I've had a copy of this book around my house for several weeks, and at least twenty friends have picked it up for a look, gotten instantly transfixed by one or another of these lucid, haunting, and irresistibly truthtelling poems, and realized they HAD TO have it. This second volume of Campbell's poetry is so much, so suddenly the real thing. Like Cavafy, say, it seems to offer a new kind of companionship with oneself as well as with the poet. Please don't miss this.

Western Europe was transformed by new geographic worlds opened up by voyages, and new scientific worlds opened by science. Wonder & Science analyzes colonial reports, works of natural history and travel, and popular writings to gather details on how concepts and worlds were challenged and remade. Chapters cover some great authors and thinkers in England and France: individuals who made their marks on a changed world.