Garrett, who has written widely on Renaissance and 19th-century literature, has lived in Cambridge since 1994, which might be considered a long time in, say, Phoenix. He looks at the university town f
Garrett, who has authored literary companions to Italy and to Greece, here offers travelers to Venice some enrichment of their experience with his discussion of the history and architecture of Venice
Garrett, who is working on a volume about the two 19th-century British writers for the Interviews and Recollections series, uses letters and other material to construct a chronology of their lives and
In one week in May 1814 Byron saw Kean as Iago at Drury Lane, Napoleon landed on Elba, the Shelleys met possibly for the first time, and Mansfield Park was published. A Romantics Chronology, 1870-1832
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote two of the best known shorter poems in English, 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'Ozymandias'; a series of ambitious and challenging long poems including Queen Mab and
"Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a center for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest univer
Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French rivers." It is the longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods. Beginning as a mountain stream in the Ard?che, it iss
Gustave Flaubert called the Loire "the most French of French rivers." It is the longest river in France and the most varied in scenery and moods. Beginning as a mountain stream in the ArdFche, it issu
Celebrated by writers from Petrach to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis, and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Martin Garrett explores a region littered with ancient monume
