Here, in this book, is a presentation of Keats's story: an account with pictures and in detail of his years as a medical student, his gift for friendship, his care for his brothers, and particularly for Tom whose death from tuberculosis preceded Keats's own, his walking tour to the English Lake District and into Scotland, his love, desperate, ecstatic and cut off by illness, and above all, his total and passionate commitment to poetry. Keats lived poetry: the reading of it, the writing of it. The Wordsworth Trust here places Keats's achievement within its cultural context with a special...

What sets Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein" apart from so many other famous works of fiction? What special combination of creativity and vision made possible the drafting of Magna Cartaa document both so unprecedented and so fundamental to the concept of basic human rights that its name can now be used to define the many declarations that came after it. When describing exceptional accomplishments like theseand the men and women behind themwe use the word genius. And while genius is difficult to define, we all recognize that elusive, special quality when we encounter it.
"Marks of Genius "pays...

The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Britain. Named for the physician John Radcliffe who directed a large part of his fortune to its realization at the heart of the University of Oxford in the early eighteenth century the circular library is instantly recognizable, its great dome rising amidst the gothic spires of the university.
Drawing on maps, plans, photographs, and drawings, "Dr Radcliffe s Library" tells the fascinating story of the building s creation over more than thirty years. Early designs for the Radcliffe Camera were drawn by the brilliant...