The complete online text of A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald.

During the mid-to late-Victorian period, George MacDonald was a public personality and a well-known literary figure. Leading critical journals printed long articles on his work; in 1869 the London Quarterly Review called him "one of the most popular auth...

Any study that seeks to trace the influences of English and European romanticism in "mythopoeic" fantasy must turn to the works of the Scottish author George MacDonald. He was a contemporary of Lewis Carroll (MacDonald's children read "Alice's Adventures...

George MacDonald is remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy. Although he wrote many different kinds of books, including realistic novels, poetry, sermons, and literary criticism, his imaginative fairy tales of growth and redemption we...

Luigi Fontanella. The Transparent Life and Other Poems. Michael Palma, tr. Stony Brook, N.Y. Gradiva. 2000. xi + 84 pages. $13. ISBN 1-892021-03-X. Luigi Fontanella, a deracinated Italian, has published several volumes of Italian poetry in the United States. In The Transparent...

Byline: DAISY GOODWIN DAISY GOODWIN Poems for life My daughter brought this poem home from school the other day 'to discuss'. As the meaning of it has been argued over by critics and readers since it was first published...