Catullus Reading his Poems at Lesbia's House (detail), an 1870 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Bridgeman The heart of the reviewer can sink upon receiving a doorstop titled something like The ...

From Jean de Meun in the late thirteenth century to Christine dePizan in the early fifteenth, medieval French poets often aimed toimpart theological, philosophical, or moral ideas. To unify ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The connection between poetry and natural science has a long tradition in the genre of the didactic poem. It has become evident that the ...

WHETHER we are to regard history as an analysis of tendencies or as a biography of individuals is ultimately a question, not of absolute truth and falsehood, but of relative temperament. If the ...