Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.

Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.

A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz… (Show full summary)

Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems. Includes two short essays on poetry. 1985.

Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still… (Show full summary)

Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley’s first book of poems is a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various… (Show full summary)

A collection of rhyming poems set in such places as Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon. These funny verses are… (Show full summary)

In this collection of poems, the author asks: is our world really what it appears to be? How do we… (Show full summary)

This poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgement seat of God. First published in 1865, 2009.

This collection of Davies' non-fiction writing, culled from four decades of dialogues, diaries and sketches, gives his views of people, literature, and himself. 1979.

Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with… (Show full summary)

A sustained, confessional new collection of poems that tells the story of Crosbie's father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness,… (Show full summary)

Crafted as a long poem, a libretto for stage presentations, this book is less about Clarence Thomas than it is… (Show full summary)

Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve… (Show full summary)

A collection of fifty poems, ranging in subject from the personal to the political. They investigate the mysterious writing of… (Show full summary)

Examines the concepts of secular nationalism and modernity as conceived by Arab intellectuals of Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. Provides… (Show full summary)

Stories and poems of adventure, bravery, friendship and discovery, taken from the lives of Canadian children of many different ethnic backgrounds. Grades 4-7. 1981.

Scott was a historian and lawyer, but foremost a poet. This collection, which was organized by Scott himself, shows both… (Show full summary)

William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve, and by the time he was… (Show full summary)

Collected works of the quintessential Romantic poet, who died of tuberculosis in 1821 at age twenty-six. Includes poems such as… (Show full summary)