A History of English Literature

More attractive if less economical is Parade’s End (1924–8), a quartet also known as the Tietjens tetralogy, after its hero Chri ...

(2000), an anthology arranged by the date of a poem’s first appearance, it comes as a shock to see among the poems of 1916, imme ...

Wordsworth had more poems than Hardy; in Philip Larkin’s Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Verse(1973), Hardy had more than any o ...

Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass. Yonder a ma ...

The best poet who came to light in the war, and fell in it, is the Anglo-Welsh Edward Thomas(1878–1917).Thomas had lived by writ ...

Overview Two pieces of writing published in 1922, James Joyce’s Ulyssesand T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, differed in form from t ...

English language modernism who was entirely English. On inspection, modernist literature turns out to be not very English, and E ...

Although Lawrence came later to repudiate his mother’s ideals and to sympathize with his father, he retained an evangelical true ...

off with Frieda, the German wife of his old tutor at the University College. She left Professor Ernest Weekley with their three ...

Tom Brangwen, blue-eyed and warm, sat in opposition to the youth. ‘How long are you stopping?’ the young husband asked his wife. ...

It is characteristic of Dublin’s love of words that Cranly atttends to the phrase ‘some- thing in a distillery’ rather than to w ...

his growing up, using the language and range of sensations suited to each stage of infancy, boyhood, adolescence and student lif ...

Mulligan plays the priest beginning the Latin Mass, a comic blasphemy which is to be matched by a closing parody. For Mrs Bloom, ...

What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat? Incomplete. With it an abode of bliss. My missus has just got an engagement. At le ...

were to be imitated, but the new poetry was pushed aside by the war, as can be felt in the background of ‘Exile’s Letter’ in Cat ...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Eliot, a severe self-critic, knew his worth; he grouped some of the work in his Collected Po ...

The men have brought fish up from the Thames to Billingsgate market. Magnus Martyr, near which Eliot then worked in Lloyd’s Bank ...

Jerusalem whom Christ told to weep not for him but for themselves and for their children. Their city was to be destroyed, but wo ...

quartet has five parts, of which the first establishes a personal theme and the fourth is short and lyrical;The Waste Land had t ...

(1903–1950) and W. H. Auden (1907–1973). He was not a god for W. B. Yeats, as is clear from Yeats’s Oxford Book of Modern Englis ...