The complete online text of Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

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Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Prose. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005. Margaret Clunies Ross's book fulfils what its title promises: it offers a comprehensive history of the Old Norse poetic tradition from its beginnings to 1400. This chronological...