David Bromwich

Spanning many historical and literary contexts, this book brings together a dozen essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. It explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice. Meer

The author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Meer

The poems that are written about, in the essays found in this book, all stake a definitive claim for the modernist style and its intent to capture an audience beyond the present moment. Meer

This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. Meer