Books by Derek Roper
“Emily Brontë’s poems, which are mostly written for the paracosm she created of Gondel, contain huge numbers of sorceress-like women. Multiple murderers, adulteresses, faithless queens … The result is these searingly beautiful and musical poems, a lot of which are female voices, speaking confidently. It intersects superbly with her very powerful sense, again of the weather, and of the landscape, and of the history of the landscape, the people who’ve inhabited that landscape. “ Read more...
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft
Diane Purkiss, Historian
Interviews where books by Derek Roper were recommended
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Red Shift
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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
by Neil Price -
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Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
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The Annotated Collected Poems
Edward Thomas (ed. by Edna Longley) -
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The Poems of Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (ed. by Derek Roper)
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss
For centuries, the witch has been an index not only of what we fear most in others, but also what we cannot cope with—the powerfully abnormal, strange and often irrational elements—in ourselves. And the best way to understand the history of witches and witchcraft is to first understand the supernatural, according to Diane Purkiss, Professor at Keble College, Oxford and author of the lauded book The Witch in History.
