No study of Goethe's early lyric poetry has been published in English in the last fifty years. But the reading of this poetry the author presents is not intende

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If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you’re unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with w

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brin

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