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Martin Seymour-Smith
Martin Seymour-Smith (1928-1998)

poet, literary critic, astrologer

  • Highgate School
Hardy
Robert Graves
Robert Graves, his life and work
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Graves
Joseph Conrad
Novels and novelists
Who's who in twentieth-century literature
The 100 most influential books ever written
The new guide to modern world literature
Macmillan guide to modern world literature
A reader's guide to fifty European novels
Funk & Wagnalls Guide to modern world literature
Gnosticism
Fallen women
Sex and society
Funk and Wagnalls guide to modern world literature
Novels and Novelists
Poets through their letters
Dictionary of fictional characters
Tea with Miss Stockport
Shakespeare's Non-dramatic Poetry
Reminiscences of Norma: poems, 1963-1970
Novels and novelists
Poets through their letters
Poets through their letters
Dictionary of fictional characters
Guide to modern world literature
World authors, 1900-1950
Longer Elizabethan poems
From Bed to Verse
A cupful of tears
The new astrologer
An introduction to fifty European novels
Wilderness
The new astrologer
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The sexual meaning of Shakespeare's sonnets
Martin Seymour Smith
Who's who in twentieth century literature
Tea with Miss Stockport
All devils fading
An introduction to fifty European novels
Collected poems 1943-1993
The English Sermon
Bluff Your Way in Literature
Longer Elizabethan poems
Longer Elizabethan poems
Enver Kazaz
Enver Kazaz (born 1962)

literary historian, literary critic, literary theorist, slavist, literary scholar, opinion journalist, man of letters

  • University of Sarajevo, University of Belgrade
Ivan Lovrenović djelo
Bošnjački roman XX vijeka
Neprijatelj ili susjed u kući
Subverzivne poetike
Glasovi
Neko drugi
Antologija bosanskohercegovačke pripovjetke XX vjeka
Kuća i drugi elementi
Čitanje razlika
Pjesništvo i rat
Jezik negativne ontologije
Rat i priče iz cijelog svijeta
Na razvalinama
Fraktali i različite pjesme
Traži se
Edwin Percy Whipple
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886)

literary critic, journalist

Recollections Of Eminent Men With Other Papers
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, the man and his work
Essays and reviews
Lectures on subjects connected with literature and life
The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature
Character and characteristic men
The literature of the age of Elizabeth
American literature and other papers
Washington and the principles of the revolution
Success and its conditions
The Johnson party
Some recollections of Rufus Choate
Eulogy on John Albion Andrew
Christianity and Humanity: A Series of Sermons
Outlooks on society, literature and politics
The Writings of Charles Dickens. With Critical and Bibliographical Introductions and Notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and Others; Illustrated With Steel ... Cruikshank, Leech, and Others Volume 18
Literature And Life
THE GREAT SPEECHES AND ORATIONS OF DANIEL WEBSTER. With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edward P. Whipple.
Eulogy on John Albion Andrew, delivered by Edwin P. Whipple
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays. By Lord Macaulay. With a Memoir and Index Volume 5
Washington and the Principles of the Revolution
Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
Character and characteristic men
Literature and life
Success and its conditions
Christianity and Humanity: A Series of Sermons
Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010)

poet, politician, translator, literary critic, playwright, critic

  • University of Turin
Carol Rama
Genova per me
Ideologia e linguaggio
Atlante del Novecento italiano
Colloquio con Edoardo Sanguineti
Sanguineti/ Novecento
Faust
Sanguineti's song
Natural Stories # 1
Libretto
Il gatto lupesco
Natural stories #1
Cose
Libretto
Schede gramsciane
Sei personaggi.com
Corollario
L' amore delle tre melarance
Commedia dell'Inferno
Mikrokosmos
Sei personaggi.com
Wirrwarr
Il mio amore è come una febbre e mi rovescio
Per Edoardo Sanguineti
Il chierico organico
Capriccio italiano
Commedia dell'Inferno
Scribilli
La missione del critico
Senzatitolo
Poesia del Novecento
Sonetti della scuola siciliana
Bisbidis
Cose
Ritratto del Novecento
Guido Gozzano
Opere e introduzione critica
Catamerone
Triperuno
Lettura del Decameron
Le noble jeu de l'oye
Segnalibro
Il Canto XIX del Paradiso
Poesia italiana del Novecento
Stracciafoglio (1977-1979). Fuori catalogo (1957-1979)
Cultura e realtà
Tra liberty e crepuscolarismo
Il giuoco del Satyricon
Orlando furioso..
Gazzettini
Alberto Moravia
Storie naturali
Il realismo di Dante
Smorfie
Estudios sobre Moravia
Tre studi danteschi
Dante reazionario
K. e altre cose
Per musica
Ghirigori
Stracciafoglio
Giornalino, 1973-1975
Novissimum testamentum
Giornalino secondo 1976-1977
Il giuoco dell'oca
Verdi in technicolor
Postkarten, 1972-1977
Teatro
L' amore delle tre melarance
Poeti e poetiche del primo Novecento
Catamerone. 1951-1971
EdoardoSanguineti
Interpretazione di malebolge
Conversazioni musicali
La Valle d'Aosta
Antonio Davide
Capriccio italiano
Liguria
Liguria
Triperuno
Antoni Słonimski
Antoni Słonimski (1895-1976)

poet, journalist, literary critic, painter, playwright, opinion journalist

  • Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
Wspomnienia warszawskie
Kroniki tygodniowe, 1927-1939
Alfabet wspomnień
Ciekawość
Moja podróż do Rosji
Kroniki londyńskie
Kroniki tygodniowe 1936-1939
Dwa końce świata
Gwałt na Melpomenie
Kroniki tygodniowe
Kroniki tygodniowe 1927-1931
Załatwione odmownie
Antoni Słonimski
Młodość górna
Poezje
Alarm
Jawa i mrzonka
Zalatwiono odmownie
Literatura na emigracji
Moja podróż do Rosji [microform]
Wiersze
Popiół i wiatr
Wieża Babel
Rozmowa z gwiazdą
Torpeda czasu
Sto trzydzieści osiem wierszy
Moja podroż do Rosji
Nowe wiersze
Wiersze, 1958-1963
Wybór poezji
Obecność
W oparach absurdu
Artykuły pierwszej potrzeby
Jedna strona medalu
Młodość górna, wiek klęski, wiek męski
Torpeda czasu
Mętne łby
Droga na Wschód i inne wiersze
138 wierszy
Szopki 1922-1931 Pikadora i Cyrulika Warszawskiego
Załatwione odmownie
William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919)

poet, literary critic, journalist

  • King's College School
Præraphaelite diaries and letters
The diary of W. M. Rossetti 1870-1873
Praeraphaelite diaries and letters
Some reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti
Life of John Keats
Diary of Dr John William Polidori 1816
Lives of famous poets
A memoir of Shelley
Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley (with a fresh preface)
Some Reminiscences 2 Volume Set
Some Reminiscences
A memoir of Shelly (with a fresh preface)
The Pre-Raphaelites & their world
Selected letters of William Michael Rossetti
Swinburne's Poems and Ballads: A Criticism
Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism
A Memoir of Shelley: With a Fresh Preface
Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary: Notices Re-printed, with Revisions
Dante and his Convito
Bibliography of the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The P.R.B. journal
American poems
Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism: papers 1854 to 1862 arranged and edited by William Michael Rossetti .. with illustrations
Some reminiscences
American poetry
Dante Gabriel Rossetti As Designer and Writer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti as designer and writer
Rossetti papers, 1862-1870
Shelley's Prometheus unbound, a study of its meaning and personages
Shelley's Prometheus unbound
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
English painters of the present day: essays by J. Beavington Atkinson, Sidney Colvin, P.G. Hamerton, W.M. Rossetti, and Tom Taylor; with twelve photographs, after original drawings
Life of John Keats
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Fine art, chiefly contemporary: notices re-printed
Humorous poems
Notes on the Royal Academy exhibition, 1868
The Germ. Thoughts Towards Nature in Poetry, Literature And Art
Italian courtesy-books
Poetical Works
The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
Rossetti Papers, 1862-1870;
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Volume 1
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Volume 2
Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism; Papers 1854 to 1862
Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley (with new preface)
Ruskin
Fine Art Chiefly Contemporary
Political, Religious, and Love Poems
Fine art
Swinburne's Poems and Ballads
Gabriel Rossetti
Poems of the Fancy. -Poems of the Imagination. -Peter Bell. -Miscellaneous Sonnets
GABRIELE ROSSETTI a versified autobiography
Life and writings of John Keats
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Letters of William Michael Rossetti concerning Whitman, Blake, and Shelley to Anne Gilchrist and her son Herbert Gilchrist; with appendices containing a letter to President Cleveland and an uncollected Whitman circular
Letters of William Michael Rossetti concerning Whitman, Blake, and Shelley to Anne Gilchrist and her son Gilbert Gilchrist ..
The Pre-Raphaelites and their world: a personal view
Memoir Of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetical Works; Edited, with a Critical Memoir by William Michael Rossetti
A memoir of Shelley (with a fresh preface)
Rossetti papers, 1862 to 1870
Letters from William Michael Rossetti concerning Whitman, Blake, and Shelley, to Anne Gilchrist and her son, Herbert Gilchrist
Diary, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc. Edited and Elucidated by William Michael Rossetti
Letters of William Michael Rossetti
The Pre-Raphaelites and their world
Some Reminiscences
Collected Works. Edited With Pref. and Notes by William M. Rossetti Volume 1
Præraphaelite Diaries and Letters
Life of John Keats
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Fine art, chiefly contemporary
Gabriele Rossetti
Taurello Salinguerra
Letters of William Michael Rossetti concerning Whitman, Blake and Shelley, to Anne Gilchrist and her son Herbert Gilchrist
Democratic Sonnets
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 2 Volume Set
Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti
Life of William Blake Set
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Rossetti Papers 1862-1870
Letters concerning Whitman Blake, and Shelley, to Anne Gilchrist and her son
Preraphaelite Diaries and Letters
Swinburne's Poems and ballads
The Poetical Works of William Blake: Lyrical and Miscellaneous
New Poems by Christina Rossetti
The Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Collected Works. Edited With Pref. and Notes by William M. Rossetti
Swinburne's poems and ballads, a criticism
Works
The family letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
Preraphaelite diaries and letters
American poems
Ricordi
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound considered as a poem
The Germ
Programmes
letters of  William Michael Rossetti
Humorous poems
Praeraphaelite diaries and letters
American poems
Democratic sonnets
The Germ
The Germ
Rossetti Papers
Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism
The Germ
Some scraps of verse and prose by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
American poems
A memoir of Shelley
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

linguist, poet, politician, translator, journalist, literary critic, biographer

  • Edinburgh College of Art, Langholm Academy
Lucky poet
Correspondence
Scottish eccentrics [by] Hugh MacDiarmid
A drunk man looks at the thistle
Poems
Northern numbers
Contemporary Scottish studies
Raucle Tongue
Aesthetics in Scotland
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology: poems in Scots and English
Albyn
New selected letters
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
The thistle rises
The terrible crystal
Hugh Macdiarmid
Contemporary Scottish studies
The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Annals of the five senses and other stories, sketches, and plays
The revolutionary art of the future
Sangschaw
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The Hugh MacDiarmid-George Ogilvie letters
The ugly birds without wings
The company I've kept
In memoriam James Joyce
Albyn: Shorter Books and Monographs (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Three hymns to Lenin
More collected poems
Selected prose
Living Scottish poets
Lucky Poet (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Raucle Tongue: Volume 2 (Lives & Letters: Macdiarmid 2000)
Hugh MacDiarmid Selected Poems
A Clyack-Sheaf
What's wrong with the "Songs of the Hebrides"
The complete poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish garden
Scots unbound and other poems
Sorabji symposium
Poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid, and a pibroch on his 80th birthday
When an old man dies the commonest cliche of his obituarists is: "We will not see his like again"
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] (C. M. Grieve)
The future of Scots poetry
Glasgow 1960
Virgilium vidi tantum
Stony limits and Scots unbound
Neil Gun and Scottish renaissance
An afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid
Miracle in Edinburgh
The correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean
Song of the seraphim
Lucky Poet
A lap of honour
The Oxford book of Scottish verse chosen by John MacQueen and Tom Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones
Song of the seraphim
More collected poems
The islands of Scotland
A vision of Scotland
Scotland - vive la difference
Direadh I, II and III
On the asportation of the Scone stone
The great McGonagall
Second hymn to Lenin
John Knox
Exports of pottery from the United Kingdom, 1948-1968
David Hume
Metaphysics and poetry
Selected poems
The fire of the spirit
Poems to paintings by William Johnstone, 1933
Introduction [to an exhibition of the work of William McCance]
In the Shetland Islands
Poetry like the hawthorn
A political speech
The poetry of Norman MacCaig
Mayakovskii
Great malt whiskies
The man of (almost) independent mind
The significance of R.E. Muirhead
Sydney Goodsir Smith
The lucky bag
John Montague's Ulster
" And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul"
Cunninghame Graham
Tribute to Harry Miller
A lap of honour
The islands of Scotland: Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands
Separatism
Scottish universal
The master-voyager of our age
Scottish arts and letters
Burns today and tomorrow
Cranks never make good democrats
A note on some foreign translations of Burns
The ugly birds without wings
When the birds come back to Rhiannon
Speaking for Scotland
Poetry like the hawthorn
To circumjack Cencrastus
Selected poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid
Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
On a raised beach
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The eemis stane
The breckanry
Two poems by Hugh MacDiarmid
Whuchulls
An apprentice angel
With the herring fishers
The battle continues
First hymn to Lenin, and other poems
ha-Barḳan ṿeha-gaviʻa
On a raised beach
The blaward and the skelly
Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid & Norman MacCaig
O wha's been here afore me, lass
At the sign of the thistle
In talk with Donnchadh bàn Mac an T'saoir
At my father's grave
Selected poems of Hugh Macdiarmid
First hymn to Lenin
When the rat-race is over
Edinburgh's smoky scene
Penny wheep
Selected poems
A kist of whistles
A herd of does
Six vituperative verses
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn
The MacDiarmids
To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The curly snake
Selected poems
To those of my old school who fell in the Second World War
Selected lyrics
The fall of France
Contemporary Scottish studies
The uncanny Scot
The bonnie broukit bairn
The Age of MacDiarmid
David Hume
Speaking for Scotland
Hugh Macdiarmid, selected lyrics
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Collected poems
Direadh
O wha's been here afore me lass?
The kind of poetry I want
Stony limits and other poems
Vouchsafed, a sign
Aesthetics in Scotland
Annals of the five senses
Cornish Heroic Song to Valda Trevlyn
Five pieces of Miller
The uncanny Scot
Francis George Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid, reading in Scots and English, Thursday evening, May 4, 1967 at 8:30pm [at] The 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, New York City [with] introductory comments by M.L. Rosenthal and Norman MacCaig
Suijin azami o miru
Twenty poems by Hugh MacDiarmid with twenty lithographs by William Johnstone
Montrose
Francis George Scott
The MacDiarmids
Poems addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, and presented to him on his seventy-fifth birthday by John M. Bett [and others]
Two memories
Second hymn to Lenin
Complete poems
Cunninghame Graham
The ministry of water
The burning passion
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve)
Poet at play, and other poems
Early lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
A lap of honour
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut (1825-1895)

literary critic, translator

  • Paris Law Faculty
Nos morts contemporains
Nos morts contemporains
Mélanges critiques
Le maréchal Davout: son caractère et son génie. La duchesse et le duc de ..
Écrivains modernes de l'Angleterre
Essais sur la littérature anglaise
Poètes et artistes de l'Italie
Livres et âmes des pays d'Orient
Dramaturges et romanciers
Types littéraires et fantaisies esthétique
Esquisses littéraires
Les Pays-Bas
Dramaturges et romanciers
Mélanges critiques
Écrivains modernes de l'Angleterre
Types littéraires et fantaisies esthétiques
Écrivains modernes de l'Angleterre
Libres opinions morales et historiques
Ecrivains modernes de l'Angleterre: Premie?re se?rie
Écrivains modernes de l'Angleterre: Troisième série
Marguerite Fuller
Nos morts contemporains ..
Poètes et artistes de l\'Italie
John Mitchel : a study of Irish nationalism
Laurence Sterne
L' Angleterre et ses colonies Australes -
Poètes et artistes de l'Italie
Les Pays-Bas
Damaturges Et Romanciers..
Les Conflits des races aux États-Unis
Eugène Fromentin Écrivain
Les Pays-Bas
Mélanges critiques
Écrivains modernes de l'Angleterre
Le maréchal Davout
Poètes et artistes de l'Italie
Dramaturges et romanciers
John Mitchell
La Question de l’Esclavage et la vie des esclaves aux États-Unis
Livres et âmes des pays d'Orient.