British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8This 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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... journal , as well as having great intrinsic merits , is unique in having given birth to great in- dependent literary works . His three major books , An Account of Corsica ( 1768 ) , The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides ( 1786 ) , and ...
... journal , as well as having great intrinsic merits , is unique in having given birth to great in- dependent literary works . His three major books , An Account of Corsica ( 1768 ) , The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides ( 1786 ) , and ...
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... journal as well as I can in the hasty man- ner in which I write it . ( journal , 24 October 1764 ) 13J . L. Clifford's Young Samuel Johnson ( London , 1955 ) draws on a file of Johnsonian matter in the Boswell papers , which Boswell ...
... journal as well as I can in the hasty man- ner in which I write it . ( journal , 24 October 1764 ) 13J . L. Clifford's Young Samuel Johnson ( London , 1955 ) draws on a file of Johnsonian matter in the Boswell papers , which Boswell ...
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... Journal - differs markedly from the corresponding trade issue . Otherwise the difference is confined to a better format and more illustration . The early volumes of the Isham edition contain a few items not reprinted in the Yale ...
... Journal - differs markedly from the corresponding trade issue . Otherwise the difference is confined to a better format and more illustration . The early volumes of the Isham edition contain a few items not reprinted in the Yale ...
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