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This volume of previously unpublished and uncited letters presents a remarkable, often moving, and extraordinary image of the Coleridge family during Samuel Taylor Coleridge's youth, particularly between 1772 and 1793, when the writer reached twenty-one. Revealing the strength of a family suffering repeated losses, James Engell's edition offers a new, frank, yet sympathetic account of Coleridge's life and the formation of his character.

Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, "Johnson and His Age" includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. A section on Johnson's life and thought presents fresh analyses of Johnson's friendships with Mrs. Thrale and George Steevens, new information on Johnson's relations with Smollett and Thomas Hollis, a speculative essay on "Johnson and the Meaning of Life, " an...

The variety of contributions in this volume testifies to the direct engagement of literature in both the social and the individual life that we find in Johnson and his contemporaries. Together these essays bring into focus intellectual, emotional, and moral issues.

This beautiful volume presents an entirely new illustrated edition of The Prelude, the most resonant poem of the entire Romantic Era and one of the most admired works in English literature. The poem is illuminated with explanatory notes and glosses, paintings by great artists, a critical Introduction, a Chronology, Bibliography, and colour maps.

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Since 1965 an increasing preoccupation with money has resulted in the inversion of its role in higher education, from a practical means to an end that crowds out all others. No longer do students and parents choose the best education that "money can buy." Instead, they are faced with choosing which college or university will "buy them more money." This comes as no real surprise, as the cost of attending a four-year college has doubled since 19...

James Engellhas prepared the first broad treatment of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century British criticism to appear in a generation, presenting the views of scores of writers on a variety of questions, many of which remain live issues today. While offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engelldemonstrates that eighteenth-century criticism cannot be represented by just a few major critics or by generalizations about Au...

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