A short-story collection that turns everyday scenes upside down through miscommunication and assumption. Its light touch brings out the comedy hidden in small incidents and the fragility of human relationships.

A slight shift in conversation is enough to alter the way the world is seen.

A poetry collection that looks hard at the roughness of life and the pain cast by war against a backdrop of rural memory. Its language, grounded in nature and bodily experience, leaves a strong sense of a disappearing way of life.

The book uses poetry to recover the texture of a way of life that is slipping away.

A critical book that extends Mario Praz's earlier work by tracing the line of imagination and decadence after Romanticism. Its method of turning close observation into a network of relations moves across both literature and art.

It grasps detail and then opens it into a wider web of cultural connections.