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“The Poet of the Woods” is a delightful poetry collection coupled with beautiful colour illustrations, containing a selection of classic poems about nightingales, written by various authors including John Keats, John Milton, William Cowper, and many others. Featured often in British Romantic poetry and nature poetry in general, the nightingale produces a powerful and beautiful song which has inspired poets since time immemorial and continues to be a recurring symbol in literature today. A perfect gift for poetry lovers, twitchers or birdwatchers that would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: “Birds and Poets, an Essay by John Burroughs”, “The Nightingale, by W. Swaysland”, “To the Nightingale, by Countess of Winchilsea Anne Finch”, “Song by Hartley Coleridge”, “The Nightingale, by Katharine Tynan Hinkson”, “Philomel by Richard Barnfield”, “The Nightingale's Nest by John Clare”, “The Nightingale, by Mark Akenside”, “The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, “The Nightingale's Death Song, by Felicia Dorothea Hemans”, “To the Nightingale by Ann Radcliffe”, etc. Ragged Hand is proud to be publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry now for the enjoyment of bird lovers young and old.

These essays examine European travel writing from 1500 to 1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. By focusing on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalised travellers to speak.

Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stocktaking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward. They chart the changes in the field over the past half century, while also looking forward to more change in the future.