The Oxford companion to English literature
By: compiled and edited by Sir Paul Harvey.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: The Clarendon Press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 911
Subjects: English literature -- Encyclopedias.; English literature -- Bio-bibliography.; American literature -- Encyclopedias.; American literature -- Bio-bibliography.; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- Encyclopedias.
Genres: Encyclopedias.
Notes: "First published November 1932 ... second edition 1937; reprinted February 1938 with corrections."
Consists of a list of English authors, literary works, and literary societies which have historical or present importance, and explanation of allusions, containing a proper name, commonly met with in English literature.  Includes some American authors and their works.  cf. Pref.
Appendix: I. Censorship and the law of the press.--II. Notes on the history of English copyright, by Sir Frank Mackinnon.--III. Perpetual calendar.