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Selected Essays

Graham Hough author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Feb '81

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This volume of essays, written at various stages of Professor Hough's career, is a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies.

This volume consists of essays, written at various stages of Professor Hough's career, on Coleridge, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Poe, Yeats, T.S. Eliot and John Crowe Ransom, as well as three more on general topics. Together they make up a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies.Professor Hough is probably best known for his exceptional work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and particularly for his books The Romantic Poets (1953) and The Last Romantics (1949). This volume consists of essays, written at various stages of his career, on Coleridge, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Poe, Yeats, T.S. Eliot and John Crowe Ransom, as well as three more on general topics - 'Criticism as a humanist discipline', 'An eighth type of ambiguity' and 'The modernist lyric'. Together they make up a distinguished and wide-ranging collection of literary studies, which displays throughout the characteristic precision and insight of Professor Hough's writings.

ISBN: 9780521299183

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: 330g

256 pages