The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, Pat Rogers

Publisher: Oxford
ISBN: 9780192854377

198.00 Lei
Ex Tax: 198.00 Lei

Qty

Add to Wish List Compare this Product

Description

Britain possesses a literary heritage virtually unrivaled in the Western world. This lavishly illustrated volume explores the richness, diversity, and continuity of that tradition.

Under the general editorship of Pat Rogers, some of Britain's foremost literary scholars trace the history of English literature from its first stirrings in Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.

The contributors aim to convey to the reader the pleasure and exhilaration of literature, rather than to provide a bare outline of schools and periods of writing. At the heart of the volume towers the figure of Shakespeare, who has a special chapter devoted entirely to himself.

The volume also offer detailed treatments of other major writers such as Chaucer, Milton, Donne, Wordsworth, Dickens, Eliot, and Auden, and discussions of living authors such as Muriel Spark and Seamus Heaney.