Cummings and Josipovici (English, U. of Sussex, UK) collect 14 previously published essays by literature scholar Stephen Medcalf (1936-2007). In the essays, Medcalf discusses a variety of
topics: Virgil, the Bible, the English translation of Alfred, Piers Plowman, the "half-alien" creature of the Middle Ages, Chaucer's contemporary Thomas Usk, Shakespeare's images of
resurrection, Horace and Kipling, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot's use of Ovid, P.G. Wodehouse, William Golding, John Betjeman, Geoffrey Hill, and other writers. Distributed in North America by
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