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Hisaaki Yamanouchi's career as scholar and professor of English literature has taken him Tokyo to the United States, Canada, Cambridge, and back to Tokyo again; the essays in this volume mark his retirement as Professor of English at the University of Tokyo. His special interest, reflected by many of these studies, has been the poets of the English Romantic period, but other studies cover aspects of literature from Chaucer to Henry James and, on a lighter note, cats and nonsense literature.

The Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe contributes a personal memoir.