TITLE:
The Oxford guide to literary Britain & Ireland / edited by Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins.
Alternate Title:
Oxford guide to literary Britain and Ireland
Literary Britain & Ireland
Literary Britain and Ireland
Former Title:
Oxford illustrated literary guide to Great Britain & Ireland
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Edition:
3rd ed.
Physical Description:
369 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Take a tour of Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey, where you can find Chaucer's canopied tomb, a monument to Shakespeare with lines from The Tempest, the grave of Dickens, and tablets to Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, among many others. Read how the Cumbrian Lake District's breathtaking scenery inspired the "Lake Poets" Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and how Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" was written after he saw the Athenian sculptures at the British Museum.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780198614609
General Note:
Rev. ed. of : The Oxford illustrated literary guide to Great Britain & Ireland (1981, 1992).
