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2) Byron
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George Gordon Lord Byron, the sixth of the title, has always fascinated biographers (and he has many), though his poetry has tended to be rather more neglected by the critics. This is not to say that his life, a most romantic one by anyone's standard, is more entertaining than his writing. It is not as simple as that.
3) Chaucer
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The farther away from us in time or even space an author is, the more need there is to find out about how people round him live & think. This is why the author has given what may at first sight appear a disproportionate amount of space to preliminary matter.
8) Shakespeare
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The author of this book has not tried to write a scholarly book, but has not used the word 'probably' in every sentence that, strictly speaking, needs it.
9) Tennyson
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Presents the background to the life and times of Alfred Tennyson, surveys his works, and provides contemporary critical opinions of them.
10) Thackeray
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During the last ten years of his life & for some time after his death, Thackeray's reputation stood extremely high. In 1857 George Eliot said that she thought of him, ' ... as I suppose the majority of people with any intellect do, as on the whole the most powerful of living novelists'
11) T.S. Eliot
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Presents the background to the life and times of T.S. Eliot, surveys his works, and provides contemporary critical opinions of them.
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In this book the author has dealt with the published novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte and with the poems of Emily. The author has also tried to show the importance of the close family circle of the Brontes as the area from which their imaginative work stemmed, and the influence upon their work of their reading, and also of those limited aspect of Victorian life in which they were involved.
14) D.H. Lawrence
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The aim of this book is to provide a balanced introduction to D.H. Lawrence, whose work is so powerful & many-sided that it is clearly impossible to do justice to it in one volume, whether large or small.
16) Robert Browning
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For many years after his death Browning was remembered as a great teacher, an apostle of faith, the lover of Elizabeth Barrett-as anything but the author of a number of poems which have always been read & probably always will be.
17) Swift
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Paradoxically Swift is one of the most misunderstood writers in English literature. His own contemporaries often failed to grasp his meaning.
18) W.B. Yeats
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Although Yeat's greatness as a poet is now widely accepted, there are several odd facts about his contemporary reputation and status. Perhaps the oddest is that, though he is granted the label of 'great' by many, attempts to demonstrate his greatness & its nature seem to concentrate on a handful of his poems, his anthology pieces.
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