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This book examines the words and structures that emerge from a scrutiny of some well-known works of literature including Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud' and Macbeth. To judge by a scrutiny of his short stories, Somerset Maugham might have been a closet believer.

This book begins by outlining the salient acts of Vlad III, prince of Wallachia, "the Impaler" - alias Dracula and views him in his historical context. From this point of departure the book proceeds with a more general inquiry into the pertinence and relevance of the concept of evil within a broad context that includes a view of the world today.

As the title suggests, not everyone holds "history" in high regard. However, as everybody will become part of history in the long run, it seems advisable to come to terms with it one way or anothe. This book suggests ways in which this might be possible.

The allegory as a literary device is too often dismissed as being artificial and contrived, yet one scholar admits that an allegory arises spontaneously when a writer allows a symbolic traveller make one step towards a symbolic mountain. Therefore the resultant allegory cannot be subject to the writer's full control and conscious powers of prediction and determination. It has a life of its own.

Is a poem really about itself, a form of self-enunciation or a record of the process to which it owes its origin and existence? How far can poems about poems sustain themselves before yielding to some external theme and forgetting themselves? A second section of the book consists of studies of individual poems with a close eye on particular words. These include "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." W...

This books is a collection of stories in prose fiction, dramatic sketches and poetry often with a strong criticism of developments in human affairs

This study takes the "Wanderer, " the word used by Goethe and Romantic poets, as a phenomenon many features of which require hitherto lacking explanations. A promising approach to this issue can be found by applying methods of textual analysis pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure and the Russian Formalists

What role do coincidences play in human destiny, whether with regard to historical events or with strange connections between literature and real occurrences? The issue confronts writers too, whatever their outlook, persuasion or faith. It takes great skill to create characters who appear free to determine the course of their lives if the author has already determined their fate.

Even if we were to discover the historical truth about the origin of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, we still would not explain why its appeal to the imagination of artists and poets has been so extensive and the span of interpretations placed on the figure so divergent. The author of this book believes that the principle of reciprocity must be taken into account and this reflects the duality of the mind with its conscious and subcons...

Normally we consider only one context to establish the sense of a word to which a dictionary applies more than one definition. The reader of poetry can consider many more contexts, such as those supplied by his or her familiarity with other works by the same author and with literary tradition. The theoretical basis of this study resides in an analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between "langue" and "parole" and approaches to textua...

A mixed bag? The expression often connotes that something or other has good and less good aspects. But, as they say, variety is the spice of life. Salads and potpourris can be delicious. Once one of my tutors called a paper I had writtem "a salad." I now take that appraisal as a compliment.

The setting of this play is projected into the near future when we might envisage a global pilot scheme to establish an ideal campus. But what could that be? In German there is a saying "Unter den Talaren ist der Muff von Tausend Jahren." Under the scholar's gown is the stale fluff of a thousand years. Can the new age campus retain the best of ancient tradition and liberate itself from much in that tradition which is in dire need of reform? Th...

The title echoes a line in John Donne's Holy Sonnets. Donne, a man of profound but not unquestioning faith, could contemplate death with greater assurance than many in this secular and materialistic age, yet we can, indeed must, come to terms with death according to whatever attitude, creed or other persuasion we adhere to. The portrait of John Donne is in the public domain in the Google imahe" domain

A motley collection of poems in which the many aspects of love find expression, its anguish and disappointments as well as its joys, its funny side as well as its profound seriousness.

The stories contained in this book are strange, for though they depict the common places and situations known to all we feel that behind the edge of the familiar something or other is lurking, possibly the shadow of death that accompanies us most visibly when the sun is shining. But woe to him who like Peter Schlemihl in Chamisso's classic story loses his shadow and would give anything to have it back,

When confronting the phenomenon of poetic "Wandering" in the age of Goethe and Romanticism we soon find ourselves in the midstl

As though we did not have enough gloom and doom talk already!2016 has not exactly got off to a good start. However, perhaps if we read between the lines, we may detect signs of hope.

This book does not find its starting point in a theory but in the recognition that the word "Wanderer, " and other forms based on the common root of the verbs to "wander" and "wandern, " recur with conspicuous frequency in the writings of Goethe and English Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Lord Byron. A notable scholar, Professor L. A. Willoughby sought an explanation for this phenomnon in Carl G. Jung's theory of the unconscious ...