The Oxford Anthology of English Literature - Softcover

Lionel Trilling; Harold Bloom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195016157 ISBN 13: 9780195016154

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1973

Synopsis

This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.

About this title

About the Author:

Harold Bloom is at Yale University.

Review:

"Excellent resource. As a textual resource replete with illustrations, commentary, and unobtrusive notes, I find this Oxford series exemplary."--David B. Vela, Diablo Valley College, CA

"Excellent! Very nearly what I need."--Joan Weatherly, Memphis State University

"Selections are good...Bibliography, glossary, very helpful."--James Douglas Merritt, Brooklyn College, CUNY

"An excellent and comprehensive text with significant selections from poetry and prose."--Sister M. Pacelli, Alvernia College

"I like the inclusion of so many lesser Romantics, and some of the non-'canonic' works from the major Romantics."--Linda M. Brooks, Florida Atlantic University

"The selections are excellent--representative of the diversity of the period....Makes a cross-genre explication/interpretation easy and accessible."--Chris Brooks, University of Texas at El Paso

"I have used this textbook in a number of classes over the past ten years, and would use it again if I were sure it would be kept in print."--Leonard M. Trawick, Cleveland State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0195016157
• ISBN 13: 9780195016154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 864