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<p><P>When <b>The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland</b> first appeared, it was hailed by <b>The Times</b> of London as the finest reference work of its kind. Now in a new edition, with over 150 more authors and new feature entries by high-profile authors such as Margaret Drabble and John Sutherland, this beautifully illustrated, over-sized volume lists hundreds of places in Britain and Ireland and details their connections with the lives of famous writers. <br> This popular guide provides more than 200 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 The Tempest, 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 Athenian sculptures at the British Museum. Walk through Chelsea to see where of A.A. Milne, Mark Tw

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Author

Dorothy Eagle; Daniel Hahn; Nicholas Robins; Meic Stephens

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198614609

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Reference

Rating

4.22 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13