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Title: The Longman Anthology of British Literature (The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century)
ISBN: 0321067649
Author:
David Damrosch
Peter Manning
Anne Schotter
William Sharpe
Publicate Date: 1999-08-04
Publish: 1999-08-04
List Price: $37.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Textbook Binding
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1: Vivid Representation
The Longman Anthology of British Literature - 2B / 0-321-10669-5
Anthologies are usually either purchased because they are required reading for school or because the purchaser would like to round out a private library with worthwhile literary selections. This review is written predominantly to help the latter in their purchasing decision.
This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged not only by the dates they represent, but also by the causes that they provide perspective on. This arrangement makes the literary selections more meaningful when read as a group, and provides a great deal of insight on pertinent issues which influenced the authors' writings. This arrangement does mean, however, that many selections are scattered throughout the work, so if you wish to read all the selections by, say, Charles Dickens, you will have to wade through the index to find all the places his writings are located. All in all, the organization is a good one, unless you specifically prefer having all the writings of an author located in the same place, in which case another anthology might be best - perhaps the Norton anthologies.
The authors represented in this volume are:
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Arnold, Matthew
- Ashford, Daisy
- Beerbohm, Max
- Beeton, Isabella
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Bird, Isabella
- Bronte, Anne
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carroll, Lewis
- Clough, Arthur Hugh
- Cobbe, Frances Power
- Colenso, John William
- Darwin, Charles
- Dickens, Charles
- Disraeli, Benjamin
- Douglas, Lord Alfred
- Douglas, Lady Alfred (Olive Custance)
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Eliot, George
- Ellis, Sarah Stickney
- Engels, Friedrich
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Gilbert, W.S.
- Gosse, Sir Edmund
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Hughes, Thomas
- Huxley, Thomas Henry
- James, Henry
- Johnson, Lionel
- Kemble, Fanny
- Kinglake, Alexander William
- Kingsley, Charles
- Kingsley, Mary
- Kipling, Rudyard
- le Gallienne, Richard
- Lear, Edward
- Leverson, Ada
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Mayhew, Henry
- Mill, John Stuart
- Morris, William
- Nesbit, Edith
- Newbolt, Sir Henry
- Newman, John Henry Cardinal
- Norton, Caroline
- Nightingale, Florence
- Pater, Walter
- Potter, Beatrix
- Rossetti, Christina
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- Ruskin, John
- Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Strauss, David Friedrich
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Symons, Arthus
- Trollope, Francis
- Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
- Wilde, Oscar
(Note: For some reason, the amazon reviews for Volume 2B and Volume 2C seem to be grouped together, so I will group my reviews for both volumes together, as only one review is allowed per grouping.)
The Longman Anthology of British Literature - 2C / 0-321-10580-X
Anthologies are usually either purchased because they are required reading for school or because the purchaser would like to round out a private library with worthwhile literary selections. This review is written predominantly to help the latter in their purchasing decision.
This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged not only by the dates they represent, but also by the causes that they provide perspective on. This arrangement makes the literary selections more meaningful when read as a group, and provides a great deal of insight on pertinent issues which influenced the authors' writings. And unlike the previous volumes in this collection, the author works are kept together in one area, not scattered throughout the collection. All in all, the organization is a good one, and this anthology is a fine addition to any private library.
The authors represented in this volume are:
- Auden, W.H.
- Beckett, Samuel
- Boland, Eavan
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Brooke, Rupert
- Carter, Angela
- Churchill, Caryl
- Churchill, Sir Winston
- Collins, Michael
- Conrad, Joseph
- Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ni
- Eliot, T.S.
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Graves, Robert
- Greene, Graham
- Gunn, Thom
- Hardy, Thomas
- Heaney, Seamus
- Hughes, Ted
- Jones, David
- Joyce, James
- Kelman, James
- Larkin, Philip
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Muldoon, Paul
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Parnell, Charles Stewart
- Plath, Slyvia
- Orwell, George
- Owen, Wilfred
- Rhys, Jean
- Rosenberg, Isaac
- Rushdie, Salman
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Shaw, Bernard
- Smith, Stevie
- Spender, Stephen
- Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa
- Thomas, Dylan
- Walcott, Derek
- Waugh, Evelyn
- West, Rebecca
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Woolf, Virginia
- Yeats, William Butler
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2: Vividly Colorful
The Longman Anthology of British Literature - 2A / 0-321-10579-6
Anthologies are usually either purchased because they are required reading for school or because the purchaser would like to round out a private library with worthwhile literary selections. This review is written predominantly to help the latter in their purchasing decision.
This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged not only by the dates they represent, but also by the causes that they provide perspective on. This arrangement makes the literary selections more meaningful when read as a group, and provides a great deal of insight on pertinent issues which influenced the authors' writings. This arrangement does mean, however, that many selections are scattered throughout the work, so if you wish to read all the selections by, say, Hannah More, you will have to wade through the index to find the three or four places her writings are located. All in all, the organization is a good one, unless you specifically prefer having all the writings of an author located in the same place, in which case another anthology might be best - perhaps the Norton anthologies.
The authors represented in this volume are:
- Austen, Jane
- Baillie, Joanna
- Barbauld, Ann Letitia
- Bellamy, Thomas
- Blake, William
- Burke, Edmund
- Burns, Robert
- Clare, John
- Clarkson, Thomas
- Cobbett, William
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Cowper, William
- de Quincey, Thomas
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Gilpin, William
- Godwin, William
- Gordon, George (Lord Byron)
- Hazlitt, William
- Hemans, Felicia
- Kant, Immanuel
- Keats, John
- Lamb, Charles
- Lamb, Mary
- Macaulay, Catherine
- Moore, Thomas
- More, Hannah
- Newton, John
- Paine, Thomas
- Polwhele, Richard
- Prince, Mary
- Radcliffe, Mary Anne
- Robinson, Mary
- Ruskin, John
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Smith, Charlotte
- Smith, Eaglesfied
- Southey, Robert
- Spence, Sir Patrick
- Thompson, William
- Wakefield, Priscilla Bell
- Wheeler, Anna
- Williams, Helen Maria
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Wordsworth, William
- Yearsley, Ann Cromartie
- Young, Arthur
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3: Wonderful reading
I got this book for an English Romanticism class, and apart from assigned readings by the teacher, the book also has biographies of the poets and writers -- really interesting read!
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4: A great anthology!
I'm using the Longman Anthology of the Romantics and their Contemporaries (3d edition) for the first time in my 3d-year Romantics course (enrolment 88 and counting!) -- I would like to thank the editors for doing a fantastic job -- the introductory essay (pp. 3-29) is truly unparallelled for clarity, scope, and intelligence -- absolutely filled to the brim with great, challenging ideas. The headnotes provide a meaningful, detailed historical background. Excellent, well annotated selections -- the notes are great too -- not condescending, not entirely ruled by the editors' obsessions, finely articulated. What a sane, sensible, well balanced, erudite anthology! Congratulations and thank you !
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5: Good Book
I had this book for a class, it is good and explains the periods and some major authors
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