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Preaching the Converted
New Books by English Faculty
Samantha Zacher’s recent book Preaching the Converted rigorously examines Old English homiletic rhetoric and poetics.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.John Milton

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2008

Poems in Conversation and a Conversation
Poems in Conversation and a Conversation by Elizabeth Alexander & Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
Reading the Modern British & Irish Novel
Daniel R. Schwarz, the Fredric J. Whiton Professor of English, presents powerful close readings of modernist masterworks.
The Nightingales of Troy
Alice Fulton, a distinguished American poet, couples exquisite lyrical gifts with a powerful narrative in her first book of fiction.
Boone: A Biography
Poet, novelist, and biographer Robert Morgan’s Boone: A Biography is now in its fifth printing.
Their Dogs Came With Them
Helena Maria Viramontes’ new novel is “a book that is upon you before you know it and once read cannot be shaken.” -Junot Díaz
William Shakespeare
Is Shakespeare vanishing? At Cornell, he is alive and well.