Literary genius : 25 classic writers who define English & American literature /
Literary genius : 25 classic writers who define English & American literature /
selected & edited by Joseph Epstein ; with wood engravings by Barry Moser.
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2007.
- 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The style of genius / introduction by Joseph Epstein -- Geoffrey Chaucer / Tom Shippey -- William Shakespeare / Lois Potter -- John Milton / Reynolds Price -- Alexander Pope / Anthony Hecht -- Samuel Johnson / David Bromwich -- Edward Gibbon / David Womersley -- William Wordsworth / Dan Jacobson -- Jane Austen / Hilary Mantel -- William Hazlitt / Frederic Raphael -- John Keats / Eavan Boland -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Daniel Mark Epstein -- Charles Dickens / A.N. Wilson -- Walt Whitman / Justin Kaplan -- Herman Melville / William H. Pritchard -- Geroge Eliot / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Emily Dickinson / Bruce Floyd -- Mark Twain / David Carkeet -- Henry James / Joseph Epstein -- Joseph Conrad / Elizabeth Lowry -- Willa Cather / Stephen Cox -- Robert Frost / Robert Pack -- James Joyce / John Gross -- T.S. Eliot / John Simon -- William Faulkner / Joseph Blotner -- Ernest Hemingway / James L.W. West III.
1589880358 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1589880390 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781589880351 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781589880399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Authors, American--Biography.
Authors, English--Biography.
Includes bibliographical references.
The style of genius / introduction by Joseph Epstein -- Geoffrey Chaucer / Tom Shippey -- William Shakespeare / Lois Potter -- John Milton / Reynolds Price -- Alexander Pope / Anthony Hecht -- Samuel Johnson / David Bromwich -- Edward Gibbon / David Womersley -- William Wordsworth / Dan Jacobson -- Jane Austen / Hilary Mantel -- William Hazlitt / Frederic Raphael -- John Keats / Eavan Boland -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Daniel Mark Epstein -- Charles Dickens / A.N. Wilson -- Walt Whitman / Justin Kaplan -- Herman Melville / William H. Pritchard -- Geroge Eliot / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Emily Dickinson / Bruce Floyd -- Mark Twain / David Carkeet -- Henry James / Joseph Epstein -- Joseph Conrad / Elizabeth Lowry -- Willa Cather / Stephen Cox -- Robert Frost / Robert Pack -- James Joyce / John Gross -- T.S. Eliot / John Simon -- William Faulkner / Joseph Blotner -- Ernest Hemingway / James L.W. West III.
1589880358 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1589880390 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781589880351 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781589880399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2007023301
Authors, American--Biography.
Authors, English--Biography.