Auteur: Ramie Targoff

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both …

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both …

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne s works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to …

The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the ‘meta …

The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the ‘meta …

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‘An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age’ Telegraph’Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour’ i Paper'[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women’ Tina Brown, New Yo …

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For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven-Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch …