Author and literary scholar Helen Wilcox reveals the stunning range of texts that emerged in 1611, from the publication of the King James Bible and George Chapman's new translation of Homer to the first printed works of poet John Donne and ...

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.

Stories of a pioneer adventure, adversity and endurance, family values and love in the 1900s.

A selection of one hundred poems by George Herbert, one of the greatest devotional poets in the English language.

During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives.