Our books A People’s Voice We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.
Our books On Burns Night Read now author M. J. Grant's thoughts on 'Auld Lang Syne', Robert Burns, and Burns Night.
August Wilhelm Schlegel Writing the Life of Schlegel My approach to this biography [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0069] of Schlegel came from an unexpected quarter. I had already written a biography of Ludwig Tieck, Schlegel’s old friend, (1985) and had completed a study of Shakespeare’s reception in Germany (2003), but had not contemplated any
