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This collection of essays presents an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. Topics addressed include the "historical" Arthur, Arthur in early Welsh verse, the legend of Merlin, and the tales of Culhwch ac Olwen, Geraint, and Owain.

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This critical edition, the first of the entire work, seeks to encourage the study of Caxtons Ovyde, both as an example of the late-medieval mise en prose and as a significant part of Caxtons considerable oeuvre.

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This work of literary criticism explores literature about canals in Britain, from poetry about early industrial waterways in the eighteenth century to 'canal noir' in the twenty-first. Themes include water, climate, gender, Empire, fossils, nature, labour and time.

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An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a wide-ranging discussion of the changing nature, status and ideological concerns of working-class writing.

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The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers" - a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is to Western culture - also relates a tale of two lovers held apart by social strictures. This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad.

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The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers" - a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is to Western culture - also relates a tale of two lovers held apart by social strictures. This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad.

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A bold, first collection by an exciting new poet.

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Glyn Jones is widely regarded as one of the finest prose writers in English that Wales has produced, with particular praise being given to his short stories. In the words of his contemporary Gwyn Jones "He is the author of the loveliest prose of our generation".

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Comprises annotations on more than fifty books and manuscripts (from "Valckenaer" to "Zwick", and "Addenda"). This book includes comments on Wordsworth's "Benjamin the Waggoner," "The Prelude," and "Translation of Virgil's Aeneid," as well as on William Godwins's verse drama "Abbas."

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This third volume in the series completes the known extant correspondence of Richard Price (1732-1791). The letters cover a range of topics including religion, theology, politics, education, liberty, finance, demography and insurance.

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This third volume in the series completes the known extant correspondence of Richard Price (1732-1791). The letters cover a range of topics including religion, theology, politics, education, liberty, finance, demography and insurance.

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This third volume in the series completes the known extant correspondence of Richard Price (1732-1791). The letters cover a range of topics including religion, theology, politics, education, liberty, finance, demography and insurance.

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First published in 1968, this text is a comprehensive study of the English-language literature of Wales, and contains chapters on several of the main writers, including Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Idris Davies.

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"The Passages: Key Moments in History series brings highly accessible introductory histories to students and academics alike, supplemented by a wealth of rich original-source materials. In The East India Company, Ian Barrow elucidates the birth, reign, and death of one of the most formidable commerce companies in the history of the Western world."--Provided by publisher.

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While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgement highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.

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"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique

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Floating Island traces the historical trajectory of a WWII aviation facility town while reflecting on the landscapes fantastical aspects.

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"The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps.

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Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U S Civil War, this title identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981.