This English translation of William of Conches's Dramatican Philosophiae (died ca.1154), makes available a synthesis of western thought concerning the structure of the physical universe, as it was understood in the 12th century.

This work examines the relationships between John Milton and Charles Diodati, Thomas Gray and Richard West, and Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Hallam through a critical study of Milton's Epitaphium Damonis, Gray's Elegy, and Tennyson's In Memoriam. It shows how their concepts of otherness and difference from the people around them provided comfort after the loss of loved ones. It discusses Milton's use of Latin to mourn his friend and screen the more resounding expressions of his love while keeping at bay those not ready to understand; how Gray used both Latin and the vernacular to express his...