It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in William Blake on Self and Soul Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his ...

She argues that the works of literature most likely to be seen as "deep" or "real" or "true" are those that seem bent on impressing the reader with a dark, harsh view of existence: "Their pessimism, gravity, and glamour go hand in hand.

New Ghosts is Laura Quinney's second volume of poetry, and continues and intensifies the exploration of a desolate reality which can offer us nothing but the love it demands from us in order to confront it.Of her first book, Corridor, ...

Revising current thinking about periodisation, these essays survey the Romantic canon's evolution over time and approach Romanticism as a phenomenon unfolding across national borders.