Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), known in the English-speaking world simply as Petrarch, was a 14th-century Italian scholar and poet who was one of the first to use Italian as a literary language. One of his close friends was Boccaccio, another pioneer in literary composition in Italian....

This book is a collection of ancient and classical legends involving islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It includes Socrates's discussion of Atlantis, the classical Irish tales of Oisin, the British stories of Arthur, and the tale of Ponce de Leon....

A fascinating account by an eyewitness of the formation and heroic deeds of the first black regiment in the civil war....