Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…
In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …
Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…
In Muse and Mint
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…
In The Book of the Ocean
The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such a…
