Matthew Price is an occasional contributor to Book Review. In recent years, many readers have come to John Bayley through “Elegy for Iris,” his loving tribute to his late wife, the novelist Iris ...

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JUST as William Wordsworth had written a preface to his Lyrical Ballads (1800, expanded in 1802), justifying his poetry and the poetry of Romanticism, Altaf Husain Hali penned a muqaddama, or foreword ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...