BRITISH WRITERS, Supplement VII

British Writers: Supplement VII
By Jay Parini
Number Of Pages: 515
Publication Date: 1991-12-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 068480655X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780684806556
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 VII:

BASIL BUNTING by Devin Johnston 1
CHARLES DARWIN by Richard Davenport-Hines 17
GAVIN EWART by Alan Brownjohn 33
MICHAEL FRAYN by John Wilders 51
ROY FULLER by Neil Powell 67
THE GAWAIN POET by N. S. Thompson 83
W. S. GRAHAM by John Redmond 103
L. P. HARTLEY by Peter Parker 119
ROBERT HENRYSON by Grace G. Wilson 135
A.D. HOPE by Andrew Zawacki 151
DAVID JONES /Scott Ashley 167
PATRICK KAVANAGH by Robert Welch 183
ANNA KAVAN by David Breithaupt 201
JAMAICA KINCAID by Erik Kongshaug 217
THOMAS MORE by John M. Headley 233
ANDREW MOTION by Robert Potts 251
LES MURRAY by Gerry Cambridge 269