BRITISH WRITERS, Supplement VI

British Writers: Supplement VI
by George Stade
Hardcover: 450 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 068480641X
ISBN-13: 978-0684806419

British Writers, Volume 1-8 (vol.8 is an index to volumes 1-7), is a collection of critical essays covering writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.

The goal of the supplements has been consistent with the original idea of the series: to provide clear, informative essays aimed at the general reader. These essays often rise to a high level of craft and critical vision, but they are meant to introduce a writer of some importance in the history of British or Anglophone literature, and to provide a sense of the scope and nature of the career under review.

Subjects in Supplement VI:

PETER ACKROYD by Thomas Wright
BERYL BAINBRIDGE by Patricia Craig
BEOWULF by Paul Bibere
ANDRE BRINK by Robert Niemi
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN by Sandie Byrne
J. M. COETZEE by Laban Carrick Hill
WILKIE COLLINS by Stephen Amidon
DONALD DAVIE by Neil Powell
RADCLYFFE HALL by Julie Hearn
T.E.HULME by Patrick McGuinness
HENRY KING by Diana Henderson
DEREK MAHON by Dillon Johnston
NORMAN MACCAIG by Philip Hobsbaum
EDWIN MUIR by Peter Scupham
NORMAN NICHOLSON by N. S. Thompson
PETER REDGROVE by Philip Hobsbaum
SAKI by Sandie Byrne
ANNE STEVENSON by Nicolas Tredell
ALEC WAUGH by D.J. Taylor
GILBERT WHITE by Samuel Pickering
A. N. WILSON by William H. Pritchard