This main work in preparing this new edition has been to bring the entries for the twentieth century up to date. Many new writes have become established since the author first wrote, and a few who …
To understand something of the Bible, and of its transmission in and through English literature, is to reckon sympathetically with the development of English cultural consciousness in its richest a…
In his introduction to the original of this book, Sir Paul Harvey stated that his volume would serve its purpose if it proves a useful companion to ordinary everyday readers of English literature a…