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Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhe...
Essays
Compelling essays from one of today's most esteemed cultural critics Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together...
From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it em...
Essays on Modern Poetry
Skeptical Music collects the essays on poetry that have made David Bromwich one of the most widely admired critics now writing. Both readers familiar ...
Higher Education and Group Thinking
Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that f...
Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost
For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative em...
The Turn of the Screw is a fireside tale of evil and mystery. Filled with extraordinary drama, Henry James' story has been widely popular ever since i...
The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for ...
Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s
PrefaceIntroduction 1: Alienation and Belonging to Humanity 2: Political Justice in The Borderers 3: The French Revolution and "Tintern Abbey" 4: Mora...
The Mind of a Critic
Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the art of prose. This bo...
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictato...
(American Poets Project #25)
A tribute to the traditional verse form compiles 180 varied works by approximately 120 poets including Longfellow, Poe, and Frost, in a volume that of...
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volu...
John Keats began writing at the age of 18, and by the time he died, seven years later in 1821, he had produced a substantial number of poems. This col...
An Anthology
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