J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for author Nora Roberts, who has created yet another memorable heroine in Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas. This New York Times bestselling author's latest novel deftly blends romantic suspense and futuristic technology to create a unique, unforgettable story.
The Lady of the Lake is the stirring tale of James Fitz-James, the disguised King James V of Scotland; the wrongly exiled yet loyal James of Douglas; his beautiful daughter Ellen, the “Lady” of the title; the fierce yet stalwart Roderick Dhu; and the “rash youth,” Malcolm Graeme. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, this romantic story of love, betrayal, and triumph helped to create an image of Scotland as a land of legend that persists to this very day.
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Symbolism (Art of Century)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In painting, symbolism can be seen as a revival of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition, and was close to the self-consciously morbid and private decadent movement.
Anna Seward and her career defy easy placement into the traditional periods of British literature. Raised to emulate the great poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing in the Age of Sensibility, and publishing during the early Romantic era, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition from classical to Romantic. Claudia Thomas Kairoff’s excellent critical study offers fresh readings of Anna Seward’s most important writings and firmly establishes the poet as a pivotal figure among late-century British writers.
Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature.
