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<p>When the <b>Oxford Literary Guide</b> first appeared, it was hailed by <b>The Times</b> of London as the finest reference work of its kind, while a TLS reviewer reported that he had road-tested the book on a journey from London to Herefordshire. This trip normally takes under four hours. His literary pilgrimage took four days.<br> Now in a new edition, with over 100 places added, as well as 137 more authors, this beautifully illustrated, over-sized volume lists hundreds of places in Britain and Ireland and details their connections with the lives of famous writers. This popular guide provides over 300 illustrations of writers, their houses, and the landscapes that inspired them, as well as a wealth of curious information and entertaining anecdotes. Take a tour of Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey, where you can find Chaucer's canopied tomb, a monument to Shakespeare with lines from <b>The Tempest</b>, the grave of Dickens, and tablets to Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, among many others. Read how the Cumbrian Lake District's breathtaking scenery inspired the Lake Poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and how Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn was written after he saw the

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Author

and edited by Dorothy Eagle and Hilary Carnell

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192129888

Category

travel

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Travel, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14