Literary genius
Subtitle: 25 classic writers who define English & American literature
By: selected & edited by Joseph Epstein ; with wood engravings by Barry Moser.
Contributors: Epstein, Joseph, 1937-; Moser, Barry.
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589880399; 9781589880351
Subjects: Authors, English -- Biography; Authors, American -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer; title: Lois Potter on William Shakespeare; title: Reynolds Price on John Milton; title: Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope; title: David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson; title: David Womersley on Edward Gibbon; title: Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth; title: Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; title: Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt; title: Evan Boland on John Keats; title: Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens; title: Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman; title: William Pritchard on Herman Melville; title: Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot; title: Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson; title: David Carkeet on Mark Twain; title: Joseph Epstein on Henry James; title: Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad; title: Stephen Cox on Willa Cather; title: Robert Pack on Robert Frost; title: Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner; title: John Gross on James Joyce; title: John Simon on T.S. Eliot; title: James L.W. West III on Ernest Hemingway.