Frank Kermode attempts to determine the criteria for classical literature through an analysis of the social and intellectual importance of great works of the pa

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unima

The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners.