From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, this title constructs an examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles.

'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.

Focuses on sonnet's chronological vicissitudes. This book shows how individual poets - from Shakespeare to Strand - have claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened them, shortened them, elaborated on them and, in turn, been defined by them.