Publisher's Synopsis
Based on the fifth edition of "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", this is a concise reference guide for the student. More than 5,000 entries illuminate fictional characters, literary movements, legends, theatres, periodicals, the plots of novels, plays, songs and poems, and the lives and works of authors, poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, and historians. The entries have been updated and several entirely new essays added.
