Leo Damrosch Books
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about S...
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Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a pro...
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The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit
By Leopold Damrosch, Leo Damrosch
In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader - second only to George Fox in the nascent movement - rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of J...
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