Sheridan

Margaret Oliphant

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• The Scots novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) published this biography of the playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) in the first ... Lees meer

Coleridge

Henry Duff Traill

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• The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), is considered to be the starting po... Lees meer

Dickens

Adolphus William Ward

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• Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1882, this biography of Charles Dickens (1812-70) provides a short introduction to the life... Lees meer

Daniel Defoe

William Minto

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• Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879, a time when a complete edition of Daniel Defoe's works was yet to be collated, this b... Lees meer

Bacon

Richard William Church

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• This introduction to the life and works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1884. The author, ... Lees meer

Bunyan

James Anthony Froude

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• John Bunyan (1628-88), the Bedfordshire tinker and non-conformist preacher, is best known for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Published in 1880 in the... Lees meer

de Quincey

David Masson

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• Combining intellectual enthusiasm with analytical bite, David Masson's biography of the self-confessed opium eater provides readers with valuable insi... Lees meer

English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set

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• In the 1870s, the publishing house of Macmillan began to issue a series of books called English Men of Letters - biographies of English writers by oth... Lees meer

Spenser

Richard William Church

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• Edmund Spenser (1552-99) has been described as one of the greatest English poets, and is best known for The Faerie Queene, which he composed in celebr... Lees meer

Byron

John Nichol

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• George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) is regarded as one of Britain's greatest poets. As famous for his personality as he was for his poetry, he was r... Lees meer

Charles Lamb

Alfred Ainger

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• Written by clergyman Alfred Ainger (1837-1904), this 1882 biography of writer Charles Lamb (1775-1834) is the twenty-first book in the first series of... Lees meer

Burke

John Morley

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• This volume on Edmund Burke (1729-97), published in 1879 in the first series of English Men of Letters, was written by the general editor of the serie... Lees meer

Gray

Edmund Gosse

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• Thomas Gray (1716-71) was one of the most influential poets of the eighteenth century, and is probably best remembered today for his Elegy Written in ... Lees meer

Dryden

George Saintsbury

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• John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet and playwright, whose works led to the English Restoration period becoming known as 'The Age of Dryden'. P... Lees meer

Samuel Johnson

Leslie Stephen

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• The English poet, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is perhaps most famous for his Dictionary of the English Lang... Lees meer

Robert Burns

John Campbell Shairp

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• Like other works in the first series of English Men of Letters, Shairp's 1879 biography of Robert Burns (1759-96) is a work of both history and litera... Lees meer