Barbara Reynolds

Marking the centennial of her birth, a new look at the life and work of Dorothy L. Sayers uses private letters and photographs to create a portrait of the author who created aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and became a noted Christian scholar

Her Life and Soul

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man

Dante

The Linguistic Writings of Alessandro Manzoni

A Textual and Chronological Reconstruction

Betty Radice

William Radice

Essays on translation cover Chinese poetry, early Irish tales, Latin prose, Ouid's love poetry, Sanskrit myths, Greek tragedy, and Japanese poetry

Essays in Honour of Betty Radice

The Translator's Art

Dante is one of the towering figures of European literature, yet there remain a surprising number of questions about his life and works; Who was the leader that would bring peace to the world, as Virgil and Beatrice prophesied in the Commedia? Who was Beatrice, really? Was De Vulgari Eloquentia truly a treatise on the art of writing? Did he need a medicinal muse? Dante scholar and translator Barbara Reynolds contends the master used cannabis to soar to greater creative heights. Besides proposing a solution to the famous prophecies, this lively, engaging, and elegantly written biography contains a provocative new idea in virtually every chapter, offering alternative interpretations of his work. Drawing from an impressive array of sources, Reynolds provides a comprehensive analysis of the poet, placing him within the context of his culture and society to deepen our understanding of a complicated man who was irritable, opinionated, and vengeful--and an extraordinary genius.

K. T. Butler

A 1947 collection of thirteen short stories, presented in the original Italian, written in the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth.

Tredici Novelle Moderne

Dorothy Leigh Sayers

The letters of Dorothy Sayers to family, friends and professional colleagues bear the imprint of her vigorous mind, reflecting the social, cultural and religious issues in which she took a passionate interest. In this volume, Barbara Reynolds has selected letter which provide a portrait of a younf woman who loved and lost, a mother who could not acknowledge her own child but who poured her frustrated love for him into her letters.

1899-1936 : the making of a detective novelist

The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers

A collection of letters looks at the seven-year period in which the famous mystery novelist turned to writing drama

From Novelist to Playwright

The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1937-1943

Dorothy L. Sayers, detective novelist, poet, scholar, playwright, and Christian apologist, spent the last fourteen years of her life reading and translating Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The first two volumes of her translation, 'Hell' and 'Purgatory', were published during her lifetime, but when she died in 1957 the third volume, 'Paradise', was unfinished. It was completed by her friend Barbara Reynolds. Thirty years later Barbara Reynolds wrote this book, the first full-length study of this illuminating stage in the creative life of Dorothy Sayers. Drawing on personal reminiscences and unpublished letters, she tells a moving and compelling story. The work explores the dynamic impact of Dante upon a mature mind. New light is shed on Dorothy Sayers' personality, her relationship with her friends, her methods of work, and her intellectual and spiritual development. Readers of Dante, no less than readers of Sayers, will find this an exciting book.

Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante

The Passionate Intellect

Dante is one of the world's towering literary geniuses and yet perhaps the most enigmatic, with many puzzles remaining about his turbulent life. Now Barbara Reynolds, a leading expert on Dante, in this her acclaimed biography, pieces together the many mysterious clues scattered throughout Dante's works, including his masterpiece The Divine Comedy. She reveals a startling new portrait of Dante: the poet, the thinker and the man.

Barbara Reynolds

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