Author : Chris Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2003-12-02
Category : History
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From the unique 10th-century manuscript of Beowulf to the work of such 20th-century authors as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath, this beautifully illustrated book presents the panorama of more than 1000 years of literature in English through original manuscripts.
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Kathleen Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : 9780712357081
How important a part did books play in the lives of successive English monarchs and their families? Besides Alfred the Great, Edward IV, Henry VIII, and George III, which kings cared for books? This well-illustrated volume presents a fresh and wide-ranging review of the material and documentary evidence for royal interest in handwritten and printed books. Leading experts offer new perspectives on the part of England's monarchs in the circulation and preservation of texts from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Some essays consider individual books or monarchs. Others take a wider view of several centuries of evidence. At the heart of the volume is the remarkable array of royal books held by the British Library, including the Old Royal Library presented to the nation by George II and the King's Library presented by George IV. Contributors: Richard Gameson, Michael Wood, James Carley, Nicholas Vincent, Joanna Fronska, Catherine Reynolds, Scot McKendrick, Kathleen Doyle, John Goldfinch, and Jane Roberts.
Author : Chris Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2009-09
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ISBN : 9781437965193
From the 10th-cent. manuscript of ¿Beowulf¿ to the work of such 20th-cent. authors as Sylvia Plath, this beautifully illustrated book presents a panorama of more than 1000 years of literature in English through original manuscripts. It reproduces manuscripts by 80 of the greatest Brit. and Irish writers of the last millennium, from Lamory and Shakespeare to Swift and Pope, from Coleridge and Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas. Presented in large color reproductions, they offer fascinating insights into the world of the writer at work. The text explains the significance of each manuscript and its importance to our understanding of the literature and the author. Each entry gives an overview of the writer¿s life, works, and times. Oversize. 200 illus. in full color.
Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415123429
This bestselling guide to the developments in the history of British and Irish literature uniquely charts the main features of literary language development, highlights key language topics and spans over 1,000 years of literary history.This new guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish Literature uniquely charts some of the main features of literary language development and highlights key language topics. Clearly structured and highly readable, unlike traditional histories of literature it spans over a thousand years of literary history from AD 600 to the present day. It emphasizes the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural.Key features of the book are:* an up-to-date guide to the major periods of literature in English in Britain and Ireland* extensive coverage of post-1945 literature* language notes spanning AD 600 to the present* extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama* a timeline of the important historical and political eventsThis will be essential reading for all students of English literature and language.
Author : John Peck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350309532
This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style. A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers. New to this Edition: - Revised chapter on twentieth century literature - Complete new chapter on twenty-first century literature - Updated Chronology and Further Reading section
Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118441125
A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Stopford Augustus Brooke
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English literature
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Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
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Samuel Butler was son and grandson of the priests. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1858. He got carried away by music and drawing. Torn with his father, in 1859-1864 he lived in New Zealand, bred sheep. He became an ardent devotee of Darwinism, his views spelled out in a study of Life and Habit (1877). Returning to England, engaged in literature and painting, lived a hermit. Traveled to Italy and Sicily. He exhibited paintings in the Royal Academy, wrote about Italian art. His prose was highly appreciated by Forster and Shaw, and later by Joyce, Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Maugham, George Orwell. Extremely frank autobiographical novel "The Way of All Flesh" (The Way of All Flesh) was completed by the author in the 1880s, but at the author's will was not published during his lifetime and was published only in 1903. Six volumes of his notebooks were also published, correspondence. FS Fitzgerald on the back of the title page of this book Butler wrote with his hand: "The most interesting human document of all available".
