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A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws’s long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism.   Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and examined in depth the most intriguin... Read More about Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws

The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long-underappreciated—and now quickly burgeoning—poetic tradition.For decades, the prose poem has variously delighted, confounded, and incensed readers and critics. Until recent ... Read More about The French Prose Poem: An Anthology

Mad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it ... Read More about Mad Love (French Modernist Library)

This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volu... Read More about Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and es... Read More about Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings: Selected Writings

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and es... Read More about Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings