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Biographical Companion to Literature in English (Hardcover, New)
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Biographical Companion to Literature in English (Hardcover, New)
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This first U.S. editon of Collins Biographical Dictionary of
English Literature (1993) was prepared with the the general reader
in mind and students of literature of all ages. The lives and
principal literary achievements of over 1500 writers are outlined
in brief essays that emphasize the links between the life and art
of each writer. Authors of works in other languages are included if
they are widely read in English or have influenced the development
of literature in English. Kamm also pays special attention to
black, Jewish, and women's writing. Kamm takes into account the
contributions of individual authors to the development of national
literatures and cultural traditions. He covers novelists in
numerous genres, from Petronius to Bellow, Stephen King to Vargas
Llosa; short story writers from Hawthorne and Henry James to Mavis
Gallant, Alice Munro and Eudora Welty; poets from Homer, Virgil,
and Petrarch, to Heaney, Denise Levertov, and Walcott; dramatists
from Sophocles to Shepard; diarists from Pepys to Anne Frank; as
well as travelers, historians, biographers, critics, philosophers,
clerics, religious reformers, and children's writers. The many
suggestions for further reading have been chosen for their
accessibility. The latest edition is listed for each, together with
comprehensive bibliographical details, including subtitle and full
name of translator and editors where appropriate.
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