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William Worcester's treatise The Boke of Noblesse offers a unique record of military history and political thought in England in the fifteenth century. This new edition draws on the copious surviving records of Worcester's life, reading, and handwritten revisions, which give a unique insight into a medieval author and his work.

This book seeks to isolate the special factors that generate Wordsworth's greatness as a poet, qualifying the social and political bias of recent New Historicist criticism of Wordsworth by stressing the poetic primacy of the personal and the qualitative.

A second edition of Stephen Gill's acclaimed biography William Wordsworth: A Life. Completely revised and updated, this edition explores the whole of Wordsworth's life including his career, his personal relationships, and the historical circumstances that affected his poetry.

A scholarly edition of a work by William Wordsworth. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of the great Romantic poet. Introduced by a noted Wordsworth scholar, this edition includes poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade', a generous selection from his later poems, extracts from Guide to the Lakes, and the political prose of the Convention of Cintra.

The most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of the great Romantic poet. Introduced by a noted Wordsworth scholar, this edition includes poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade', a generous selection from his later poems, extracts from Guide to the Lakes, and the political prose of the Convention of Cintra.

Eighteen leading philosophers offer critical assessments of Timothy Williamson's ground-breaking work on knowledge and its impact on philosophy today. They discuss epistemological issues concerning evidence, defeasibility, scepticism, testimony, assertion, and perception, and debate Williamson's central claim that knowledge is a mental state.

Eighteen leading philosophers offer critical assessments of Timothy Williamson's ground-breaking work on knowledge and its impact on philosophy today. They discuss epistemological issues concerning evidence, defeasibility, scepticism, testimony, assertion, and perception, and debate Williamson's central claim that knowledge is a mental state.

Willing and Nothingness enriches our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. Eight leading scholars contribute specially written essays in which Nietzsche's changing conceptions of pessimism, tragedy, art, morality, truth, knowledge, religion, atheism, determinism, the will, and the self are revealed as responses to the work of the thinker he called his `great teacher'.