Killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 at the age of twenty-four, Mackintosh was unique among World War One poets.
The first true "heroic" drama in England, this 1664 tragedy in a French baroque ramantic novel set among the Aztecs and Incas. With oversize sentiments, settings and derring-do, it is grand opera in heroic couplets.
Kraken does for Dryden what Folger did for Shakespeare. This volume contains a detailed historical preface.
Necrophilic classical polymath Jacob Rabinowitz took a look at biblical texts available in English translation and found them wanting. The Unholy Bible contains his retranslation of the most egregiously Bowdlerized...
If you're a girl, you probably need to read this book. It might prove very useful.