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Title: Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 To the Present by Frank Kermode, John Hollander, William Golding ISBN: 0-19-501658-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $57.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stranded On A Desert Island? Take These 2 Volumes Along!
Comment: Someone once asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island, and could have one book with me, which would I choose? Easy answer - "The Oxford Anthology of English Literature." Actually, it's a two volume set - but I am designating the two volumes as one book, for desert island convenience.
This extraordinary 4,500 page collection contains Great Britain's finest literature from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Included are selections from "Beowulf," Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of "The Faerie Queene"), Sir Thomas Malory, Shakespeare (including "The Tempest'), Marlowe ("Dr. Faustus," "Hero and Leander"), John Donne, and Milton. There are over 100 pages devoted to William Blake, including "The Book of Thel," and the entire "Night the Ninth" from "The Four Zoas." It also contains poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron. And this is just a small sample.
In addition to the general editors Frank Kermode and John Hollander, the anthology has been edited and annotated by Harold Bloom, Martin Price, J.B. Trapp, and Lionel Trilling. The editors contribute brief period introductions, biographical and critical pieces for major authors, and essays preceding the major selections.
There are almost 300 wonderful illustrations included in the collection, representing important artists and their works for each period, that demonstrate the relationship between literary and visual images.
I have read through this wonderful anthology many times over the years, and never fail to learn something new, something to excite my imagination, with each reading. Highest Kudos!
JANA
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the one
Comment: I still have my incredibly beloved and beat-up copy from college days at Syracuse University; along with my "Complete Works of Shakespeare" (ed. Bevington)and Lumiansky's translation of "Canterbury Tales," this is one of those books I'll NEVER let go; if I had it with me on a desert island, I wouldn't mind being alone for a few years. It's got everything you could ask for from English lit., with excellent footnotes and introductory materials. A real treasure trove, and a must for anyone who really wants to start digging into the major Western writers -- yeah, those dead white guys; not so popular anymore -- just the ones who hold up the pillars of Western civilization!
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Title: Biography of the English Language by Celia M. Millward ISBN: 0155016458 Publisher: Thompson Internl Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $76.95 |
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Title: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1 B: The SixteenthCentury/The Early Seventeenth Century by M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, George M. Logan, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski ISBN: 0393975665 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.80 |
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Title: The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon, Claire Preston ISBN: 0140513639 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane ISBN: 0142437344 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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