When The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland first
appeared, it was hailed by The Times of London as "the finest
reference work of its kind." Now in a new edition, with over 150
more authors and new feature entries by high-profile authors such
as Margaret Drabble and John Sutherland, this beautifully
illustrated, over-sized volume lists hundreds of places in Britain
and Ireland and details their connections with the lives of famous
writers.
This popular guide provides more than 200 illustrations of
writers, their houses, and the landscapes that inspired them, as
well as a wealth of curious information and entertaining anecdotes.
Take a tour of Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey, where you can
find Chaucer's canopied tomb, a monument to Shakespeare with lines
from The Tempest, the grave of Dickens, and tablets to Dylan
Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, among many others. Read how the
Cumbrian Lake District's breathtaking scenery inspired the "Lake
Poets" Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and how Keats' "Ode to a
Grecian Urn" was written after he saw the Athenian sculptures at
the British Museum. Walk through Chelsea to see where of A.A.
Milne, Mark Twain, and Bram Stoker lived. Or travel off the beaten
path, to Liverpool, for instance, where bankruptcy led Washington
Irving to write the great American classic Rip Van Winkle, or to
Muckross, where the author of Baron Munchausen, himself a spinner
of tall tales, conned a landowner into buying property planted with
samples of rich ore, or to Near Sawrey, where Beatrix Potter owned
a seventeenth-century farmhouse.
Arranged for easy reference, with maps and an index of writers,
The Oxford Guide to Literary Great Britainand Ireland captures the
richness of this great literary heritage.
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