Book Description
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the
classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the
twenty-first century.
With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation
of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney''s
award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton''s Paradise Lost, and
More''s Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the
nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron,
Tennyson and Barrett Bro
內容簡介:
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the
classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the
twenty-first century.
With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation
of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney''s
award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton''s Paradise Lost, and
More''s Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the
nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson
and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly
global English literature—Conrad''s Heart of Darkness, Woolf''s A
Room of One''s Own, Achebe''s Things Fall Apart, and Friel''s
Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and
thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring
to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and
annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes,
timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and
enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.