The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and IrelandDorothy Eagle, Hilary Carnell, Meic Stephens Oxford University Press, 1992 - 322 σελίδες When the Oxford Literary Guide first appeared, it was hailed by The Times of London as "the finest reference work of its kind," while a TLS reviewer reported that he had road-tested the book on a journey from London to Herefordshire. This trip normally takes under four hours. His literary pilgrimage took four days. Now in a new edition, with over 100 places added, as well as 137 more authors, this beautifully illustrated, over-sized volume lists hundreds of places in Britain and Ireland and details their connections with the lives of famous writers. This popular guide provides over 300 illustrations of writers, their houses, and the landscapes that inspired them, as well as a wealth of curious information and entertaining anecdotes. Take a tour of Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey, where you can find Chaucer's canopied tomb, a monument to Shakespeare with lines from The Tempest, the grave of Dickens, and tablets to Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, among many others. Read how the Cumbrian Lake District's breathtaking scenery inspired the "Lake Poets" Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and how Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" was written after he saw the Athenian sculptures at the British Museum. Walk through Chelsea to see where of A.A. Milne, Mark Twain, and Bram Stoker lived. Or travel off the beaten path, to Liverpool, for instance, where bankruptcy led Washington Irving to write the great American classic Rip Van Winkle, or to Muckross, where the author of Baron Munchausen, himself a spinner of tall tales, conned a landowner into buying property planted with samples of rich ore, or to Near Sawrey, where Beatrix Potter owned a seventeenth-century farmhouse. Arranged for easy reference, with maps and an index of writers, The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland will help readers experience the richness of this great literary heritage. |
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... Queen Elizabeth I , inherited the manor built by James Barozzi of Vignola for his fa- ther . He translated Orlando Furioso ( 1591 ) at the Queen's suggestion and entertained her at Kelston ( 1592 ) when he was Lord Lieutenant of ...
... Queen Elizabeth I , inherited the manor built by James Barozzi of Vignola for his fa- ther . He translated Orlando Furioso ( 1591 ) at the Queen's suggestion and entertained her at Kelston ( 1592 ) when he was Lord Lieutenant of ...
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... Queen Caroline , was consequently made a Yeoman of the Guard . In 1733 he married the Queen's housekeeper at Kew and lived in the Palace but his life there was not happy . He be- came librarian in 1735 and , after taking Or- ders , was ...
... Queen Caroline , was consequently made a Yeoman of the Guard . In 1733 he married the Queen's housekeeper at Kew and lived in the Palace but his life there was not happy . He be- came librarian in 1735 and , after taking Or- ders , was ...
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... Queen Elizabeth I's visit when The Queen's Majestie's Entertain- ment at Woodstock ( 1575 ) , the play by George Gascoigne , which tells of a princess giving up her lover for reasons of state , was acted before the Queen and Leicester ...
... Queen Elizabeth I's visit when The Queen's Majestie's Entertain- ment at Woodstock ( 1575 ) , the play by George Gascoigne , which tells of a princess giving up her lover for reasons of state , was acted before the Queen and Leicester ...
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The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland Dorothy Eagle,Hilary Carnell Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1985 |
The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland Dorothy Eagle,Hilary Carnell Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1981 |
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