The power of delight : a lifetime in literature : essays, 1962-2002
/ John Bayley ; selected by Leo Carey
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton , c2005.
- xvii, 677 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Spanning four decades, this collection of the essays of John Bayley covers world literature of the last 200 years. Two sections cover British literature. Further sections bear testimony to Bayley's lifelong love of the literature of Russia and express a deep empathy with the preoccupations of Eastern European writers. He also writes on the major figures of American poetry.
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