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| Title: | Literary Genius
: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature |
| Author: | Joseph Epstein & Barry Moser |
| ISBN: | 1589880358 : 9781589880351 |
| Illustrations: | 59 wood engravings |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 190x235mm |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Weight: | .54 Kg. |
| Published: | Paul Dry Books - October 2007 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM: United Kingdom; Great Britain: USA |
What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with illustrations based upon their texts.
1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer; 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare; 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton; 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope; 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson; 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon; 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth; 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt; 10. Evan Boland on John Keats; 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne; 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens; 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman; 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville; 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot; 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson; 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain; 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James; 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad; 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather; 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost; 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner; 23. John Gross on James Joyce; 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot; 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway
