Encyclopedias, Gardens and Poetic Vocations

We present today encyclopedias, gardens and poetic vocations:

Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to Present, Second Edition, 2-Volume Set
Authored by George Stade and Karen Karbiener
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th-20th Centuries, 4-Volume Set
Facts on File (Infobase Publishing)
Available: 5/1/2009
ISBN-10: 0816073856
ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-7385-6

Encyclopedia of British Writers: 1800 to Present, Second Edition profiles almost 900 of the finest British poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and other writers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. All entries in this new edition of the award-winning encyclopedia have been fully updated and expanded, almost 100 new entries have been added, and more than 100 new "Critical Analysis" sections have been added to major writers. Each entry includes essential details about the author’s life and work and suggestions for further reading. Entries on major writers include a "Critical Analysis" section that discusses one or more works in greater detail. Writers from Ireland and nations of the British Commonwealth are also included.

A valuable addition to any high school literature classroom or library, this comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia also features an author timeline, a general bibliography, and entries on key terms and movements of the century.

New entries include: * Anne Brontë

The Faber Book of Gardens
Philip Robinson
ISBN: 9780571224210
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber

The poetic appreciations of gardens by Andrew Marvell and John Keats sit alongside the horticultural passions of Frances Hodgson Burnett and the mythic power of gardens as described by Charlotte Bronte and William Blake. Editor and avid gardener Philip Robinson has paid attention to the small, private plot as much as the grand aristocratic and imperial gardens - from medieval Japan to English Landscape to suburban Arizona - and this collection is sure to inspire and enchant gardeners everywhere.

The aforementioned garden description is from Jane Eyre (Chapter XXIII).

And the memoir from poet Fanny Howe:

The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation
Howe, Fanny

ISBN: 9781555975203
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press

Through a collage of reflections on people, places, and times that have been part of her life, she shows the origins and requirements of "a vocation that has no name." She finds proof of this in the lives of others - Jacques Lusseyran who, though blind, wrote about his inner vision, surviving inside a concentration camp during World War II; the Scottish nun Sara Grant and Abbe Dubois, both of whom lived extensively in India where their vocation led them; and the English novelists Antonia White and Emily Bronte. With interludes referring to her own place and situation, Howe makes this book into a "progress" rather than a memoir.

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