The Oxford Companion to English Literature

The work, which has been periodically updated, includes biographies of prominent historical and leading contemporary writers in the English language, entries on major works, "allusions which may be encountered", significant (serial) publications and literary clubs.

Writers in other languages are included when they have affected the anglophone world.

Modern technology has meant that the two most recent editions have been updated at intervals of about five years before more radical changes are made; a revised printing of the sixth edition was published in 2006.

The revised 2000 edition is now available in the Oxford Reference Online series by subscription only.

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