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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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The literary works of Jack B. Yeats
Colin Smythe
1991
An assessment of the writings of the Irish painter.
The collector's book of boy's stories
Studio Vista
1973
A guide to collectable boys' books.
The collector's book of children's books
Studio Vista
1971
A guide to collectable children's books.
The sign of the fish
Collins
1960
A study of the art of writing, and a critical analysis of the creative and artistic character.
The novelist as thinker
Dennis Dobson Ltd
1947
Focused on the work of Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Evelyn Waugh, L. H. Myers and Jean Paul Sartre, with poems by E. E. Cummings.
Focus one
Dennis Dobson Ltd.
1945
A serial miscellany concerned chiefly with the criticism of contemporary writing.
The surrealist movement in England
Cornell University Press
1971
An assessment of the impact of the Surrealist Movement on English literature of the 1930s and 1940s.
Soviet literature to-day
Lindsay Drummond
1946
An assessment of Soviet writing up to the reforms of 1946 by the Russian-born Irish surrealist poet, publisher, translator and art collector.
George Orwell: fugitive from the camp of victory
Secker & Warburg
1961
This critical study assesses Orwell's achievements, and examines his best known books in relation to the rest of how work.
The man from new York: John Quinn and his friends
Oxford University Press
1968
A biography of the New York lawyer who became on the most important patrons of art and literature in the twentieth century.
Harold Acton: a bibliography
Neil Ritchie
1984
A bibliography of the noted poet, novelist, historian, essayist, and Sinologist. Number 104 of 500 copies.
Adventures with authors
Cambridge University Press
1966
A collection of essays and studies including one entitled ' Sherlock Holmes'.
Robert Ross, friend of friends: letters to Robert Ross, art critic and writer, together with extracts from his published articles
Jonathan Cape
1952
An annotated selection of letters from 1889 to 1918. From the library of Alan Anderson of Tragara Press.
Precipitous city: the story of literary Edinburgh
Mainstream Publishing
1980
A guide to literary connections in Edinburgh.
Letters from AE
Abelard-Schuman
1961
A selection of letters from George William Russell (AE), a key figure in the Irish literary revival.
Journeys in Ireland: literary travellers, rural landscapes, cultural relations
Ashgate
1999
A critical account of a wide range of travel writing about rural Ireland.
Hamlet and the pirates: an exercise in literary detection
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1950
A new elucidation of the underlying political plot in Hamlet, and of the play's literary history up to the time of the printing of the 1604/5 Quarto.
Auden and after: the liberation of poetry, 1930-1941
George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
1942
An assessment of the younger poets including Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis.
O. Douglas: the story of Anna Buchan
Sheila Scott
1993
A biography of the Scottish novelist and sister of John Buchan.
Anticipations: essays on early science fiction and its precursors
Liverpool University Press
1995
An examination of early, primarily nineteenth-century, science fiction.
An annotated international bibliography of Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno books
Oak Knoll Press and British Library
2008
A descriptive bibliography of over 1000 editions of, or about, the Sylvie and Bruno books.
The encyclopaedia of girl's school stories
Ashgate
2000
Over 400 entries on girls' school stories writers.
Poetry since 1939
Published for The British Council by Longmans Green & Co
1946
A survey of poets and their work during the Second World War.
