Focusing on the period from about 1690 to 1890, these essays depict an age of sensibility that was in transformation.

Analyzes Blake's major works of composite art, discussing the interrelationships of his words, designs and borders

This book focuses on the idea of love, in all its aspects, from the Restoration to the period of Romanticism.

Various forms of relationship, such as friendship or lust alone; marriage for political ends; liaisons with the same sex; the presence of passion in religious commitment; even conflict followed by pacification to achieve "peace in the ...