Description
About the Author
Zachary Leader is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. He has also taught at Cambridge, Harvard, Caltech, Universite Rennes 2, Haute Bretagne, and the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of the English Romantic Period as well as of modern British and American writing. Among his books are studies of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1981), writer's block (1991) and revision and romantic authorship (1996). He has edited the Oxford Authors Shelley (with Michael O'Neill, 2003), an anthology of non-canonical Romantic period writings (with Ian Haywood, 1999), the letters of Kingsley Amis (2000), and a volume of original essays on modern British fiction (2002). His biography of Kingsley Amis was published in 2006 and was one of three finalists for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and began work on a life of the American novelist Saul Bellow.
Reviews
Excellent * D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement *
It should be read. * Nicholas Haslam, The Spectator *
The best essays here are robust in address, firm in judgment, and alert for the deflating hatpin behind the arras. It's seldom you get to use the word 'rollicking' of semi-academic literary criticism, but some of these earn the epithet. * Sam Leith, The Spectator *
The most absorbing essay in the book... is Terry Castle's "The Lesbianism of Phillip Larkin"... Castle shows that it's possible to write wittily and sensitively about aspects of Larkin's life that usually get treated with horror, jeers or indignant defensiveness. * Christopher Tayler, The Guardian *
Many good essays in this collection * Stefan Collini, London Review of Books *
Expertly compiled * The Observer *
The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years... * Alan Brownjohn, Literary Review *
What these essays share, beyond their subject matter, is the ability to write jargon-free prose thay makes room for the human character of both of the writers under discussion and the essayists themselves. In the first place, this gives readings that are as lucid as they are perceptive * Oxford Today *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199558254
Author Zachary Leader
Format Hardback
Page Count 346
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 146mm * 223mm * 30mm