The admirable Yeats Annual . . . a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of Yeats. —Bernard O-Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplemen

Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements — in music, art and particularly li

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An enthralling study on a compelling theme [...] This is a timely book for the uncertain times in which we live. – Peter W. Evans Professor of Languages, Linguistics and Film

This is a rich and engaging work of outstanding scholarship. Scholars in sociolinguistics, literature, and folklore will recognize the importance of the book for their fields. General readers will find it just plain interesting.

Taken both as a whole and individually this collection of essays makes a real contribution to James studies. —Professor Adrian Poole, University of Ca

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