Boris Ford (1917–1998)

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1. Boris Ford

   Author of From Dickens to Hardy (Pelican Guide to English Literature), From Blake to Byron (Pelican Guide to English Literature), Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition - With an Anthology of Medieval Poems and Drama (New Pelican

2. Henry James

   Author of The Golden Bowl, What Maisie Knew, The Europeans

3. Thomas Hardy

   Author of The Woodlanders, The Trumpet-Major, Wessex Tales

4. David Thomson

   Author of England in the Nineteenth Century (1815-1914) [Volume 8 of The Pelican History of England], England in the 20th Century, 1914-1979: Volume 9 (Hist of England, Penguin)

5. F. R. Leavis

   Author of The Great Tradition, Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry, D. H. Lawrence, novelist

6. Iris Murdoch

   Author of The Black Prince, The Flight from the Enchanter, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)

7. Arnold Bennett

   Author of Anna of the Five Towns, Clayhanger

8. E. M. Forster

   Author of Aspects of the novel, Collected Short Stories

9. H. G. Wells

   Author of Tono-Bungay, The History of Mr. Polly

10. Marcus Cunliffe

    Author of The Literature of the United States

11. Walter Allen

    Author of The English Novel

12. J.H. Plumb

    Author of England in the Eighteenth Century

13. John Sutherland

    Author of Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction, Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles

14. Lady Doris Mary Stenton

    Author of English Society in the Early Middle Ages

15. A.R. Myers

    Author of England in the Late Middle Ages: Volume 4

16. S.T. Bindoff

    Author of Tudor England

17. Helen Gardner

    Author of The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin Classics)

18. Richard Holmes

    Author of Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834

19. A. C. Bradley

    Author of Shakespearean Tragedy

20. G. B. Harrison

    Author of A Book of English Poetry, Introducing Shakespeare