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Literary studies
This collection includes books about specific authors, audiences, and literary forms, genres, movements, and periods.
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Biography of Lord Dunsany
Collins
1972
A biography of the Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist.
Chap-books of the eighteenth century with facsimiles, and introduction
Chatto and Windus
1882
A profusely illustrated early compilation of chapbooks.
Our exagmination, round his factification for incamination of work in progress
Faber and Faber
1972
Originally published in 1929, ten years before Finnegans Wake.
Bloomsbury
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
1968
A clear account of the development of the Bloomsbury group, and its impact and nature.
Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair: the Ardnamurchan years
Society of West Highland and Island Historical Research
1986
A biography of the famous Gaelic poet.
![Sir Walter Scott and the visual artsSir Walter Scott and the visual arts: [the third David Cargill lecture delivered on Wednesday 25th November 1970 at Glasgow School of Art]](https://starlingbooks.co.uk/couch/uploads/image/general/25february1/blissscott-150x217.jpg)
Sir Walter Scott and the visual artsSir Walter Scott and the visual arts: [the third David Cargill lecture delivered on Wednesday 25th November 1970 at Glasgow School of Art]
Foulis Archive Press
1971
A discussion of Scott's influence on architecture and the Scottish school of historical painting.
William Crowe (1745-1829)
J. Stevens Cox
1963
A short biography of the parson and poet, William Crowe. A limited edition of 100.
Scots steel tempered wi' Irish fire: Hugh MacDiarmid and Ireland
Edinburgh College of Art
1985
A discussion of MacDiarmid's Irish sympathies.
MacDiarmid: Christopher Murray Grieve, a critical biography
John Murray
1988
The first critical biography of Hugh MacDiarmid.
Bibliography and textual criticism
Clarendon Press
1966
Contains the Lyell Lectures given at Oxford in Trinity Term in 1959.
The heritage of Symbolism
Macmillan & Co. Ltd
1943
A study of the Symbolist movement with a focus on the poetry of Valery, Rilke, George, Blok and Yeats.
Time was away: the world of Louis MacNeice
Dolmen Press
1974
A distinguished company of friends, colleagues and scholars come together to discuss facets of the Irish poet, playwright and producer's life and work.
Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve)
Oliver and Boyd
1964
A biography of Hugh MacDiarmid and assessment of his literary contribution.
A skeleton key to Finnegans wake
Faber and Faber Limited
1954
A guide to reading Joyce's major work.
A Greek poet in England
John Lehmann
1947
A collection of poems and critical articles by the Greek poet.
A reading of E.M. Forster
Macmillan
1979
Provides critical studies of Forster's six novels and short stories, and a discussion of his life and background. Gift inscription from the author.
The rural tradition in the English novel, 1900-1939
Macmillan
1977
A survey of the principal writing in the heyday of novels about country life. Gift inscription from the author on the front free endpaper.
The flower of battle: British fiction writers of the First World War
Secker & Warburg
1995
An assessment of writers who survived the First World War and the impact it had on their writings.
The political and social ideas of Jules Verne
Thames and Hudson
1972
An analysis of Verne's life and work within the context of nineteenth century French political and social thought.
How I write my novels
Spearman Publishers Limited
1948
A collection of interviews for BBC television's Kaleidoscope programme.
Experience into thought: perspectives in the Coleridge notebooks.
University of Toronto Press
1979
An assessment of the impact of Coleridge's experiences, moods and thought son his poetry and prose works. Gift inscription from the author on the half-title.
Lewis Carroll and his illustrators: collaborations and correspondence, 1865-1898.
Macmillan
2003
A collection of letters that Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books.
The world backwards: Russian futurist books 1912-16
British Library
1978
A survey of the complexity of Russian futurism based on a collection acquired by the British Library.
