Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.

Product Description: Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh", Clough's "Amours de Voyage", and Browning's "The Ring and the Book", Clinton Machann brings to bear the ideas and methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the central issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic...read more

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Product Description: Texas A&M University Press has released a paperback edition of Czech Voices: Stories from Texas in the Amerikán národní kalendá. Originally published in 1991, Czech Voices comprises ten short memoir-essays written by some of the earliest Czech immigrants to Texas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Essays discuss Porter's early life in Texas, her major writings, and influences on her work

Product Description: Because 1988 markes the centenary of Arnold's death, it is particularly appropriate to reevaluate his works and his overall influence on literature and culture in the English-speaking world. This collection of fourteen essays, written by fifteen well-known Arnoldian scholars and critis, examines several of the major issues in Arnold Scholarship today...read more

Product Description: Krasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in a scholarly yet lively manner. The book tells the story of early Czech settlements in Texas; about the persistence of the Czech language in subsequent generations; the folklore, music, festivals, Czech cooking and much more...read more