Secondhand Literary Studies & Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2863

Secondhand Literary Studies & Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2863

A literary critic's dream — a near-complete Pelican Guide to English Literature series alongside outstanding anthologies of English prose and verse spanning from the Elizabethans to the contemporary moment.

1. The Literature of the United States — Marcus Cunliffe — a comprehensive critical survey of American writing from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century.
2. A Book of English Essays — ed. W.E. Williams (Pelican) — a wide-ranging anthology of English prose across four centuries.
3. Bawdy Verse: A Pleasant Collection — ed. E.J. Burford (Penguin) — a ribald anthology of irreverent English verse through the ages.
4. The Penguin Book of Unrespectable Verse — ed. Geoffrey Grigson — a spirited collection of satirical and subversive poetry.
5. An Introduction to British Plays 1660–1900 — John Cargill Thompson (Pan Literature Guides) — a concise survey of English drama from the Restoration to the Victorian era.
6. The Pelican Guide to English Literature 7: The Modern Age — ed. Boris Ford — the twentieth-century volume of the landmark Pelican series.
7. A Guide for Readers: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature — ed. Boris Ford — the companion reference volume to the complete Pelican series.
8. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature 8: The Present — ed. Boris Ford — extending the series into contemporary writing.
9. The Penguin Book of Ballads — ed. Geoffrey Grigson — a fine anthology of the English and Scottish ballad tradition.
10. The Pelican Book of English Prose Vol. 2 (from 1780 to the present day) — ed. Raymond Williams — the second volume of this essential prose anthology.
11. The Pelican Book of English Prose Vol. 1 (from the beginnings to 1800) — ed. Roger Sharrock — covering early English prose from its origins to the eighteenth century.
12. Current English Usage — Frederick T. Wood — a reliable and practical guide to style and usage.
13. The Faber Book of Popular Verse — ed. Geoffrey Grigson — an accessible and wide-ranging poetry anthology.
14. The Pelican Guide to English Literature 1: The Age of Chaucer — ed. Boris Ford — the opening volume of the landmark series.
15. The Pelican Guide to English Literature 3: From Donne to Marvell — ed. Boris Ford — the metaphysical poets and their seventeenth-century contemporaries.
16. The Pelican Guide to English Literature 4: From Dryden to Johnson — ed. Boris Ford — the Augustan age surveyed.
17. The Pelican Guide to English Literature 5: From Blake to Byron — ed. Boris Ford — the Romantic movement in its literary context.
18. The Pelican Guide to English Literature 6: From Dickens to Hardy — ed. Boris Ford — Victorian literature across the full span of the nineteenth century.
19. The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry — ed. Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion — the defining anthology of British poetry from the 1970s onward.
20. American Literature Since 1900 — ed. Marcus Cunliffe (Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, Vol. 9) — a critical survey of twentieth-century American writing.