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Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine (1908-2003)

poet, literary critic, translator, critic

  • University of Cambridge
William Blake
India seen afar
Farewell happy fields
The lion's mouth
Autobiographies
The land unknown
Le royaume inconnu
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Poems
Blake and antiquity
Blake and tradition
Blake and the new age
From Blake to "A vision"
Yeats, the tarot, and the Golden Dawn
Death-in-life and life-in-death
Coleridge
The inner journey of the poet, and other papers
Yeats the initiate
Defending ancient springs
Golgonooza, city of imagination
W.B. Yeats and the learning of the imagination
Collected poems, 1935-1980
The English language and the Indian spirit
On a deserted shore
Hollow Hill
The human face of God
The oracle in the heart, and other poems, 1975-1978
Blake and Antiquity
The presence
Blake And The New Age
Golgonozza City of Imagination
Berkeley, Blake and the New Age
Blake and England
The Oval portrait and other poems
Collected poems
The Oracle in the Heart
Faces of day and night
The inner journey of the poet
The lost country
Defining the Times
Waste land, holy land
Stone and flower
Living with mystery
Hopkins: nature and human nature
Vertical Dimension
What is man?
The pythoness, and other poems
Faces of day and night [by] Kathleen Raine
Visiting Ezra Pound
Six dreams
Cecil Collins
The written word
Six dreams, and other poems
Philip Sherrard, 1922-1995
Aspects de la littérature anglaise, 1918-1945
David Jones, solitary perfectionist by Kathleen Raine
A question of poetry
A lecture on Yeats and the inner world
The pythoness
Isis errante
Sur un rivage désert
The year one
For David Gascoyne
Ninfa revisited
On the mythological
Living in time
David Jones
Poetry in relation to traditional wisdom
William Blake, by Kathleen Raine
David Jones and the actually loved and known
A l ecture on eastern mysticism in Blake and Yeats
Selected poems
Pergamon poets
The lost country
The year one
Defending ancient springs
In the beck
Poetry and prophecy
The underlying order and other essays
What is man?
The English language and the Indian spirit
Three poems written in Ireland, August 1972
The oval portrait
Temenos
The human face of God
William Blake
Coleridge
Blake and tradition
Coleridge
Christian Liger
Christian Liger (1935-2002)

literary critic

Jean Paris
Jean Paris (1921-2003)

academic, translator, literary critic, poet

James Joyce par lui-me me
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Shakespeare par lui-même
L' Annonciation
Hamlet et Panurge
Painting and linguistics
Miroirs de Rembrandt. Le sommeil de Vermeer. Le soleil de Van Gogh. Espaces de Cézanne
La Fuite en Egypte
L' atelier Bellini
Balzac
Lisible/visible
Rabelais au futur
Anthologie de la poésie nouvelle
Open city
Saint Jérôme
El Espacio y la miranda
Un otage
Univers parallèles
Noctuelles ; suivi de Planctus
L' espace et le regard
La Critique générative
שקספיר בראי יצירתו
La Peinture
William Shakespeare in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Connaissance de Shakespeare
L'Italie changée
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, dramaturge
L'espace et le regard
Michel Ragon
Michel Ragon (1924-2020)

art historian, poet, collection manager, editor, art critic, opinion journalist, literary critic

  • University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Sven Stolpe
Sven Stolpe (1905-1996)

linguist, journalist, translator, literary critic

  • Södra Latin
The maid of Orleans
Jeanne d'Arc
Sven Stolpe berättar
Verner von Heidenstam
Mina mästare
Idyll och orosmoln
Geijer
Den svenska romantiken
Selma Lagerlöf ur vår litteraturhistoria
Krigstid
Boken om Birgitta
Änglar och demoner
Kristina
Christina of Sweden
Dag Hammarskjöld
Night music
Sound of a distant horn
Lätt, snabb och öm
Från runsten till ballad
Memoarer
Drottning Kristina
Stormens år
Profeter och diktare
Vadstena
Tål ni höra mer?
Tva generationer
Dikt och samhälle
Spel i kulisser
Flickan från Lothringen
40 svenska författare
Den kristna falangen
I dödens väntrum
Från stoicism till mystik
Dobeln
Myt och verklighet
Låt mig berätta mer
Harry Blomberg
François Mauriac
Själar i brand
Ande och dikt
Låt mig berätta
Dag Hammarskjöld, a spiritual portrait
Fru Birgitta ler
August Strindberg
Döbeln
Olof Lagercrantz
Mitt Värmland
Järnbröderna
I dödens skugga
Student--23
Livsdyrkare
Vasatid och stormaktstid
Christina of Sweden
Geijar
"La tt, snabb och o m-"
Livets löjen
Ungdom
Nikolaj Berdjajev
Birgitta i Sverige och i Rom
Fem nordmaend
Eivind Berggrav
I dödens väntrum
Dag Hammarskjöld, a spiritual portrait
Tre franska författare
Drottning Kristina, den svenska tiden
Klippt och skuret
Sound of a distant horn
Dag Hammarskjölds andliga väg
Sigfrid Siwertz ...
George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury (1845-1933)

literary critic

  • University of Oxford, King's College School
Dryden
A consideration of Thackeray
Marlborough
Sir Walter Scott
George Saintsbury
Jonathan Swift
Dryden
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day
A history of Elizabethan literature
A history of English prose rhythm
The earlier Renaissance
Miscellaneous essays
The flourishing of romance and the rise of allegory
A short history of French literature
The peace of the Augustans
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860
A history of English criticism
Corrected impressions
Prefaces and essays
George Saintsbury : the memorial volume
A history of nineteenth century literature (1780-1895)
Seventeenth century lyrics
Specimens of English prose style
Elizabethan & Jacobean pamphlets
The English novel
Loci critici
A letter book
Political pamphlets ..
Historical manual of English prosody
A first book of English literature
Minor poets of the Caroline period
A history of the French novel (to the close of the 19th century)
Primer of French literature
Notes on a cellar-book
A short history of English literature
Specimens of French literature from Villon to Hugo
Matthew Arnold
Essays on French novelists
A history of nineteenth century literature (1780-1900)
A short history of French literature (from the earliest texts to the close of the nineteenth century)
The historical character of English lyric
Political verse
A history of English prosody from the twelfth century to the present day
The later nineteenth century
The Earl of Derby
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe
Essays on French novelists
A history of English prosody
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day
Some recent studies in English prosody
Collected essays and papers, 1875-1920
A letter book, selected with an introduction on the history and art of letterwriting
The Song of Roland
French lyrics
A history of the French novel
Alexander Pope
The flourishing of Romance and rise of allegory
French lyrics selected and annotated by George Saintsbury
A short history of English literature
A Saintsbury miscellany
French lyrics, selected and annotated by George Saintsbury, with illus. by A. Gérardin
Historical manual of English prosody
A scrap book
French literature and its masters
Shakespeare
The collected essays and papers of George Saintsbury
The collected essays and papers of George Saintsbury, 1875-1920
Alain René Le Sage, 1668-1747
A history of nineteenth century literature, 1780-1900
A second scrap book
A short history of English literature
A history of English criticism, being the English chapters of A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe
A history of Elizabethan literature
The Grouse
The historical novel
The memorial volume
Manchester
Tales of mystery
History of 19th century literature, 1780-1900
Noci critici
The historical character of the English lyric
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860
The English novel
A last vintage
A history of ninetheenth century literature (1780-1900)
A golden book
The Song of Roland
Laurence Sterne
French lyrics selected and annotated by George Saintsbury
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860
Minor poets of the Caroline period ...
French lyrics
A history of European literature
Minor poets of the Caroline period
History of criticism, and literary taste in Europe
Seventeenth century lyrics
A history of Elizabethan literature
The song of Roland
Essays in English literature, 1780-1860. --
Political verse...
Historical manual of English prosody
Dryden
French lyrics
A last scrap book
A short history of French literature (from the earliest texts to the close of the nineteenth century)
Essays in english literature
The English novel
Seventeenth century lyrics
The song of Roland
The historical character of English lyric
A history of English prosody from the twelth century to the present day
A history of English criticism
Seventeenth century lyrics
Political pamphlets ...
The English novel, by George Saintsbury ...
National rhymes of the nursery
A history of the French novel (to the close of the nineteenth century)
The Song of Roland
A short history of English literature
Matthew Arnold
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe form the earliest texts to the present day
Notes on a cellar-book
A short history of French literature
A History of the French novel. ...
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Carl Clinton Van Doren (1885-1950)

literary critic, biographer, journalist

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Columbia University
Benjamin Franklin
Contemporary American novelists, 1900-1920
Swift
Three worlds
Sinclair Lewis, a biographical sketch
An Illinois boyhood
Benjamin Franklin
The great rehearsal
James Branch Cabell
Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs
Carl Van Doren
Many minds
Secret history of the American Revolution
The great rehearsal
Secret history of the American Revolution
American and British literature since 1890
The American novel
American scriptures
Swift
Travel and tourism
Sinclair Lewis
Indian treaties printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762
The life of Thomas Love Peacock
The roving critic
The American novel, 1789-1939
The Cambridge history of American literature
What is American literature?
Sinclair Lewis, a biographical sketch
Modern American prose
The great rehearsal
Jane Mecom
Mutiny in January
What is American literature?
Mark Twain and Bernard Shaw
An anthology of world prose
Some days with Washington
Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards
Other provinces
The Life Of Jonathan Swift
Jane Mecom, the favorite sister of Benjamin Franklin
Youth and wings
Fools of God and doctors of the Church
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
La novela norteamericana, 1789-1939
Carl Van Doren
American literature
An American Omnibus
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Borzoi reader
Contemporary American Novelists
The Cambridge history of American literature
The Borzoi reader
James Branch Cabell
Americana esoterica
The Cambridge history of American literature
Cato's moral distichs
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Borzoi reader
The patriotic anthology
The American novel, 1789-1939
An American omnibus
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
The ninth wave
The Cambridge history of American literature
Mutiny in January
Many minds
The Secret History of America
Swift
James Branch Cabell
Contemporary American novelists 1900-1920
Letters from Carl
What is American literature?
American and British literature since 1890
Secret history of the American Revolution
Swift
Kısa Amerikan edebiyatı tarihi (What is American litterature [!])
The roving critic
The patriotic anthology
American scriptures
The London omnibus
The patriotic anthology
James Branch Cabell
The Cambridge history of American literature
William Butler Yeats as an interpreter of modern life
Modern American prose
James Branch Cabell
Sinclair Lewis
The travels of Baron Munchausen
Three worlds
The Cambridge history of Amrican literature
Benjamin Franklin
An anthology of world prose
William Winter
William Winter (1836-1917)

biographer, literary critic, theatre critic

  • Harvard Law School
Life and art of Joseph Jefferson
Other days
Life and art of Richard Mansfield
Old friends
The life of David Belasco
Edwin Booth in twelve dramatic characters
Henry Irving
Brief chronicles
Tyrone Power
Other days, being chronicles and memories of the stage
Ada Rehan
In memory of John McCullough ...
The life of David Belasco
The American stage of to-day
George William Curtis
The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth
The wallet of time
Shadows of the stage
Vagrant memories
Shakespeare's England
The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth - Volume I
The actor, and other speeches
A wreath of laurel
Thistle-down
Brown heath and blue bells
English rambles
Wanderers
Life and art of Joseph Jefferson, together with some account of his ancestry and of the Jefferson family of actors
The poems of William Winter
The queen's domain
The press and the stage
Ada Rehan, a study
Shakespeare on the state
My witness
The Jeffersons
Old shrines and ivy
Life and art of Edwin Booth
Over the border
Life and art of Richard Mansfield, with selections from his letters
Shakespeare on the stage
The winner
Poems
Shakespeare on the stage. 2d series
Gray days and gold
A sketch of the life of John Gilbert
Gray days and gold in England and Scotland
The trip to England
The queen's domain, and other poems
The stage life of Mary Anderson
Humpty Dumpty
Shakespeare on the stage; third series
The emotion of sympathy
Shadows of the stage
Vagrant memories, being further recollections of other days
Shakespeare on the stage; second series
Henry Irving
Shakespeare's England
The emotion of sympathy
The trip to England
Mary of Magdala
The library of the late William Winter
Shakespeare's England
Shakespeare's England (Notable American Authors)
The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth - Volume II
Ada Rehan
William Winter correspondence
Gray days and gold
The Jeffersons
Wanderers
Shakespeare on the Stage
Wanderers ...
The wallet of time
Brown heath and blue bells
Wanderers
Gray days and gold in England and Scotland
William Winter's serious parody of Walt Whitman
Shakespeare on the state
Old shrines and ivy