British writers
British writers
- New York : Scribner, �1979-�1984.
- 7 volumes ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
V. 1. William Langland to the English Bible. -- v. 2. Thomas Middleton to George Farquhar. -- v. 3. Daniel Defoe to the Gothic novel. -- v. 4 William Wordsworth to Robert Browning. -- v. 5. Elizabeth Gaskell to Francis Thompson. -- v. 6. Thomas Hardy to Wilfred Owen. -- v. 7. Sean O'Casey to poets of World War II. William Langland / Geoffrey Chaucer / John Gower / John Lydgate / Sir Thomas Malory / John Skelton / Sir Thomas Wyatt / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey / Edmund Spenser / Sir Walter Ralegh / Sir Philip Sidney / Richard Hooker / John Lyly and George Peele / Thomas Kyd and Early Elizabethan Tragedy / George Chapman / Francis Bacon / Christopher Marlowe / William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson / John Donne / The English Bible / Nevill Coghill -- Nevill Coghill -- Derek Pearsall -- Derek Pearsall -- M. C. Bradbrook -- Peter Green -- Sergio Baldi -- A. S. G. Edwards -- Alastair Fowler -- Agnes M. C. Latham -- Kenneth Muir -- Arthur Pollard -- G. K. Hunter -- Philip Edwards -- M. C. Bradbrook -- Brian Vickers -- Philip Henderson -- Stanley Wells -- J. B. Bamborough -- Frank Kermode -- Donald Coggan -- v. 1. Thomas Middleton / John Marston and Cyril Tourneur / Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / John Webster / John Ford / Robert Herrick / George Herbert / Izaak Walton / Sir Thomas Browne / John Milton / Four Metaphysical Poets / Andrew Marvell / The Cavalier Poets / John Bunyon / The Restoration Court Poets / John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys / John Dryden / William Wycherley / Sir John Vanbrugh / William Congreve / George Farquhar / J. R. Mulryne -- R. A. Foakes -- Ian Fletcher -- Ian Scott-Kilvert -- Clifford Leech -- John Press -- T. S. Eliot -- Margaret Bottrall -- Peter Green -- E. M. W. Tillyard -- Margaret Willy -- John Press -- Robin Skelton -- Henri A. Talon -- Vivian de Sola Pinto -- Margaret Willy -- Bonamy Dobree -- P. F. Vernon -- Bernard Harris -- Bonamy Dobree -- A. J. Farmer -- v. 2. Daniel Defoe / Jonathan Swift / Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison / John Gay / Alexander Pope / Samuel Richardson / Henry Fielding / Samuel Johnson / Laurence Sterne / Thomas Gray / Tobias Smollett / William Collins / Oliver Goldsmith / Edmund Burke / William Cowper / Edward Gibbon / James Boswell / Richard Brinsley Sheridan / George Crabbe / William Blake / Robert Burns / The Gothic Novel / James Sutherland -- A. Norman Jeffares -- A. R. Humphreys -- Oliver Warner -- Ian Jack -- R. F. Brissenden -- John Butt -- S. C. Roberts -- D. W. Jefferson -- R. W. Ketton-Cremer -- Laurence Brander -- Oswald Doughty -- A. Norman Jeffares -- T. E. Utley -- Norman Nicholson -- C. V. Wedgwood -- P. A. W. Collins -- Arnold Hare -- R. L. Brett -- J. B. Beer -- David Daiches -- Brendan Hennessy -- v. 3. William Wordsworth / Sir Walter Scott / Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Robert Southey / Charles Lamb / Walter Savage Landor / Jane Austen / William Hazlitt / Thomas De Quincey / Thomas Love Peacock / George Gordon, Lord Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley / John Keats / Thomas Carlyle / Thomas Hood / Thomas Babington Macaulay / Benjamin Disraeli / Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Alfred Tennyson / Edward Fitzgerald / Robert Browning / J. R. Watson -- Ian Jack -- R. L. Brett -- Geoffrey Carnall -- Edmund Blunden -- G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- Brian Southam -- R. L. Brett -- Hugh Sykes Davies -- J. I. M. Stewart -- Malcolm Kelsall -- G. M. Matthews -- Miriam Allott -- Ian Campbell -- Laurence Brander -- Kenneth Young -- Paul Blomfield -- Alethea Hayter -- Brian Southam -- Joanna Richardson -- Philip Drew -- v. 4. Elizabeth Gaskell / William Makepeace Thackeray / Charles Dickens / Edward Lear / Anthony Trollope / The Brontes / Arthur Hugh Clough / John Ruskin / George Eliot / Matthew Arnold / George Meredith / Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Christina Rossetti / Lewis Carroll / Leslie Stephen / William Morris / Algernon Charles Swinburne / Walter Horatio Pater / Gerard Manley Hopkins / Robert Louis Stevenson / Oscar Wilde / George Gissing / Francis Thompson / Miriam Allott -- John Carey -- Barbara Hardy -- Joanna Richardson -- Hugh Sykes Davies -- Winifred Gerin -- Isobel Armstrong -- Peter Quennell -- Lettice Cooper -- Kenneth Allott -- Phyllis Bartlett -- Oswald Doughty -- Georgina Battiscombe -- Derek Hudson -- Phyllis Grosskurth -- Philip Henderson -- Ian Fletcher -- Ian Fletcher -- Graham Storey -- G. B. Stern -- John Stokes -- A. C. Ward -- Peter Butter -- v. 5. Thomas Hardy / Henry James / Robert Bridges / George Moore / George Bernard Shaw / Joseph Conrad / A. E. Housman / Rudyard Kipling / William Butler Yeats / H. G. Wells / Arnold Bennett / John Galsworthy / Norman Douglas / J. M. Synge and Lady Gregory / Ford Madox Ford / G. K. Chesterton / Winston Churchill / W. Somerset Maugham / G. M. Trevelyan / E. M. Forster / Poets of World War I / Wilfred Owen / C. Day Lewis and R. A. Scott-James -- Tony Tanner -- John Sparrow -- A. Norman Jeffares -- Margery M. Morgan -- C. B. Cox -- Ian Scott-Kilvert -- A. G. Sandison -- G. S. Fraser -- Kenneth Young -- Kenneth Young -- Margery M. Morgan -- Ian Greenless -- Elizabeth Coxhead -- Kenneth Young -- Christopher Hollis -- John Connell -- Anthony Curtis -- J. H. Plumb -- Philip Gardner -- John Press -- Dominic Hibberd -- v. 6. Sean O'Casey / Virginia Woolf / James Joyce / Ivy Compton-Burnett / Wyndham Lewis / D. H. Lawrence / Edith Sitwell / T. S. Eliot / Katherine Mansfield / Joyce Cary / Aldous Huxley / J. B. Priestley / F. R. Leavis / Robert Graves / George Orwell / Evelyn Waugh / Christopher Isherwood / C. P. Snow / Anthony Powell / John Betjeman / W. H. Auden / Louis MacNeice / Poets of World War II / Index. William A. Armstrong -- Bernard Blackstone -- J. I. M. Stewart -- R. Glynn Grylls -- E. W. F. Tomlin -- Alastair Niven -- John Lehmann -- M. C. Bradbrook -- Ian A. Gordon -- Walter Allen -- Jocelyn Brooke -- Kenneth Young -- Edward Greenwood -- Martin Seymour-Smith -- Tom Hopkinson -- William Myers -- Francis King -- William Cooper -- Bernard Bergonzi -- John Press -- Richard Hoggart -- John Press -- John Press -- v. 7. v. 8.
This collection of critical essays covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day.
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78023483
English literature--History and criticism.
English literature--Bio-bibliography.
Authors, English--Biography.
Reference works.
Bio-bibliography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Reference works.
Biography.
PR85 / .B688 1979
820/.9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
V. 1. William Langland to the English Bible. -- v. 2. Thomas Middleton to George Farquhar. -- v. 3. Daniel Defoe to the Gothic novel. -- v. 4 William Wordsworth to Robert Browning. -- v. 5. Elizabeth Gaskell to Francis Thompson. -- v. 6. Thomas Hardy to Wilfred Owen. -- v. 7. Sean O'Casey to poets of World War II. William Langland / Geoffrey Chaucer / John Gower / John Lydgate / Sir Thomas Malory / John Skelton / Sir Thomas Wyatt / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey / Edmund Spenser / Sir Walter Ralegh / Sir Philip Sidney / Richard Hooker / John Lyly and George Peele / Thomas Kyd and Early Elizabethan Tragedy / George Chapman / Francis Bacon / Christopher Marlowe / William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson / John Donne / The English Bible / Nevill Coghill -- Nevill Coghill -- Derek Pearsall -- Derek Pearsall -- M. C. Bradbrook -- Peter Green -- Sergio Baldi -- A. S. G. Edwards -- Alastair Fowler -- Agnes M. C. Latham -- Kenneth Muir -- Arthur Pollard -- G. K. Hunter -- Philip Edwards -- M. C. Bradbrook -- Brian Vickers -- Philip Henderson -- Stanley Wells -- J. B. Bamborough -- Frank Kermode -- Donald Coggan -- v. 1. Thomas Middleton / John Marston and Cyril Tourneur / Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / John Webster / John Ford / Robert Herrick / George Herbert / Izaak Walton / Sir Thomas Browne / John Milton / Four Metaphysical Poets / Andrew Marvell / The Cavalier Poets / John Bunyon / The Restoration Court Poets / John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys / John Dryden / William Wycherley / Sir John Vanbrugh / William Congreve / George Farquhar / J. R. Mulryne -- R. A. Foakes -- Ian Fletcher -- Ian Scott-Kilvert -- Clifford Leech -- John Press -- T. S. Eliot -- Margaret Bottrall -- Peter Green -- E. M. W. Tillyard -- Margaret Willy -- John Press -- Robin Skelton -- Henri A. Talon -- Vivian de Sola Pinto -- Margaret Willy -- Bonamy Dobree -- P. F. Vernon -- Bernard Harris -- Bonamy Dobree -- A. J. Farmer -- v. 2. Daniel Defoe / Jonathan Swift / Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison / John Gay / Alexander Pope / Samuel Richardson / Henry Fielding / Samuel Johnson / Laurence Sterne / Thomas Gray / Tobias Smollett / William Collins / Oliver Goldsmith / Edmund Burke / William Cowper / Edward Gibbon / James Boswell / Richard Brinsley Sheridan / George Crabbe / William Blake / Robert Burns / The Gothic Novel / James Sutherland -- A. Norman Jeffares -- A. R. Humphreys -- Oliver Warner -- Ian Jack -- R. F. Brissenden -- John Butt -- S. C. Roberts -- D. W. Jefferson -- R. W. Ketton-Cremer -- Laurence Brander -- Oswald Doughty -- A. Norman Jeffares -- T. E. Utley -- Norman Nicholson -- C. V. Wedgwood -- P. A. W. Collins -- Arnold Hare -- R. L. Brett -- J. B. Beer -- David Daiches -- Brendan Hennessy -- v. 3. William Wordsworth / Sir Walter Scott / Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Robert Southey / Charles Lamb / Walter Savage Landor / Jane Austen / William Hazlitt / Thomas De Quincey / Thomas Love Peacock / George Gordon, Lord Byron / Percy Bysshe Shelley / John Keats / Thomas Carlyle / Thomas Hood / Thomas Babington Macaulay / Benjamin Disraeli / Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Alfred Tennyson / Edward Fitzgerald / Robert Browning / J. R. Watson -- Ian Jack -- R. L. Brett -- Geoffrey Carnall -- Edmund Blunden -- G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- Brian Southam -- R. L. Brett -- Hugh Sykes Davies -- J. I. M. Stewart -- Malcolm Kelsall -- G. M. Matthews -- Miriam Allott -- Ian Campbell -- Laurence Brander -- Kenneth Young -- Paul Blomfield -- Alethea Hayter -- Brian Southam -- Joanna Richardson -- Philip Drew -- v. 4. Elizabeth Gaskell / William Makepeace Thackeray / Charles Dickens / Edward Lear / Anthony Trollope / The Brontes / Arthur Hugh Clough / John Ruskin / George Eliot / Matthew Arnold / George Meredith / Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Christina Rossetti / Lewis Carroll / Leslie Stephen / William Morris / Algernon Charles Swinburne / Walter Horatio Pater / Gerard Manley Hopkins / Robert Louis Stevenson / Oscar Wilde / George Gissing / Francis Thompson / Miriam Allott -- John Carey -- Barbara Hardy -- Joanna Richardson -- Hugh Sykes Davies -- Winifred Gerin -- Isobel Armstrong -- Peter Quennell -- Lettice Cooper -- Kenneth Allott -- Phyllis Bartlett -- Oswald Doughty -- Georgina Battiscombe -- Derek Hudson -- Phyllis Grosskurth -- Philip Henderson -- Ian Fletcher -- Ian Fletcher -- Graham Storey -- G. B. Stern -- John Stokes -- A. C. Ward -- Peter Butter -- v. 5. Thomas Hardy / Henry James / Robert Bridges / George Moore / George Bernard Shaw / Joseph Conrad / A. E. Housman / Rudyard Kipling / William Butler Yeats / H. G. Wells / Arnold Bennett / John Galsworthy / Norman Douglas / J. M. Synge and Lady Gregory / Ford Madox Ford / G. K. Chesterton / Winston Churchill / W. Somerset Maugham / G. M. Trevelyan / E. M. Forster / Poets of World War I / Wilfred Owen / C. Day Lewis and R. A. Scott-James -- Tony Tanner -- John Sparrow -- A. Norman Jeffares -- Margery M. Morgan -- C. B. Cox -- Ian Scott-Kilvert -- A. G. Sandison -- G. S. Fraser -- Kenneth Young -- Kenneth Young -- Margery M. Morgan -- Ian Greenless -- Elizabeth Coxhead -- Kenneth Young -- Christopher Hollis -- John Connell -- Anthony Curtis -- J. H. Plumb -- Philip Gardner -- John Press -- Dominic Hibberd -- v. 6. Sean O'Casey / Virginia Woolf / James Joyce / Ivy Compton-Burnett / Wyndham Lewis / D. H. Lawrence / Edith Sitwell / T. S. Eliot / Katherine Mansfield / Joyce Cary / Aldous Huxley / J. B. Priestley / F. R. Leavis / Robert Graves / George Orwell / Evelyn Waugh / Christopher Isherwood / C. P. Snow / Anthony Powell / John Betjeman / W. H. Auden / Louis MacNeice / Poets of World War II / Index. William A. Armstrong -- Bernard Blackstone -- J. I. M. Stewart -- R. Glynn Grylls -- E. W. F. Tomlin -- Alastair Niven -- John Lehmann -- M. C. Bradbrook -- Ian A. Gordon -- Walter Allen -- Jocelyn Brooke -- Kenneth Young -- Edward Greenwood -- Martin Seymour-Smith -- Tom Hopkinson -- William Myers -- Francis King -- William Cooper -- Bernard Bergonzi -- John Press -- Richard Hoggart -- John Press -- John Press -- v. 7. v. 8.
This collection of critical essays covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day.
0684157985 9780684157986 0684164078 9780684164076 0684164086 9780684164083 0684166356 9780684166353 0684166364 9780684166360 0684166372 9780684166377 0684166380 9780684166384 0684174170 9780684174174 9780684325002 0684325004
78023483
English literature--History and criticism.
English literature--Bio-bibliography.
Authors, English--Biography.
Reference works.
Bio-bibliography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Reference works.
Biography.
PR85 / .B688 1979
820/.9