Preface Books
A Preface to Oscar Wilde
1st Edition
By Anne Varty
March 18, 1998
A Preface to Oscar Wilde provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing. The study concentrates primarily on his fiction, critical dialogues and plays that were published between 1890 and 1895, and detailed accounts of Wilde's lesser known ...
A Preface to Ezra Pound
1st Edition
By Peter Wilson
December 12, 1996
Provides an introduction to the life and works of Ezra Pound, a major modernist poet, theorist and literary critic. Throughout his life Pound was regarded by many to be a contentious and controversial figure, and since his death in 1972, theoretical, literary, political and biographical comentators...
A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies
1st Edition
By Michael Mangan
January 26, 1996
This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As ...
A Preface to Yeats
2nd Edition
By Edward Malins, John Purkis
March 14, 1994
The first edition, by the late Edward Malins, of this informative guide to the life and works of one of the most important and difficult poets of the 20th century, has now been extensively revised by John Purkis. It begins by providing biographical details on Yeats, with particular emphasis on his ...
A Preface to Hopkins
2nd Edition
By Graham Storey
February 03, 1992
An authoritative guide to the life and works of Hopkins, for those who require a good introduction from which to explore the author's works more fully....
A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies
1st Edition
By Michael Mangan
September 16, 1991
This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them....
A Preface to Jane Austen
1st Edition
By Christopher Gillie
August 05, 1985
An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature....
A Preface to Shelley
1st Edition
By P. Hodgart
April 01, 1985
This volume discusses the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the social and political context of the world and time in which he lived....
A Preface to Donne
1st Edition
By James Winny
September 14, 1981
Probably the most famous of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times....