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Edward Thomas (1878 1917) was perhaps the most accomplished of the English poets who died in the 1914 18 war. Much of his poetry was written in the three years leading up to his death. He saw himself as an 'isolated, self-considering brain', seeking to 'reopen the connection' between himself and the world. The author shows this reconnection taking place in his poetry and to some extent in his imaginative prose. On the one hand there is the solitary melancholic immured in the prison of his 'self-consciousness', whose awareness of lost connections in his personal life extended to a general...

Long celebrated as one of the Three Crowns of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of essays presents Boccaccio s life and creative output in its encyclopedic diversity. Exploring a variety of genres, Latin as well as Italian, it provides short descriptions of all his works, situates them...