A superb reference for readers of English literature, this abridgement of Harvey's Oxford Companion to English Literature is now in its second edition, with revisions based on the fourth edition of the Companion. All of Harvey's principal entries on authors, works and mythological and historical subjects are included in abbreviated form--as well as brief reference notes and articles on general literary topics and terms such as Anglo-Saxon Literature, Blank Verse, and Romantic Revival.
This book consists of entries for places in Great Britain and Ireland with literary associations, each headword being followed by a grid reference to the maps at the end. The place-names are arranged in alphabetical order and refer to towns, villages, mansions, cottages, mountains, lakes, and rivers: places where writers have been born, educated, and buried; where they lived and worked; and where they met and talked and struck sparks off each other. The index of authors, which includes over 900 writers (living writers have been excluded), provides a key in the main text, enabling the reader to follow a writer's career from place to place and to discover which f his or her works are linked to specific localities.-- from preface
1958 Oxford at the Clarendon Press; Third Edition Hardcover