This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets
Table Manners (Ayckbourn) 28 Tailor of Gloucester, The (Potter) 385 Tailor of Panama, The (le Carré) 292 Take a Girl ... Paul 279 Teacher (Ashton-Warner) 21–22 Tears of the Giraffe (McCall Smith) 325 Tempest-Tost (Davies) 131 Tenancy of ...
Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.
Profiles the finest British poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and other writers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including essential details about the author's life and work and suggestions for...
Encyclopedia of British Writers
Thus, some like the 19th-century English poet Robert Southey criticized Herrick as “a coarse-minded and beastly writer,” while the 20th-century English critic F. R. Leavis pronounced Herrick “trivially charming.” Still, Herrick did have ...
Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.
Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the British literary canon from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on British writers from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.
The communal cat, Stripey, is notlarge enough to chase fullgrown rats—they chase her instead. Woody, apainter of marine subjects whosecommissions havedried up,lives on a boatthatis becomingone with theseaasitslowly sinks—and as itsowner ...