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Literary studies
This collection includes books about specific authors, audiences, and literary forms, genres, movements, and periods.
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Hugh MacDiarmid: a festschrift
K.D. Duval
1962
A collection of critical essays, tributes and personal reminiscences published to celebrate MacDiarmid's seventy-fifth birthday.
H.E. Bates: a bibliographical study
St Paul's Bibliographies
1990
A comprehensive bibliography of Bates' first editions, short stories, poems, and articles.
British children's fiction in the second world war
Edinburgh University Press
2009
Assesses the impact the second world war had on children's reading habits.
Plagiarism: an essay on good and bad borrowing
Minority Press
1933
A study of good and bad borrowing.
No other appetite: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the blood jet of poetry
Grolier Club
2005
A catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Grolier Club in2005. From the library of Alan Anderson, of Tragara Press.
Personal landscape
Turret Books
1966
An account of the genesis of the magazine 'Personal Landscape'.
Past poetic: archaeology in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heany
Duckworth
2004
An analysis of how the two poets used archaeology in their work.
The literary masks of Hugh MacDiarmid
Drumalban Press
1964
An essay on the literary impact of Hugh MacDiarmid. An 'extra' of a limited, signed edition of 55.
The individual and the twentieth-century Scottish literary tradition
Akros Publications
1971
A collection of essays. Number 11 of 25 signed copies.
The perennial Shakespeare
British Broadcasting Corporation
1937
A discussion of the persistent interest in Shakespeare.
A Robert Louis Stevenson companion: a guide to the novels, essays and short stories
Macmillan Publishing Company
1984
A guide to Stevenson's work.
Books on the shelf
Philip Allan
1934
A causerie by a bookman and collector with references to Doyle in 'The delights of crime'.
Essays on language and literature
Allan Wingate
1947
A collection six essays by French writers on the power of language. From the library of the noted Scottish supernatural enthusiast Robert Ogilvie Crombie.
Laurence Housman 1865-1959, Clemence Housman 1861-1955, Alfred Edward Housman 1859-1936, from February 5th to 19th, 1975.
National Book League
1975
A catalogue of an exhibition of the works of the Housmans, with notes on editions, etc.
Llaregub revisited Dylan Thomas and the state of modern poetry
Bowes and Bowes
1962
A critique of modern poetry with a focus on Dylan Thomas.
American writers and radical politics, 1900-39: equivocal commitments
Macmillan
1986
A discussion of three generations of writers and their conceptions of socialism and hopes for revolution in America.
Shakespeare's wooden O
Rupert Hart-Davis
1959
A discussion of the stages used in Shakespeare's productions.
Shakespeare's motley
Rupert Hart-Davis
1952
A discussion of the use of the word 'motley' in Shakespeare's works.
Shakespeare's sonnets dated and other essays
Rupert Hart-Davis
1950
A collection of essays on Shakespeare and his works.
Mr W.H.
Rupert Hart-Davis
1964
Details the author's quest for the identity of Mr W. H., the friend to whom Shakespeare wrote his sonnets.
The first night of twelfth night
Rupert Hart-Davis
1955
Explores the theory that Twelfth night was a command performance for Elizabeth I, supported by newly discovered contemporary documents.
The nascent mind of Shelley
Clarendon Press
1971
Written to demonstrate the continuity in Shelley's main ideas and the relevance to his poetry.
Thomas Carlyle and D.H. Lawrence
Carlyle Society
1984
A discussion of the affinity between Thomas Carlyle and D. H. Lawrence
