Bøker av Martin Priestman

This book examines why the form of the detective 'whodunnit' narrative has proved so tenacious, and plots a course through the thousands of crime novels and stories which have appeared since the narrative was established.

The poetry of William Cowper (1731-1800) heralded a simpler and more natural style than the classical style of Pope and his imitators, thus prefiguring the profound innovations of Romanticism. This book, which was originally published in 1983, is the first complete critical study of his major long poem The Task.