British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8Scribner, 1979 - 400 pages This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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... Literary Relationships of Sir Walter Ralegh ( Cam- bridge , 1936 ) . C. F. Tucker Brooke , " Sir Walter Ra- legh as Poet and Philosopher , " in English Literary His- tory ( June 1938 ) ; repr . in Essays on Shakespeare ( London , 1948 ) ...
... Literary Relationships of Sir Walter Ralegh ( Cam- bridge , 1936 ) . C. F. Tucker Brooke , " Sir Walter Ra- legh as Poet and Philosopher , " in English Literary His- tory ( June 1938 ) ; repr . in Essays on Shakespeare ( London , 1948 ) ...
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... literary children of the mar- riage easily united the gifts of both sides , for the gap between the two tastes was not as great as was sometimes supposed . The delight in the remote and the exalted was a popular as well as a learned ...
... literary children of the mar- riage easily united the gifts of both sides , for the gap between the two tastes was not as great as was sometimes supposed . The delight in the remote and the exalted was a popular as well as a learned ...
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... literary talents which found vent not only in the verse that these books contain , but also ( it seems likely ) in ... literary future lay in fields for which Gager ( and , presumably , Peele ) had less admiration ; about 1581 Peele ...
... literary talents which found vent not only in the verse that these books contain , but also ( it seems likely ) in ... literary future lay in fields for which Gager ( and , presumably , Peele ) had less admiration ; about 1581 Peele ...
Contents
WILLIAM LANGLAND Nevill Coghill | 1 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nevill Coghill | 19 |
JOHN GOWER Derek Pearsall | 48 |
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