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Peter Davies' biographical and critical appraisal seeks to dispel the clutter that surrounds Bronte studies, focusing instead on the artistic autonomy of each sister. The novels of Anne, in particular, are given extra attention, while the claims made on behalf of Emily's poetry are rigorously tested. (131 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

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This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

Robert Giddings introduces and analyses Dickens' major works and explores, especially, his use of audience feedback in his creative processes. Dickens' childhood experiences and his treatment of women in his fiction are analysed, as well as his social critique of a society increasingly de-humanised by materialsim and greed. (170 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

Marnie Pomeroy's guide provides a sympathetic insight Into the life and work of Emily Dickinson. The author's analysis of Dickinson's poetry identifies its enduring qualities but also candidly acknowledges its weaknesses. Unpublished in her lifetime, Dickinson emerges as one of the greatest and most singular voices in poetry in English. (102 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

Warren Hope's guide discusses Orwell's writings from his first book, Down and Out In Paris and London, through his documentaries, novels and essays to his last major works – Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. (80 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

This Guide by Pat Levy attempts to dispel some of the myths that have accumulated through television and cinema adaptations and to deal with the criticisms that, although living through some of the most turbulent times in European history, she could do little more than write mannered comedies about young women finding suitable husbands. The book gives an account of her life and discusses each of her works, looking at themes of parenthood, civility and propriety, women, the ideology of the class that she cuts to the quick with her seemingly gentle irony and, of course, marriage. (100 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects.

John Greening considers some neglected names from the Great War – Wilfrid Gibson, Laurence Binyon, Ivor Gurney, Charles Sorley – while reassessing the work of established figures such as Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, Thomas, Blunden and Graves. Each chapter provides a biographical summary and close analysis of the verse. There is a discussion, too, of other key poems from the period, including the contribution made by women writers. The closing chapter discusses the influence of the war on later poets, such as Ted Hughes. (150 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

Sylvia Plath's place in the canon of contemporary poetry is assured. Her talent, daring and sense of the dramatic make her a compelling writer as evidenced not just in her poems but in her short stories, biographical writings and letters. Marnie Pomeroy explores her output as a writer, digging beneath the image of the cult figure. (71 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

Peter Davies here provides a clear and concise general introduction to the notoriously enigmatic force of Blake’s extraordinary life and literary output. This critical study points to what is readily accessible and then to what is less clear but of higher interest. He analyses and presents what is of greatest value in Blake’s work. (81 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.

In this introduction to Wordworth's work, Andrew Keanie explores the poet's politics, his relationship with his sister Dorothy and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as his synthesis of poetry and philosophy, his startlingly modern strategy of image-building and quest for literary immortality. Keanie sifts through Wordworth's vast output to select those poems of enduring meaning, making clear his achievements. (107 pages) Level: Gymnasiet etc.

Student Guides:
This series introduces the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. They represent the next step up from “Notes”.