Written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship,Masters of British Literatureis a concise, but comprehensive survey of the key writers whose classic works have shaped British literature. Featuring major works by the most influential authors in the British literary traditionBarbauld, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Barrett Browning, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Walcott, Heaney, and Rushdiethis compact anthology combines comprehensive coverage of the enduring works of the British literary tradition from the Romantics through the twentieth century. Core texts are complemented by contextual materials that help students understand the literary, historical, and cultural environments out which these texts arose, and within which they find their richest meaning. Those with an interest in British literature.