This guide lists almost 1800 cities, towns, villages, districts and houses, where writers lived and worked, or were born, educated, or buried, and interweaves details of each location with anecdote and quotation.

Contains information about the birthplaces, homes, and workplaces of over fifteen hundred literary figures from Colonial times to the present.

This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

This comprehensive guide to Irish literature contains over 2,000 entries for writing in both English and Irish. It includes articles on the historical, cultural and religious contexts for the writers and works concerned.

"The Guide offers both an essential reference work for students of English and comparative literature and a stimulating overview of literary translation in English."--BOOK JACKET.

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.