History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon.
Franco Marucci is a former Professor of English at the Universities of Siena, Florence and Venice Ca’ Foscari. His publications include
Il senso interrotto. Autonomia e codificazione nella poesia di Dylan Thomas (1976),
The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins (1994),
L’inchiostro del mago. Saggi di letteratura inglese dell’Ottocento (2009) and
Joyce (2013). His
Storia della letteratura inglese in eight volumes was published by Le Lettere, Florence, 2003–2017. As a creative writer he is the author of
Pentapoli (2011), followed by
Il Michelin del sacro (2012). He runs the blog , with comments and features on literature and music, and a weekly sports page.