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GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905), Scottish Victorian writer, began his adult life as a clergyman. After a short career in the pulpit, he turned to writing, and with publication of his fiction in the 1860s, he became widely known throughout Britain and the United States. In addition to his novels, he wrote some fifty books, including poetry, short stories, sermons, and essays. MICHAEL PHILLIPS is a bestselling author with more than seventy of his own titles and editor/redactor of nearly thirty more books. He is known as one of the world's foremost MacDonald experts. In addition to the MacDonald tit |
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was one of the wittiest and most worldly of English poetry's great twentieth century masters. His work ranges from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the romantic. He is also, with his exhilarating lyrical power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises, an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries of experience. More than any other poet, Auden used his poetry as an instrument to study the massive forces, dramas, and upheavals of the twentieth century, and his work displays an astonishin
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