Frank Kermode
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare's works.
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English
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A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire--though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century...
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T.S. Eliot memorial lectures ; 1973
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Author
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Mary Flexner lectures ; 1965
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Author
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1977-1978
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
16) John Donne
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Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
17) Continuities
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
Critical essays on literature.
18) The tempest
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English
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Prospero, exiled on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, raises a magical tempest to wash ashore a ship carrying the enemies who usurped his dukedom years ago -- his brother Antonio and Alonso, the king of Naples. Alonso's son Ferdinand is feared dead but has washed to another part of the island, where he meets and falls in love with Miranda. Prospero punishes the usurpers and regains his dukedom, as Miranda gains a royal husband.