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  • English Literature Between the Wars

    by B. Ifor Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads the author to assess the changes in the reading public, and in the movement of taste. He is led to the conclusion that in the inter-war period some writers were aware that a crisis in civilization was ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Literature and Science

    by B. Ifor Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature and between scientists and men of letters from the Renaissance onwards. It shows periods when writers were enthusiastic about science as in the early days of the Royal Society and notably through the influence of Newton. Further it explores the later alienation between science and ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century (1933)

    by B. Ifor Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1933, this study, which underwent revision in the 1960s, is a comprehensive survey of the verse of English nineteenth-century poets whose work appeared after 1860. A special feature is the full and critical treatment of minor writers. In no other book is their work so carefully evaluated. There is a full account of the minor Pre-Raphaelites, of James Thomson, the poet of The ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Tradition and Romanticism

    Studies in English Poetry from Chaucer to W. B. Yeats

    by B. Ifor Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
    First published in 1940. This title examines the tradition of Romantic literature, and the conception of poetry held by poets and critics throughout the centuries. Evans explores the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge, up until the modernist movement and the works of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. This title will be of interest to students of literature. ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: English Literature (1962)

    Values and Traditions

    by B. Ifor Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1962, this book is a reflection on Sir Ifor Evans’s well-known A Short History of English Literature. In this reflective study, Evans wonders if it is possible to trace permanent elements in such a huge and varied mass of writings? As he moves from the Anglo-Saxon Caedmon to T.S Eliot, or from Milton to James Joyce, he finds out how, in unexpected ways, the English spirit of ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

    by David Churchill Somervell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In Between The Wars Mr Somervell examines those twenty-one years of uneasy peace which elapsed between the First and Second World Wars, and analyses the gradual deterioration in international relations which marked the period.The victorious, all-powerful Allies of 1919, by founding the League of Nations with its prospects of open diplomacy and its machinery for negotiation, hoped to set up new ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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  • A History of English Literature

    Traversing the Centuries

    by Aditi Chowdhury, Rita Goswami ...
    A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual developments which inevitably contribute to and influence literature in both overt and ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Selected Literary Essays

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism," to Shakespeare and Bunyan, and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • English Literature from the Restoration through the Romantic Period

    by J.E. Luebering ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
    Both the form and content of literature today owes much to the developments that took place in England between the Restoration and Romantic periods. The emergence of the novel triggered the creation of new genres and accompanied a rise in literacy throughout the country. This volume examines the English writers who helped shape the social, political, and religious climate of the age, and immerses ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • English Poetry of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

    by J.R. Watson ...
    Series series Longman Literature In English Series
    On its first appearance English Poetry of the Romantic Period was widely praised as on of the best introductions to the subject. This edition includes updated material in the light of recent work in Romanticism and Romantic poetry. The book discusses the concerns that linked the Romantic poets, from their responses to the political and social upheavals around them to their interest in the poet's ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • English Literature

    A Student Guide

    by Martin Stephen ...
    Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD