Paul Theroux's literary travel volume cites passages from his favorite authors.
Dictionary of Literary Biography volume 384.Twenty-First 384.Twenty-First Centurys.
Like the best books of literary letters, this volume reads like brisk, epistolary biography.
Mr. Eagleton is best known for the heavy lifting he performed in his classic volume "Literary Theory: An Introduction" (1983), and for the carnage strewn more recently in "Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate" (2009).
The Friend; A Religious and Literary Journal, April 29 , 1882 volume 55, no 38, page 304, contains a notice of Darwin's death.
The Friend; A Religious and Literary Journal, January 28 , 1882 volume 55, no 25, page 199; a reprint of an article in the Christian Advocate by J.R. Loomis on Darwin's study of earthworms.
Whatever the truth of those words, his life is now destined to stand in the shadow of this truly monumental six-volume literary achievement.
When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S., in the eighteen-thirties, he found a people still in thrall to British literary culture, with volumes of Shakespeare in many a pioneer's hut.
Colum's varied literary output includes volumes of poetry, e.g., Dramatic Legends (1922) and Creatures (1927); plays, such as Broken Soil (first performed 1903) and The Land (1905); novels; anthologies of folklore; and children's books.
IT is an open secret among professors of American literature that the standard survey of the field, the two-volume "Literary History of the United States" by Robert E. Spiller and his colleagues, which was first published in 1948 and most recently revised in 1974, bears little resemblance in substance and methodology to what is studied and taught in many universities today.
