Product Description: Reflecting on the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom in higher education and in life, this thoughtful treatise considers the roots and philosophical underpinnings of university education. Examining such subjects as philosophy, science, nature, art, religion, and finding one’s place in the world, Peter Milward shares his sage thoughts on obtaining a well-rounded base of knowledge...read more

Product Description: Every science, including the study of insects, may have circumscribed limits, but its deeper principles open up new worlds of possibility. Milward uncovers these hidden principles by examining the daily lives and habits of insects...read more

Product Description: To know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together or what T. S. Eliot calls "the pattern in his carpet".

Product Description: The eminent Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward, S.J. here presents an analysis of Shakespeare’s late plays that is both accessible to beginners and beneficial to seasoned scholars.

Product Description: The aspirations that professors have for their students are critiqued in this analysis of modern universities. Noting the deterioration in the quality of a college education, it is argued that the universal ideal of wisdom has, in recent decades, been sacrificed for the mere acquisition of knowledge...read more

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Product Description: The local tradition in Stratford is that Shakespeare "died a Papist," having sent for a Catholic priest to give him the last rites. It is clear from his plays that he was against the strictures of Puritanism, but in The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays, Professor Peter Milward argues that the whole of Shakespeare's work reveals a common thread of sympathy with the plight of the suffering persecuted Catholics under Queen Elizabeth and King James I...read more

Product Description: First published in 1969, Milward's "A Commentary On The Sonnets Of G.M. Hopkins" has-become a classic of Hopkins criticism. In the tradition of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton, Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote a series of acclaimed metaphysical and religious, personal and descriptive sonnets from 1877 until his death in 1889...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Build a three dimensional model of your favorite historical landmark! Children can enjoy exploring their curiosity and imagination while training their logical thinking, motor and problem solving skills. Assembly is easy just punch the pieces out of the foam, connect the slots and tabs together...read more

Product Description: The aim of this encyclopedia is to survey the fauna and flora of England and America not from the viewpoint of zoological or botanical science but of literature. Given the excessive broadness of the endeavour, this is done in a personally selective manner, with preferences toward English over American, and poetry over prose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays covers such topics as: Shakespeare's medieval inheritance; the Homiletic tradition in "Hamlet"; and a theology of grace in the "Winter's Tale".