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Literature has a double life. Born in one time and place and read in another, literary works are at once products of their age and independent creations, able to live on long after their original world has disappeared. The goal of this anthology is to present a wealth of poetry, prose, and drama from the full sweep of the literary history of Great Britain and its empire, and to do so in ways that will bring out both the works’ original cultural contexts and their lasting aesthetic power. These aspects are, in fact, closely related: Form and content, verbal music and social meanings, go hand in hand. This double life makes literature, as Aristotle said, “the most philosophical” of all the arts, intimately connected to ideas and to realities that the writer transforms into moving patterns of words.
The challenge is to show these works in the contexts in which, and for which, they were written, while at the same time not trapping them within those contexts. The warm response this anthology has received from the hundreds of teachers who have adopted it in its first two editions reflects the growing consensus that we do not have to accept an “either/or” choice between the literature’s aesthetic and cultural dimensions. Our users’ responses have now guided us in seeing how we can improve our anthology further, so as to be most pleasurable and stimulating to students, most useful to teachers, and most responsive to ongoing developments in literary studies.
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English literature, Literary collections, Collections & anthologies of various literary forms, Literary studies: general, Literary Criticism, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Textbooks, English, British Isles, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism & Collections / General, Great Britain, English literature (collections)Places
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The Longman anthology of British literature
2006, Pearson Longman
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period (Longman Anthology of British Literature)
February 2, 2006, Longman
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Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, The (3rd Edition) (Longman Anthology of British Literature)
February 12, 2006, Longman
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1A, The Middle Ages
February 3, 2006, Longman
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume 2B, The Victorian Age
December 28, 2005, Pearson Education, Inc.
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century
December 29, 2005, Longman
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume 2A, The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
December 28, 2005, Pearson Education, Inc.
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