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The Pelican Book of English Prose: Vol. 2: Seventeenth Century Prose 1620 - 1700
The Pelican Book of English Prose Vol 2 Seventeenth Century Prose 1620 1700 Author:Kenneth Allott (Editor) The Editor: — Peter Ure was born in 1919 and was educated at Birkenhead School and Liverpool University, of which he became a Graduate Research Fellow in English. During the war he worked at home and abroad (in Egypt and Greece) as a member of the Friends' Ambulance Unit, and later as a Welfare Officer with the United Nations relief teams in Gree... more »ce. He is the author of Towards a Mythology: Studies in the Poetry of WB Yeats (1946), and the editor of Shakespeare's Richard II in the New Arden series. His chief interest has been in the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; he has contributed articles on aspects of this subject to the Pelican A Guide to English Literature, and to The Review of English Studies, The Modern Language Review, and other periodicals. Since 1947 he has been a Lecturer in English Literature at King's College, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in the University of Dunham.« less