English Men of Letters
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- Editor: John Morley
- Date Published: December 2011
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108034791
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In the 1870s, the publishing house of Macmillan began to issue a series of books called English Men of Letters - biographies of English writers by other English writers. The general editor of the series was the journalist, critic, politician, and supporter (and later biographer) of Gladstone, John Morley (1838–1923), and its aim was that the books should be a short introduction to the subject and his works, but also that the life should illuminate the works, and vice versa. The subjects range chronologically from Chaucer to Thackeray and Dickens, and one of the great interests of the series is that many of the authors were discussing writers of the previous generation, and some had even known their subjects personally. The series demonstrates an approach to literary biography and criticism at the end of the nineteenth century, and also reveals which authors were at that time regarded as canonical.
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108034791
- length: 8052 pages
- dimensions: 354 x 485 x 186 mm
- weight: 13kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Addison
Bacon
Bentley
Bunyan
Burke
Robert Burns
Byron
Thomas Carlyle
Chaucer
Coleridge
Cowper
De Quincey
Daniel Defoe
Dickens
Dryden
Fielding
Gibbon
Goldsmith
Gray
Hawthorne
Hume
Samuel Johnson
Keats
Charles Lamb
Landor
Locke
Macaulay
Milton
Alexander Pope
Sir Walter Scott
Shelley
Sheridan
Sir Philip Sidney
Southey
Spenser
Sterne
Swift
Thackeray
Wordsworth.
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