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Selected Poems
He was E. M Forster's 'favorite contemporary poet'. W. H Auden extolled his 'first-class visual imagination'. Stephen Spender considered his output 'among the best English poems written in the present century'. Yet for most readers, William Plomer (1903--1973) is now a faintly-remembered name. Born in Pietersburg, South Africa, Plomer settled in London in 1929, where he went on to occupy a central position in English letters. By the time of his death he had published ten books of poetry. In a voice impersonal and strange, Plomer's best poems reveal a mind that delights in the 'sensory, pictorial and plastic' (though not, as he thought, at the expense of the metaphysical).
A Street Shaken by Light
In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe. A romantic and picaresque adventure set in the eighteenth-century in Scotland, France and India.
I Know that Name!
Full of fun facts, intriguing trivia, and engrossing explorations of more than 100 Canadians who beat the odds to become household names.
Accounts and Papers
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Parliamentary Papers
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William Alexander, Lord Stirling
The biographical account of a man who served 18th-century American society as a prominent citizen in peacetime and as a soldier in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution At the beginning of the Revolutionary War Stirling was appointed a colonel in the New Jersey Continental Line and from there rose to the rank of Major General. A brave and loyal soldier, he greatly impressed General George Washington, who made him commander of one of the five divisions of the Continental Army. Serving in this capacity, Stirling made his reputation as a military man fighting in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He spent the winter of 1777-78 wit...
