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Essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707 1754) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of Fielding's work in theatre,...

Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707 1754) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of Fielding's work in theatre,...