LITERATURE IN PERSPECTIVE (EVANS BROS.)
Series Note: "The aim of the series is make literary criticism lucid to the general reader. A very successful series indeed." -- The Times Educational Supplement.
The volumes are available in hard- and paper-covered editions.
Source of the above information:
George Bernard Shaw
by G. E. Brown
London, Evans Brothers, 1970 (Literature in Perspective)
This series was published by Evans Brothers Limited, Montague House, Russell Square, London W.C. 1, in the period 1966-76.
General Editor: Kenneth Gross, M.A., English Master, Winchester College.
Certain volumes from this series were later republished by Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa.
About the Kenneth Gross
"During our conversation he had explained how he had been commissioned by Evans Brothers Limited of London to be Editor of their series of ‘Literature in Perspective’ about English authors. He accepted doing so, conditional upon being allowed to choose one of the thirty eight books to write himself, Evans Brothers agreed."
-- Neil Reid on a conversation with Kenneth Gross, his former English teacher at secondary school and later General Editor of Evans Brothers's Literature in Perspective series
Source: Neil Reid, Life Isn't All Smooth Waters, AuthorHouse, 2016.
Short review of the Literature in Perspective volume on Tennyson
"Steane, J. B., "Tennyson" (London, Evans Brothers, 1966). An introduction in the 'Literature in Perspective' series. It is now seldom remarked; but F. W. Bateson thought it 'very clever', and it is a first-rate introduction."
Source:
Alfred Tennyson by Seamus Perry, Tavistock, Devon: Northcote House Publishers, 2005 (Writers and Their Work series), Select Bibliography section, p. 182.
Title / Author / Publication Date
Matthew Arnold
Michael Thorpe
1969
W. H. Auden
Dennis Davison
1970
Jane Austen
Norman Sherry
1966; 1974
Blake
Stanley Gardner
1968
Charlotte and Emily Bronte
Norman Sherry
1976
Robert Browning
Ioan Williams
1967
Byron
Francis M. Doherty [Francis Michael Doherty]
1968
Chaucer
M. W. Grose
1975
Coleridge
Reginald Watters
1976
Joseph Conrad
Neville H. Newhouse
1976
Dickens
A. H. Gomme [Andor Harvey Gomme]
1971
Dryden
Dennis Davison
1968
George Eliot
T. S. Pearce [Timothy Scott Pearce]
1973
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Pearce [Timothy Scott Pearce]
1967
Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama
John E. Cunningham
1970
The Elizabethan Poets: The Making of English Poetry from Wyatt to Ben Jonson
Fred Inglis
1969
Fielding
Hamilton Macallister
1967
E. M. Forster
Martial Rose
1970
Thomas Hardy
Trevor Johnson
1968
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jim Hunter
1972
Henry James
Gordon Pirie
1975
James Joyce
Kenneth H. Grose
1975
Keats
Fred Inglis
1976
D. H. Lawrence
Tony Slade
1969
Mediaeval Drama
Alexander M. Kinghorn [Alexander Manson Kinghorn]
1968
The Metaphysical Poets
Jim Hunter
1970
Milton
John Carey
1976
Old English Literature
M. W. Grose and Deirdre McKenna
1973.
George Orwell
Brian Tony Oxley
1973
Thomas Love Peacock
Lionel Madden
1967
Restoration Drama
John E. Cunningham
1966
Scott
Angus and Jenni Calder
1969
Shakespeare
Kenneth H. Grose and B. T. Oxley [Brian Tony Oxley]
1969
George Bernard Shaw
G. E. Brown [George Eric Brown]
1970
Shelley
Gillian Carey
1975
Spenser
Elizabeth A. F. Watson
1967
Swift
W. A. Speck
1970
Tennyson
J B Steane
1970
Thackeray
Ioan M Williams
1968
Wordsworth
Margaret Drabble
1976
W. B. Yeats
Raymond Cowell
1972
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