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This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and other writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the early romantic poets to contemporary novelists born in distant parts of the former British Empire. Each entry includes essential details about the author's life and work and suggestions for further reading. Entries on major writers include a critical analysis section that discusses one or more of the author's works in greater detail. Each volume also features an author time line, general bibliography, and entries on key terms and movements of the century.Volume I includes profiles of such influential figures as Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, etc.Volume II includes entries on such significant authors as W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, A. S. Byatt, G. K. Chesterton, Roald Dahl, Daphne du Maurier, E. M. Forster, John Fowles,etc