British Writers Retrospective: Supplement I

The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and a styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political concerns for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 17 sets comprising this series. To see listings of writers for any volume in this section, go to the "Scribner Writers Series section online at www.gale.com/scribners. This supplement reflects the newest scholarship on some of the most important figures featured in the original "British Writers set. Twenty-two articles, all written by scholars, provide a fresh look at writers such as William Blake, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats and many others.Jay Parini is the author of 'British Writers Retrospective: Supplement I', published 2001 under ISBN 9780684312279 and ISBN 0684312271.