While most of the selections fall under the heading of religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected from The Temple, and two early poems from Isaak Walton's Lives are also included. Crashaw is represented by sixteen poems from Steps to the Temple, Delights of the Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro; Marvel...(展开全部)

Review Vendler is undoubtedly a finely trained and extraordinarily resourceful reader, and I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book. (Frank Kermode New York Times Book Review ) Helen Vendler in The Poetry of George Herbert shows herself to be the most distinguished contemporary practitioner of...(展开全部)

Review Vendler is undoubtedly a finely trained and extraordinarily resourceful reader, and I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book. (Frank Kermode New York Times Book Review ) Helen Vendler in The Poetry of George Herbert shows herself to be the most distinguished contemporary practitioner of...(展开全部)

With access not only to the Bush diaries but, through extensive interviews, to the former president himself, Meacham presents Bush’s candid assessments of many of the critical figures of the age, ranging from Richard Nixon to Nancy Reagan; Mao to Mikhail Gorbachev; Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld; Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton. Here is high politics as it really is but as we r...(展开全部)

The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

卜正民（Timothy Brook），哈佛大学哲学博士，不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史系讲座教授，加拿大皇家学会会员，2015—2016年度亚洲研究学会（Association for Asian Studies）会长。曾任多伦多、斯坦福、牛津等大学历史学教授，不列颠哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长。主要研究明代社会和文化史、中国近代史、全球史，并担任哈佛大学出版社《帝制中国历史》主编。2005年获加拿大历史协会颁发的历史学奖项弗朗索瓦‧泽维尔‧加诺奖章，2006年获颁古根海姆学术奖。代表著作有《纵乐的困惑》《维米尔的帽子》《为权力祈祷》《秩序的沦陷》《塞尔登的中国地图》等。