David Mills 
Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind 
Volume Xi

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This …

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet …

Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings togetherthe experiences of those intervening years in a stunning newcollection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay”s work, we …

This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment …

Late studies in the Psychology of Sex have led to some interesting speculations with regard to the poet Shelley; and it is with pleasure that I write a few lines by way of introduction to the …

Jalaloddin Rumi”s Masnavi-ye Ma”navi, or ”Spiritual Couplets”, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his …

A collection of poems that the author wrote years ago and had intended to forget about, this volume neatly answers the question of who Errol Stephen Philip Flynn was, without giving any clear …

Representing the best of ten books and twenty years” work, Matthew Sweeney”s Selected Poems is a magical mystery tour into his strange, unsettling world. Readers familiar with his poetry will be …

”I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.” Fired by his abiding love of the E …