The Oxford companion to English literature
By: compiled and edited by Sir Paul Harvey.
Publisher: The Clarendon press
Published: 1934
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 865
Subjects: English literature -- Dictionaries.; English literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.; American literature -- Dictionaries.; American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- Encyclopedias.
Genres: Encyclopedias.
Notes: "First published November 1932; reprinted...with corrections, January 1934."
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.  Contains some American authors and their works. cf. Pref.