems. Jo Bratten's work has a dark, foreboding quality but it's also inventive, sensual, and caustic, with bags of attitude and fresh language. Highly recommended."- Luke Wright

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Book SynopsisSpace Baby asks difficult questions about the Earth, its beings, and what lies ahead for them; how do we look to the future on a planet that’s burning? How do we come to terms with our grief, and what can we believe in? If the human race destroys what we have, where will we go?In this dystopian, searching book, Evans mixes absurdity and wit with speculative, serious themes. Here, artificial intelligence and robots will ‘cuddle you to sleep’, the melting permafrost will reveal its surprises, and we encoutner the very first human baby born in space. Ultimately, Evans writes to acknowledge our responsibilities and interconnectedness with earth and all its lifeforms, as well as to our future generations. These are vivid, prescient poems of existence, and survival, which ask how we can still find joy on a ruined planet.

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Book SynopsisThere is (still) love here, the compelling new collection of poetry by Dean Atta, is a personal and powerful exploration of relationships, love and loss, encompassing LGBTQ+ and Black history, Greek Cypriot heritage, pride and identity, dislocation and belonging.Atta’s tender, precisely-crafted and generous poems seek consolation and affirmation. These are poems as an antidote for challenging times, whether facing prejudice or the challenges of the pandemic, experiencing grief or recovering from heartbreak. Here, we encounter blue feelings and homesickness, things lost in translation and the pressures of the many roles we play in life. We also find the recipes of home, gifts and giving, the togetherness of community and connection to help us to heal. There is still love here - and journeys towards forgiveness, acceptance, queer joy and the power to unapologetically be yourself and fully embrace who you are.

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Book SynopsisThe Retrieved Attachments in Peter Robinson’s new collection are to people and places, friends and loved ones, mentor poets and artists. Deploying the full range of his gifts, these poems are characteristically responsive both to fresh encounters and evocative returns. Presented in five titled sections they revisit the landscapes of his years in Japan, find a way to tell the story of a heartbreak, return to familial locations in an unvisitable Italy, elegize or re-encounter companions and friends, and, for the final section, recover intimate senses of a locality’s flora and fauna. Peter Robinson has been described as ‘the finest poet of his generation’ (PN Review) and ‘a major English poet’ (Poetry Review). Retrieved Attachments again shows why.Trade Review"Robinson’s attentiveness to the nuances of place, even those that appear unpromising on conventional aesthetic terms, has been apparent since his very earliest work and poems here like ‘Across the Park’, ‘Toast Funèbre’ and ‘Behind the Shops’ are further examples of this – acute observations of the modern human landscape that excavate meaning from what’s typically overlooked or ignored and connects it into the broader state we’re in." - Tom Phillips, in The High Window

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Book SynopsisGenevieve Taggard is recognized as one of the finest American poets of the 20 th century. Her work appears in every major anthology of American poetry. Yet this is the first comprehensive collection of her work ever to appear.To Test the Joy collects the best of Genevieve Taggard’s poetry, fiction, memoirs, and criticism, providing a superb overview of her remarkable life and career. Taggard constantly challenged herself as a woman, as a citizen, and as an artist. She strove constantly to find deeper meanings in herself, in her times, and in the world around her. The result is a poetry of exceptional power and precision: “a product of fine discipline, a complete and unusual blending,” as one reviewer put it.Genevieve Taggard’s life and work embraced issues and experiences at the core of 20th Century history: the oppression of colonialism; the fight for the rights of women; the struggle of labour against capitalism; the destruction of nature by industrialization. Issues and experiences that are still relevant today.To Test the Joy weaves Taggard’s poetry and prose with critical commentary by Anne Hammond that leads the reader through Taggard’s life, from her childhood days in Hawai’i to the Bohemian world of 1920s New York City to the strikes and protests of the 1930s and her return to the green world of her Vermont farm in the 1940s.

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Book SynopsisThe Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions.Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn between past principles and future prosperity, and of a deeply sympathetic leader doomed to failure, made the play hugely controversial and prophetic when it was first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993.The Absence of War is much more than a piece of skilled reporting. It is actually cast as a classic tragedy.'' Guardian

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Book SynopsisYou used to swing me on our garden gate. In and out, in and out out and in, me, on top of the gate, safe because I was in your arms, my father's big strong arms.Recalling events that may or may not have happened, people he may or may not have known, an elderly father weaves his life, funny, angry, poignant, as if in a dream.His daughter, perched outside his window, as close as the pandemic allows, responds with conflicting memories. They sing and argue, they broach dangerous ground, their profound love apparent despite themselves, until the visiting hour is up.Written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, Frank McGuinness's The Visiting Hour premiered in April 2021 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the first online Gate At Home production.

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Book SynopsisThe author brings together such favorite poems as I Wrote a Good Omelet, Seduction, and My House, in a collection of romantic, erotic, and poignant poetry that also includes twenty new pieces.

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Book SynopsisA timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people—immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more.Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and where we can all truly thrive.The poems form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the

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Book SynopsisWar All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and future colliding.

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Book SynopsisAugusta Webster was very widely praised in her own time—Christina Rossetti thought her "by far the most formidable" woman poet. Her work has again come into favour, so much so that Isobel Armstrong and her co-editors of the influential anthology, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, declare that "there can be no doubt that Augusta Webster ranks as one of the great Victorian poets." This collection is the first edition of Webster's poems since 1895. It is a selection of her best work, emphasizing her powerful dramatic monologues and including a substantial number of her lyrics. With an introduction and background documents that highlight the distinctiveness of her work, this edition will help to re-establish Augusta Webster as a major figure of nineteenth-century English literature.Trade ReviewAugusta Webster's powerful and witty, disarmingly casual essays incisively explore such topics as the creation of selfhood, the social constraints that mar women's happiness, and the struggle for women's rights. Reintroducing Webster's writings after a century of neglect, Christine Sutphin provides generous, well-chosen selections of both poetry and prose as well as an informative introduction and useful supplementary materials. Anyone interested in Victorian poetry, women's writing, or nineteenth-century feminism will appreciate this extremely interesting volume by an important Victorian writer." - Dorothy Mermin, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWorks CitedAugusta Webster: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextWORKSFrom Dramatic Studies (1866) Jeanne D’ArcSister Annunciata— An Anniversary Abbess Ursula’s Lecture The Snow WasteWith the DeadBy the Looking-Glass From A Woman Sold and Other Poems (1867) A Woman Sold— Eleanor Vaughan Lady Boycott From Anno Domini 33 Pilate The Old Year Out and the New Year InToo FaithfulTo One of ManyTo and FroFrom Portraits (first edition 1870; enlarged edition, 1893):Medea in AthensCirceThe Happiest Girl in the WorldA CastawayFadedA Soul in PrisonTiredComing HomeIn an AlmshouseA PreacherA PainterAn InventorA DilettanteYu-Pe-Ya’s Lute. A Chinese Tale in English Verse (1874)From A Book of Rhyme (1881):Poulain the PrisonerNot LoveEnglish RispettiMother and Daughter. An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence (1895)Appendix A: A Selection of Essays from A Housewife’s Opinions (1879):A Transcript and a TranscriptionPoets and Personal PronounsUniversity Degrees for WomenProtection for the Working WomanHusband-Hunting and Match-MakingThe Dearth of HusbandsAn Irrepressible ArmyParliamentary Franchise for WomenRatepayersAppendix B: Contemporary ReviewsReview of Dramatic Studiesfrom the Reader (June 2, 1866)from the Nonconformist (June 27, 1866)from the Athenaeum (August 11, 1866)from the Westminster Review (October 1866)from the Contemporary Review (December, 1866)Review of A Woman Sold from the Saturday Review (February 9, 1867)Review of Portraits from the Westminster Review (April 1, 1870)from the Nonconformist (May 11, 1870)from the Examiner and London Review (May 21, 1870)Review of Portraits (1893 edition) and Selections from the Verse of Augusta Webster from the Athenaeum (August 26, 1893)

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Book SynopsisDoctor Faustus is a classic; its imaginative boldness and vertiginous ironies have fascinated readers and playgoers alike. But the fact that this play exists in two early versions, printed in 1604 and 1616, has posed formidable problems for critics. How much of either version was written by Marlowe, and which is the more authentic? Is the play orthodox or radically interrogative? Michael Keefer’s early work helped to establish the current consensus that the 1604 text was censored and revised; the Keefer edition, praised for its lucid introduction and scholarship, was the first to restore two displaced scenes to their correct place. Most competing editions presume that the 1604 text was printed from authorial manuscript, and that the 1616 text is of little substantive value. But in 2006 Keefer’s fresh analysis of the evidence showed that the 1604 quarto’s Marlovian scenes were printed from a corrupted manuscript, and that the 1616 quarto (though indeed censored and revised) preserves some readings earlier than those of the 1604 text. This edition has been updated and revised. Keefer’s critical introduction reconstructs the ideological contexts that shaped and deformed the play, and the text is accompanied by textual and explanatory notes and excerpts from sources.Trade Review“This edition is absolutely essential for any serious student or teacher of this perpetually intriguing and vexing play.” — Peter G. Platt in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 48.2 (Spring 2008)“Michael Keefer’s revised edition of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is now all the more an indispensable text for students, teachers, and scholars of early modern English drama. It combines immense learning with perfect clarity and accessibility. It gives us a solidly reconceived text and also a brilliant historical introduction that fills each line of this strange and moving play with the sounds of a world in intellectual and religious crisis.” — Paul Yachnin, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the Revised Edition, 2006Preface to the First Edition, 1991IntroductionChristopher Marlowe: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Tragical History of Doctor FaustusAppendix A: Non-parallel Scenes from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)Appendix B: Excerpts from The Historie of the damnable life, and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus (1592)Appendix C: Excerpts from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum (1530), and De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533)Appendix D: Excerpts from Jean Calvin, The Institution of Christian Religion (1561)Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisNative Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.Trade Review“In one of her poems Rita Joe writes, ‘I lost my talk/The talk you took away.’ In another, she claims, ‘And I will relate wonders to my people.’ The first statement brings us face-to-face with the attempted destruction of Native People and their rich and varied cultures, including their mother tongues. The second affirms the blessings that poems can bring to a particular people and to others who want to listen. What the poets in this anthology bring to the page is, indeed, a series of wonders. Such a gathering of writers and words, to borrow a phrase from Wayne Keon, makes ‘all the stars/cooperate/and come out shining.’” — Lorna Crozier, University of Victoria, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry“This collection shows the breadth of contemporary Native poetry, from the resistance literature of the many poems remembering the murdered Helen Betty Osborne to the playful fishing game of Daniel David Moses; it is an excellent anthology.” — Terry Goldie, York University, co-editor of An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English“Armstrong and Grauer have arranged a collection of works of extraordinary breadth in their thematic treatment of cultural, political, and spiritual subjects. Instructors will value the accompanying biographical information, the substantial selections from each poet’s work, and the authors’ prefatory comments, all of which situate this collection as an ideal text for the university classroom.” — Canadian LiteratureTable of ContentsFour Decades: An Anthology of Canadian Native Poetry from 1960 to 2000, Jeannette C. ArmstrongTuning Up, Tuning In, Lally GrauerA Note on the TextCHIEF DAN GEORGEA Lament for ConfederationWords to a GrandchildIf the legends fall silentKeep a few embers from the fireMy people’s memory reachesTo a Native TeenagerI have known youRITA JOEI am the IndianYour buildingsWen net ki’l/Who are you?When I was smallExpect nothing else from meShe spoke of paradiseI Lost My TalkDemasduitThe King and Queen Pass by on TrainIndian TalkMigration IndianThe Legend of Glooscap’s DoorSune’wit at Kelly’s MountainA Course of Study in SchoolFishing and Treaty RightsPETER BLUE CLOUD / ARIONWENRATEAlcatrazWhen’s the Last Boat to Alcatraz?Ochre IronBearDawnCrazy Horse MonumentYellowjacketSweet CornSandhills That None May VisitCrow’s FlightSearching for EaglesOld FriendsDUKE REDBIRDThe BeaverThe small drumMy moccasinsTobacco BurnsThe Ballad of Norval MorriseauBETH BRANTHer Name Is HelenTellingHonour SongStillborn NightMARIE ANNHARTE BAKERGranny GoingPenumbraMoon BearBird Clan MotherPretty Tough Skin WomanTrapper MotherBoobstretchRaced Out to Write This UpHis KitchenCoyote Columbus CafeTongue in Cheek, if not Tongue in CheckCoyote TrailBear Piss WaterI Want to Dance Wild Indian Black FaceSARAIN STUMPAnd there is my people sleepingIt’s with terror, sometimesLittle traces in my mindI was mixing stars and sandHe goes awaySeven men on the rock upon the houseLike little handsRound DanceWAYNE KEONHeritagenitean opun letr tu bill bissetta kind of majikthe eye of the ravenmoosonee in augustKirkland Lake, Sept. 21eight miles from Esten Lakein this villagefor donald marshallsmoke nd thymei’m not in charge of this ritualif i ever heardSpirit Warrior Raven: Dream Winterthe apocalypse will beginreplanting the heritage treeGORDON WILLIAMSThe Last CrackleLost ChildrenDark CornersThe Day RunsErnieCreased ClinicJustice in Williams LakeJEANNETTE ARMSTRONGIn-Tee-Teigh (King Salmon)Death MummerWind WomanHistory LessonDark ForestsGreenRocksWorld Renewal SongReclaiming EarthApplesRight ItBETH CUTHANDZen IndianSeven Songs for Uncle LouisWere You TherePost-Oka Kinda WomanFor All the Settlers Who Secretly SingThis Red MoonLENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS(a found poem)At SunriseNew ImageHe FightsIn Katherine’s HouseEMMA LaROCQUEIncongruenceCommitmentThe BeggarNostalgiaThe Red In Winter“Progress”The Uniform of the DispossessedMy Hometown Northern Canada South AfricaLong Way From HomeRASUNAH MARSDENFatherCondolences for MariusThree ObjectsKinanti: A FragmentValley of the BelieversWordmakerDancing the RoundsOnYour PassageTossing AroundYellow LeavesSKYROS BRUCE / MAHARA ALLBRETTwhen the outside is completely darkeelsin a letter frommy brother, atlantisin/dianthe mountains are realin memory of fred quilther husband is a film makerFor MenloLinda Louisein the bathFatherLEE MARACLEMy Box of LettersWarPerformingWomenMister MandelaLeonardRazzleberriesAutumn RoseTa’ahLightGEORGE KENNYRubbie at Central ParkPoor J.W.How He ServedDeath BirdI Don’t Know This October StrangerDUNCAN MERCREDImy red face hurtsMorning AwakeningBlues SingerBettyback roadsHe Likes to Dancesomething you saidborn again indiansearching for visionssearching for visions IIdreaming about the end of the worldracing across the landyesterday’s songthe duke of windsorDANIEL DAVID MOSESSong in the Light of DawnA Song of Early SummerOctoberThe Sunbather’s Fear of the MoonTwinkleBallad froma Burned-Out HouseOf Course the Sky Does not CloseCrow Out EarlyThe Persistence of SongsThe LetterThe LineOffhand SongCould Raven HaveWhite Feathers?Cowboy PicturesJOAN CRATEThe Poetry ReadingCan you hear me?GleichenStory tellerI am a ProphetBeaver WomanEmpty SeasDeparturesSentences: at the Culls’She is crying in a cornerUnmarked GraveLOUISE HALFEPahkahkosNohkom, Medicine BearShe Told MeUkrainian HourEatin’ CrittersPicking LeftoversI’m So SorryIn Da Name of Da FadderDer PoopThese are the Body’s Giftsfrom Blue MarrowMARILYN DUMONTThe White JudgesHelen Betty OsborneBlue Ribbon ChildrenLet the Ponies OutHorse-Fly BlueLetter to Sir John A. MacdonaldCircle the WagonsLeather and NaughahydeIt Crosses My MindInstructions to My MotherThe Sky Is PromisingARMAND GARNET RUFFOPoem for Duncan Campbell ScottSomePoetrySurely Not WarriorsGrey Owl, 1935MirrorI Heard Them, I Was ThereAt Geronimo’s GraveNo Man’s LandBearFish TaleRockin’ Chair LadyJOANNE ARNOTTWiles of GirlhoodThe ShardIn My Dance ClassManitoba PastoralProud BellySong AboutMy Grass CradleLike An Indian: Struggling With OgresMigrationProtectionMidLifeBeachhead DreamingCONNIE FIFERonnie, because they never told you whyCommunications classthe revolution of not vanishingThis is not a metaphorStones memoryWe rememberi have become so many mountainsdear waltthe namingJOSEPH DANDURANDThis was One of ThemI Touched the Coyote’s TongueSomeoneFort LangleyOne yearBefore meFeeding the hungryKATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMMstray bullets (oka re/vision)my grandmotherspoem without end #3my secret tongue and earsfrom turtle island to aotearoapartridge songfrozen breath and knife bladeshummingbirdsnight falling womanGREGORY SCOFIELDWhat a Way to GoGod of the Fiddle PlayersCycle (of the black lizard)UnhingedPawâcakinâsîs-pîsim, December • The Frost Exploding MoonPêyak-Nikamowin • One SongT. ForNot All Halfbreed MothersTrue North, Blue Compass HeartI’ve Been ToldRANDY LUNDYmy lodgeritualghost dancean answer to whya reed of red willowAyiki-pisim/the Frog Moon (April)Pawacakinasisi-pisim / The Frost-Exploding Moon (December)stone gatheringdeer-sleepAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, “The New Colossus” (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.Trade Review“Gregory Eiselein has created an important historical-literary context for Emma Lazarus’s writing; this edition will be invaluable in making her work accessible to twenty-first century readers.” — Diane Lichtenstein, Beloit College“Eiselein’s expertly edited and annotated volume is an invaluable contribution to the recovery of lost texts by women writers. With its well-researched notes, historical contextualization, and supplementary materials, this superb edition is certain to become the definitive edition of Lazarus’s works. An impressive achievement!.” — Denise D. Knight, State University of New York, Cortland“This collection provides a rich introduction to this important and under-appreciated American author. It is necessary reading for any scholar of nineteenth-century American poetry, nineteenth-century American woman writers, or the history of Jewish-American writing.” — Marianne Noble, American UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEmma Lazarus: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextsFrom Poems and TranslationsLinksClytieLONG ISLAND SOUNDFrom Admetus and Other PoemsEpochs [I-VII, XVI]In the Jewish Synagogue at NewportHeroesPHANTASIESMOODSTRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANÇOIS COPPÉEARABESQUETHE CRANES OF IBYCUSOFF ROUGH POINTLEDA & THE SWANTHE SOUTHSYMPHONIC STUDIESTHE CREATION OF MANA LETTER, FROM JUDAH HALLEVI TO HIS FRIEND ISAAC CHOPINNIGHT-PIECEDESTINYTHE TAMING OF THE FALCONRASCHI IN PRAGUEASSURANCEECHOESFrom Poems and Ballads of Heinrich HeineMorphineHomeward Bound [LXV]The AsraSongAn Apparition in the SeaQuestionCITY VISIONSPROGRESS AND POVERTYLAURA’S DEATHTRIUMPH OF LOVESongs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and Other Poems The Dance to Death; A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts Songs The New YearThe Crowing of the Red CockIn ExileIn Memoriam—Rev. 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LyonsThe Valley of BacaThe Banner of the JewThe Guardian of the Red Disk A Translation of Heine and Two Imitations Donna ClaraDon PedrilloFra Pedro Translations from the Hebrew Poets of Mediaeval Spain Solomon ben Judah GabirolNight-ThoughtsMeditationsHymnTo a DetractorFragmentStanzasWine and GriefDefianceA Degenerate Age Judah ben Ha-Levi Love-SongSeparationLonging for JerusalemOn the Voyage to Jerusalem IOn the Voyage to Jerusalem IITo the West Wind III Moses ben Esra Extracts from the Book of Tarshish, or “Necklaceof Pearls”In the NightFrom the “Divan”Love Song of Alcharisi AN EPISTLE FROM JOSHUA IBNVIVES OF ALLORQUITHE WORLD’S JUSTICETHE FEAST OF LIGHTSLIFE AND ARTTHE NEW EZEKIELCONSOLATIONTHE NEW COLOSSUS1492CRITIC AND POETTHE CHOICETHE SUPREME SACRIFICETHE BIRTH OF MANTo R.WE.BAR KOCHBATHE VENUS OF THE LOUVREGIFTSADMONITIONBY THE WATERS OF BABYLONA MASQUE OF VENICESelected EssaysRussian Christianity versus Modern JudaismEmerson’s PersonalityAn Epistle to the Hebrews [V, XII]The Jewish ProblemThe Poet HeineA Day in Surrey with William MorrisAppendix A: BiographyJosephine Lazarus, “Emma Lazarus”Appendix B: Selections from the Correspondence From Ralph Waldo Emerson, 14 April 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 June 1868 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19 Nov. 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 22 Nov. 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 Dec. 1874 To Rabbi Gustav Gottheil, 25 Feb. [1877] John Burroughs, to Emma Lazarus, 29 Apr. 1878 To Helena deKay Gilder, 18 Aug. 1879 To Edmund Clarence Stedman, [Summer 1881] To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 14 Jan. 1882 To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 23 Aug. 1882 To Samuel Gray Ward, 12 Oct. 1882 To Philip Cowen, 5 May [1883] To Helena deKay Gilder, 4 July 1883 From James Russell Lowell, 17 Dec. 1883 To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 29 Jan. [1884] Appendix C: Critical Response · 320 The New-York Times The Illustrated London News The New-York Times The Jewish Chronicle Pereira Mendes The American Hebrew The Literary World Solomon Solis-Cohen Edmund Clarence Stedman Appendix D: Cultural Contexts Heinrich Graetz, from Geschichte der Juden [The History of the Jews] George Eliot, from Daniel Deronda From “The Persecution of the Jews in Russia,” The Times Mme. Z. Ragozin, from “Russian Jews and Gentiles. From a Russian Point of View” Samuel S. Cox, from the Congressional Record Abram S. Isaacs, “Will the Jews Return to Palestine?” Telemachus Thomas Timayenis, from The American Jew: An Exposé of His Career Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse at her compositional process. Situated in medieval Spain, in the heat of Moorish-Christian conflicts, this complex political tragedy is both a rich historical narrative and a commentary by the poet on her own post-Napoleonic world.The Broadview edition also includes selections of related poetry, excerpts from source texts, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“Wherever we encounter significant differences between a manuscript and the published version of a work, we are bound to be intrigued, but when they occur with a major drama that seems purposely and powerfully to have been stalemated by its author the result cannot but be fascinating. Presenting these texts with impeccable care, the editors open up the complex debate within Hemans’s radical tragedy of love and honor to a large, modern audience, and its resonances will be heard over and over again in our continuing inquiry into the tensions within British Romanticism.” — Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania“Depicting a city besieged and a family held hostage to a murderous chivalry, The Siege of Valencia is one of Hemans’s most discussed works. This parallel edition shows the Romantic woman playwright at work, her scenes growing more austere, her language more telling. Wolfson and Fay document the full range of conflict and crisis surrounding the work: the tumultuous legend of El Cid, the French invasion of Spain in 1823, Hemans’s own maternal passions, and the literary politics of her critics.” — Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri, St. LouisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFelicia Hemans: A Brief ChronologyEditorial ProceduresThe Siege of Valencia, A Parallel TextAppendix A: Songs of the CidAppendix B: The Chieftain’s SonAppendix C: From Songs of SpainAppendix D: From Poema del CidAppendix E: From Robert Southey’s Chronicle of the CidAppendix F: Letters by Felicia Dorothea Browne (later Hemans), 1808-09Appendix G: Reviews and Receptions The London Literary Gazette, 1823 The Literary Museum, 1823 The British Critic, 1823 The British Review, 1823 New European Magazine, 1823 Monthly Review, 1823 North American Review, 1827 David Macbeth Moir, “Biographical Memoir,”1836 Henry F. Chorley, Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, 1836 William Archer Butler, “Introductory Notice,” 1838 Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England, 1861 W.M. Rossetti, “Prefatory Notice,” 1873; 1878 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSome Assembly Required, Eugene Stickland's lighthearted but deeply moving portrayal of a dysfunctional family at Christmas, was first produced in 1994 at Alberta Theatre Projects; it has enjoyed dozens of productions across North America since then. In 1995, Some Assembly Required was a finalist for the Governor General's Award in Drama. This re-issue incorporates a number of small revisions, and includes a new introduction by the author.Trade Review“An outstanding comedy.” — The Globe and Mail“As entertaining a look at the North American holiday ritual as we are likely to find.” — The Calgary Herald

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Book SynopsisOne of Bernard Shaw's early plays of social protest, Mrs Warren's Profession places the protagonist's decision to become a prostitute in the context of the appalling conditions for working class women in Victorian England. Faced with ill health, poverty, and marital servitude on the one hand, and opportunities for financial independence, dignity, and self-worth on the other, Kitty Warren follows her sister into a successful career in prostitution. Shaw's fierce social criticism in this play is driven not by conventional morality, but by anger at the hypocrisy that allows society to condemn prostitution while condoning the discrimination against women that makes prostitution inevitable.This Broadview edition includes a comprehensive historical and critical introduction; extracts from Shaw's prefaces to the play; Shaw's expurgations of the text; early reviews of the play in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain; and contemporary contextual documents on prostitution, incest, censorship, women's education, and the "New Woman."Trade Review“L.W. Conolly’s edition of Mrs Warren’s Profession will be exceedingly helpful to readers of all sorts—undergraduate students, Shaw specialists, and general readers alike. Insight into Shaw’s play benefits from a knowledge of its various late-19th-century contexts, and this edition includes a wealth of contextual materials, in areas ranging from prostitution to Cambridge University. This thorough, well-researched edition is a major contribution to everyone’s understanding of Shaw’s always-up-to-date dramatic study of prostitution and capitalism.” — Jonathan Wisenthal, University of British Columbia“This edition of Mrs Warren’s Profession, with its astonishing range of associated documents, provides an invaluable resource for students and Shaw enthusiasts, and has a good deal to offer to the seasoned Shaw scholar as well. The introduction offers a wonderfully detailed and informative account of the social, political, and theatrical contexts of Shaw’s first major play, and Conolly’s analysis of the dramatic texture of Mrs Warren’s Profession allows insight into the qualities of the play itself and why, despite the excitement of the early scandals, it has more than historic interest, and lives on today’s stage.” — Jean Chothia, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBernard Shaw: A Brief ChronologyA Note on British CurrencyA Note on the TextMrs Warren’s ProfessionAppendix A: From Shaw’s Prefaces to Plays Unpleasant and Mrs Warren’s Profession From the Preface to Plays Unpleasant (1930) From the Preface to Mrs Warren’s Profession (1930) Appendix B: The Expurgated Text of Mrs Warren’s Profession (1898) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews St James’s Gazette (7 January 1902) J.T. Grein, The Sunday Special (12 January 1902) New York Times (31 October 1905) New York Times (31 October 1905) Manitoba Free Press (1 May 1907) Glasgow News (11 April 1913) Birmingham Gazette (28 July 1925) The Times (29 September 1925) Appendix D: Prostitution in Victorian England From The Unknown Mayhew: Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849-50 From James Miller, Prostitution Considered in Relation to Cause and Cure (1859) From Parliamentary Papers, 1865, XX, Children’s Employment Commission From William Acton, Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects (1870) From Alfred S. Dyer, The European Slave Trade in English Girls (1882) From An Act to Make Further Provision for the Protection of Women and Girls [The Criminal Law Amendment Act] (1890) From General [William] Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) From Clementina Black, Married Women’s Work (1915) Appendix E: Incest From the Old Testament: Leviticus 18. 6-18 From the House of Lords Debate on the Incest Bill (16 July 1903) From the House of Commons Debate on the Incest Bill (26 June 1908) From An Act to Provide for the Punishment of Incest (1908) Appendix F: Censorship of the Stage From An Act for Regulating Theatres, (1843) A Memorandum from the Lord Chamberlain to the Examiner of Plays (1895) “The Censorship of Plays,” The Times (29 October 1907) From the Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons (1909) Appendix G: Vivie Warren’s Cambridge Petitions and Resolutions on Degrees for Women (1896-97) From the Senate Debate on Degrees for Women (March 1897) The May 1897 Riots An Undergraduate at Newnham College (1896-99) Appendix H: The New Woman From Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) From Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review (March 1894) From Alys W. Pearsall Smith, “A Reply from the Daughters,” Nineteenth Century (March 1894) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWalter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth-century discourses of world domination and the exoticism of the East. But at the same time it calls such dreams of mastery into question, repeatedly undercutting as it does Alexander’s claims to heroism and virtue and by extension, similar claims by the great men of Walter’s own generation. This extraordinarily layered and subtle poem stands as a high-water mark of the medieval tradition of Latin narrative literature.Along with David Townsend’s revised translation, this edition provides a rich selection of historical documents, including other writings by Walter of Châtillon, excerpts from other medieval Latin epics, and contemporary accounts of the foreign and “exotic.”Trade Review“In 1996, David Townsend published a very free but also very good verse translation of the Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon, one of the most influential poems of the ‘Twelfth-Century Renaissance.’ This new volume improves upon the earlier translation; it also provides additional materials to shed light on Walter’s other writings, the twelfth-century Latin epic tradition in general, and the medieval Alexander tradition. Townsends elegant and readable English could be used with other translations in a course on medieval epic and romance. It could provide a focal point for students and general readers in understanding the image of Alexander the Great across time. The possibilities are legion.” — Jan. M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University“While the Alexandreis did much to shape the medieval attitude to history, this translation helps to define it.” — The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe AlexandreisAppendix A: Other Works by Walter of Châtillon Satirical and Moral Poems A Treatise Against the Jews (Tractatus contra Judaeos) The Rhythmical Life of Thomas Becket Appendix B: Latin Epic of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Bernard Silvestris, Cosmographia Alan of Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae) John of Hauville, The Arch-Lamenter (Architrenius) Joseph of Exeter, The Ylias of Dares Phrygius Henry of Avranches, The Metrical Life of St. Francis (Vita sancti Francisci) Appendix C: The Medieval Alexander Tradition Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander the Great (Historiae Alexandri Magni) The History of Alexander’s Battles (Historia de preliis) The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Anecdotes of Alexander from John of Salisbury’s Policraticus Appendix D: Twelfth-Century Images of the Foreign, Strange, and Exotic William of Tyre, A History of Things Done in the Territories across the Sea (Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum) Gerald of Wales, The Description of Wales (Descriptio Cambriae) From Wonders of the East (De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus) Select BibliographyIndex of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisHenry James wrote of Lucy Aikin: “Clever, sagacious, shrewd ... and an accomplished writer, one wonders why her vigorous intellectual temperament has not attracted independent notice.” The most important long poem by a woman from the British Romantic era, Aikin’s Epistles on Women (1810) is the first text in English to re-write the entire history of western culture, from the creation story of Genesis through the eighteenth century, from a feminist perspective. Responding to Alexander Pope’s misogynistic “Epistle to a Lady,” Aikin argues that men’s degradation of women has hindered the growth of civilization, and provides historical and literary evidence for her claim that “man cannot degrade woman without degrading himself.”In addition to Epistles on Women, this Broadview Edition also includes a wide selection of poetry, historical writing, fiction, memoir, and literary criticism by Aikin, as well as letters, contemporary reviews, and other feminist historiographies.Trade Review“This excellent edition of Aikin’s first poem, delineating beliefs to which she subscribed her whole life, firmly situates her work between Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘equality feminism’ and Anna Letitia Barbauld’s essentialism. The edition is a must-have for courses in nineteenth-century literature as well as in feminism.” — Laura Mandell, Miami University of Ohio“Lucy Aikin is becoming increasingly recognised as a key figure in religious Dissent and women’s writing of the Romantic period, and the meticulous scholarship of Anne K. Mellor and Michelle Levy makes her work readily accessible for the first time. They provide a superb introduction to Aikin’s broader context and biography; their full annotations and contemporary material will make this book a useful teaching resource. This is also, however, an important piece of research and recovery: a splendid edition that helps us to understand the scope of Aikin’s achievements as poet, historian, biographer, children’s author, and critic.” — Felicity James, University of LeicesterTable of ContentsPlease note that additional selections and appendix materialsfor this edition are available on an auxiliary website, locatedat www.sfu.ca/~mnl/aikin/epistlesonline.pdf/.AcknowledgementsIntroductionLucy Aikin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEpistles on Women and Other Works Poetry Epistles on the Character and Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations.With Miscellaneous Poems (1810) IntroductionEpistle IEpistle IIEpistle IIIEpistle IV From Epistles on the Character and Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations.With Miscellaneous Poems (1810) [ONLINE] “Cambria, an Ode”“Dirge for the Late James Currie, M.D., of Liverpool”“Futurity”“Sonnet to Fortune. From Metastasio”“To Mr. Montgomery. Occasioned by an Illiberal Attack on his Poems”“The Swiss Emigrant”“Midnight Thoughts”“To the Memory of the Late Rev. Gilbert Wakefield”“On Seeing the Sun Shine in at my Window for the First Time in the Year”“On Seeing Blenheim Castle”“Ode to Ludlow Castle”“Necessity” From The Annual Register (1812) [ONLINE] “The Balloon” From Poetry for Children (1801) [ONLINE] “The Beggar Man”“Prince Leeboo” From Mary Ann Humble’s Autograph Album “Written in an Alcove at Allerton” [ONLINE] Histories From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth (1818) From Memoirs of the Court of King James the First (1822) [ONLINE] From Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First (1833) [ONLINE] Fiction From Lorimer:A Tale (1814) Family Memoirs From Memoir of John Aikin, M.D. (1823) From “Memoir of Anna Lætitia Barbauld” (1825) Literary Criticism and Biography Review of William Wordsworth, Poems in Two Volumes (1807) Review of Lord Byron’s Hours of Idleness (1807) Review of The Life of William Roscoe (July 1833) [ONLINE] From The Life of Joseph Addison (1843) [ONLINE] “Recollections of Joanna Baillie” (1864) [ONLINE] Essays From “Words upon Words” (1864) Children’s Literature From Poetry for Children (1801) From “On the Spirit of Aristocracy” (1864) From Juvenile Correspondence (1811) [ONLINE] From Mary Godolphin, Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (1882) [ONLINE] Appendix A: Selected Letters To Mrs.Taylor (July 1806) To Mrs.Taylor (August 1816) To Anna [Letitia] (Aikin) Le Breton (5 July 1824) To Rev. Dr. Channing (28 May 1828) To Anna [Letitia] (Aikin) Le Breton (12 August 1830) To Rev. Dr. Channing (28 June 1831) To Rev. Dr. Channing (6 September 1831) To Rev. Dr. Channing (7 April 1832) To Rev. Dr. Channing (15 October 1832) To Rev. Dr. Channing (14 October 1837) To Rev. Dr. Channing (18 April 1838) Appendix B: Selected Reviews of Epistles on Women European Magazine (July 1811) Monthly Review (April 1811) Belfast Monthly Magazine (August 1810) Poetical Register (1810–11) Critical Review (August 1811) Eclectic Review (November 1810) Henry James, “Review of Correspondence of William Ellery Channing and Lucy Aikin 1826–1842,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1875) Appendix C: Contexts for Epistles on Women From Juvenal, Satires From Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Germania From John Milton, Paradise Lost (1750) [LONGER EXCERPT ONLINE] From Alexander Pope, Epistles to Several Persons, “Epistle II:To a Lady on the Characters of Women” (1735) [LONGER EXCERPT ONLINE] From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) [LONGER EXCERPT ONLINE] From Anna Lætitia Aikin Barbauld, “The Rights of Women” (1825) From Richard Polwhele, The Unsex’d Females, A Poem (1798) Appendix D: Contexts for Aikin’s Feminist Historiography From Catherine Macaulay, Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1791) From Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries(1803) From Elizabeth Benger, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn (1821) From William Alexander, The History of Women, from the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time (1779) Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNeither comedy nor tragedy, The Winter’s Tale contains elements of each genre, and defies easy classification. It experiments, like many of Shakespeare’s late plays, with different styles and tones, and draws on a wide range of sources and inspirations. Full of mysteries and miracles, grief and dark humour, this strange play has fascinated critics and theatregoers for centuries.Theatrical and cinematic productions have tried to capture the range of interpretations and staging possibilities presented by The Winter’s Tale, and the introduction to this edition explores the play’s long histories in performance and in criticism. Illustrations and extended notes interleaved throughout the text discuss the echoes of religious, scientific, and mythological texts found in the play.Trade Review“This superb new edition of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is another excellent entry in the relatively new Broadview/Internet Shakespeare Editions series. Its virtues are many: a beautifully organized introduction; very fine glosses with extremely useful enlarged notes and illustrations; excellent sources; very useful analogues; and a superb bibliography. Hardin Aasand’s is now, for me, the teaching edition; I can’t wait to own it and teach from it.” — Peter Platt, Barnard CollegeTable of ContentsFOREWARDACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONSHAKESPEARE’S LIFESHAKESPEARE’S THEATERWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A BRIEF CHRONOLOGYA NOTE ON THE TEXTABBREVIATIONSTHE WINTER’S TALEAPPENDIX A: SOURCES Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588) From Ovid, Metamorphoses Pygmalion Ceres and Proserpina Callisto APPENDIX B: ANALOGS From James VI of Scotland, Basilikon Doron (1599) From Robert Greene, The Second and Last Part of Coney-Catching and the Third and Last Part of Coney-Catching (1592) From God’s Handi-Work in Wonders (1615) WORKS CITED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

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