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Frank Kermode

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#129

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#431

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#29

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#53

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According to Wikipedia, Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing. He was the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University.

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The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1968) (933)
Selected Prose Of T. S. Eliot (1953) (270)
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (1981) (251)
The sense of an ending : studies in the theory of fiction : with a new epilogue (2000) (154)
The literary guide to the Bible (1988) (149)
Collected poetry and prose (1997) (131)
Secrets and Narrative Sequence (1980) (102)
Shakespeare's Language (2000) (97)
The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change (1975) (72)
The Genesis of Secrecy (1979) (57)
The Oxford anthology of English literature (1973) (47)
The Modern Confessional Novel@@@The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1969) (42)
Forms of Attention (1985) (42)
The figure in the carpet, and other stories (1986) (40)
History and Value (1988) (39)
Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon (2004) (33)
The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction (1983) (30)
Albert Camus: Of Europe and Africa (1970) (29)
Canon and Period (1989) (26)
Essays on Conrad: Frontmatter (2000) (24)
History And Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987 (1989) (22)
English pastoral poetry, from the beginnings to Marvell (1969) (22)
F. W. Bateson Memorial LectureLiterary Criticism: Old and New Styles (2001) (20)
An Appetite for Poetry (1989) (19)
Novel, History and Type (1968) (17)
The Poet speaks : interviews with contemporary poets (1966) (17)
Tragicomedy: Its Origin and Development in Italy, France, and England (1956) (13)
The Age of Shakespeare (2004) (13)
Novels: Recognition and Deception (1974) (12)
The literature of Renaissance England (1973) (11)
The Oxford Book of Letters (2003) (9)
Arguing with God (2005) (9)
Best Single-Volume Shakespeare Yet@@@The Riverside Shakespeare. (1976) (8)
An Appetite for Poetry: Essays in Literary Interpretation (1989) (8)
Concerning E. M. Forster (2009) (8)
The living Milton (1960) (8)
Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut (1980) (8)
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance essays, (1971) (7)
The Uses of Error (1986) (7)
Essays on Conrad: The political and social background of The Secret Agent (2000) (6)
Catalogue of British Columbia Birds (2006) (6)
The Use of the Codes (1973) (6)
A Reply to Joseph Frank (1978) (6)
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory (2012) (5)
OPINION, TRUTH AND VALUE (1955) (5)
Pleasing Myself: From Beowulf to Philip Roth (2001) (5)
Puzzles and Epiphanies : Essays and Reviews 1958-1961 (2014) (5)
Not Entitled: A Memoir (1995) (5)
The reader's companion to the twentieth-century novel (1994) (5)
A reader's guide to twentieth-century writers (1996) (5)
Good news from BAD (2002) (5)
Kermode Revisited@@@The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1969) (5)
THE PRIVATE IMAGERY OF HENRY VAUGHAN (1950) (5)
The Living Milton : Essays by Various Hands (2014) (4)
Some Recent Studies in Shakespeare and Jacobean Drama (1961) (4)
Palaces of memory (2001) (4)
Review: Yiddish fiction and the crisis of modernity (2003) (4)
Modern British literature (1973) (4)
Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002 (2003) (4)
Pieces of My Mind: Writings 1958-2002 (2003) (4)
Pleasure and Change (2004) (4)
Essays on Conrad: ‘The Bridge over the River Kwai’ as myth (2000) (4)
Poetry, Narrative, History (1990) (4)
MILTON'S HERO (1953) (4)
Essays on Conrad: Comedy and humour in Typhoon (2000) (3)
The white bear of southwestern British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 26, article 16. (3)
A reader's guide to the twentieth-century novel (1995) (3)
The Structures of Fiction (1969) (3)
Bury place papers : essays from the London Review of Books (2009) (3)
Lawrence and the Apocalyptic Types (1968) (3)
A Modern Way with the Classic (1974) (3)
DEFINITIONS OF LOVE (1956) (3)
Spenser and the allegorists (1964) (2)
Essays on Fiction 1971-82 (2015) (2)
St John as Poet (1986) (2)
The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King Lear (1998) (2)
Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet (2011) (2)
The reader's companion to twentieth-century writers (1995) (2)
Four Centuries of Shakespearian Criticism (1965) (2)
Realism, Reality, and the Novel: A Symposium on the Novel (1969) (2)
The Sword of Honour Trilogy (1994) (2)
The Argument of Marvell’s ‘Garden’ (1952) (1969) (2)
The Oxford Reader: Varieties of Contemporary Discourse (1971) (1)
The Men on the Dump: A Response (1991) (1)
CHRISTIANITY AND CRITICISM (1955) (1)
Yeats and Anglo-Irish literature: Critical essays (1974) (1)
The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature.C.A. Patrides , Joseph Wittreich"Image of that Horror": History, Prophecy, and Apocalypse in King Lear.Joseph Wittreich (1985) (1)
A New Story of Stories (2005) (1)
Essays on Conrad: ‘The Secret Sharer’: introduction (2000) (1)
Notes on the Occurrence of the Plumed Egret Mesophoxy intermedia in British Columbia (1923) (1)
The Discipline of Literature (1998) (1)
W B Yeats : Images of a Poet : My permanent or impermanent images (1961) (1)
Renaissance essays : Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne (1973) (1)
Discussions of John Donne (1962) (1)
The Children of Concern (2019) (1)
The winter's tale : with new dramatic criticism and an updated bibliography (1988) (1)
William Shakespeare : the final plays : Pericles, Cymbeline, The winter's tale, The tempest, The two noble kinsmen (1963) (1)
Othello into Otello: Shakespeare and Verdi's Librettist (1990) (1)
Fragments and Ruins (1989) (1)
English Renaissance literature: Introductory lectures (1974) (1)
‘Dissociation of Sensibility’ (2012) (1)
On the Frontier (1989) (1)
Yahoos and Houyhnhnms (1950) (1)
Two notes on Marvell (1952) (1)
Essays on Conrad: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the critics (2000) (1)
Interpretation and Narrative: Kermode and Jameson@@@The Genesis of Secrecy@@@The Political Unconscious (1984) (1)
Another Gospel Truth (2003) (1)
John Donne . George Herbert . Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne (1964) (0)
A Reply to Denis Donoghue (1975) (0)
The Artist in Isolation (2012) (0)
Wilson and McCarthy: Still entangled (1997) (0)
A Canterbury tale (1993) (0)
8. Changing Epochs (1997) (0)
Book Review: Overheard by God: Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St John (1981) (0)
Seven variations on a theme of John Donne (1945) (0)
Essays on Conrad: Story and idea in Conrad's The Shadow-Line (2000) (0)
Profiles in leadership (1994) (0)
Shakespeare : King Lear : a casebook (1970) (0)
"Paradise Lost" as 'Myth'@@@Milton and Christian Heroism: Biblical Epic Themes and Forms in Seventeenth Century England (1960) (0)
Books received (1982) (0)
THE REST OF T. E. HULME (1956) (0)
Interview of Sir Frank Kermode (2008) (0)
The Bible under the Critic's Loupe (1988) (0)
Literary Upper Crust (1999) (0)
The patience of Shakespeare (1964) (0)
The Need to Go on Talking (1986) (0)
PERSEVERING WITH THE ‘METAPHYSICALS’ (1956) (0)
Wrestling (American Style) with Proteus (1970) (0)
Bruce Pattison. Music and Poetry of the English Renaissance (1949) (0)
A MODE OF THINKING CONGENIAL TO HIS NATURE (1958) (0)
Imagine Writer Essays on Some English Novels and Novelits in Honour of Jean Butz Edited (1968) (0)
The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism@@@The Literary Guide to the Bible@@@Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (1989) (0)
Mr. Greene’s Eggs and Crosses (2014) (0)
Talking Points from Books (1992) (0)
Conrad, James and Chance (2000) (0)
The Changing Profession of Letters (1983) (0)
Selections from the minor poems and the 'Faerie queene' (1965) (0)
The King of Crit (2005) (0)
Essays on Conrad: Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment (2000) (0)
Shrinking the Princess (1999) (0)
Eros, Builder of Cities (1989) (0)
What Should the Writer Read (1972) (0)
Literature,Criticism and Canon--An Interview with Prof.Frank Kermode (1990) (0)
The Argument of MarvelPs ‘Garden’ (1952) (0)
Mysteries and Solutions (1980) (0)
C. B. Cox (2008) (0)
Essays on Conrad: Foreword (2000) (0)
Criticism without machinery (1993) (0)
Getting in by the Back Door (1977) (0)
Malory . Spenser . Donne . Horace Walpole . Edmund Burke . Burns . W.M. Rossetti . Lewis Carroll . James Joyce . Edmund Blunden . Dylan Thomas . W.H. Auden (1958) (0)
FIRST PERFORMANCES (2011) (0)
Essays on Conrad: Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (2000) (0)
Historical fictions: Kermode’s idea of history (2012) (0)
The bliss of the big city (1997) (0)
Bourgeois Literature in the Thirties (1989) (0)
The Bible : story and plot : the Ethel M. Wood lecture, 1984, delivered at the New Theatre, King's College, London on 4 December 1984 (1984) (0)
Entry letter from a publisher 1969: Part 19 (2018) (0)
Book Review:The Calabrian Abbot: Joachim of Fiore in the History of Western Thought Bernard McGinn (1986) (0)
The Arden Shakespeare. The Tempest@@@Cymbeline (1955) (0)
The uncommon reader (1994) (0)
A Spenser Crux: "the Faerie Queene," (1952) (0)
Book Review: New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism (1985) (0)
Books of Critical Interest (1991) (0)
AMERICAN MILTONISTS AND ENGLISH REVIEWERS (1957) (0)
On the Comments of the Discussants (2006) (0)
Solving for X: The Poetry and Prose of Wallace Stevens (1998) (0)
Value at a Distance (1989) (0)
Value in literature : a lecture delivered at the sixty-second general meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan on 20th May 1990 (1990) (0)
THE ATTACK ON LEAVIS (1963) (0)
Essays on Conrad: Around Conrad's grave in the Canterbury cemetery – a retrospect (2000) (0)
A Reply to Paul Feyerabend and Richard Rorty (2019) (0)
The Protean Self: Dramatic Action in Contemporary Fiction@@@Muriel Spark (1975) (0)
Essays on Conrad: Almayer's Folly : introduction (2000) (0)
RELIGION AND THE SENSE OF THE SACRED (2012) (0)
Donne Allusions in Howell's familiar letters (1954) (0)
Attracting, taking, holding: Tony Tanner and Henry James (1999) (0)
Essays on Conrad: The decline of the decline: notes on Conrad's reputation (2000) (0)
Winston Churchill . Christopher Marlowe . Norman Douglas . Tennyson . J.B. Priestley . Dante Gabriel Rossetti . John Donne . Edmund Burke . Robert Burns . Edmund Spenser (1956) (0)
On "Lawrence Up-Tight": Four Tail-Pieces (1971) (0)
The Date of Cowley’s Davideis (1949) (0)
All plots have something in common with prophecy, for they must appear to educe from the prime matter of the situation the forms of a future. (2009) (0)
‘Opinion’ in Troilus and Cressida (2012) (0)
T. E. Hulme (2012) (0)
Left-Handed Compliments: The Practicality of Frank Kermode (1992) (0)
EIGHT Generative Word Play : The Outer Limits of the Novel Genre (2006) (0)
The Anglo-Irish Hyphen (2008) (0)
All into the dark (1999) (0)
The Artist in War and 'Peace' (1946) (0)
I shall presently be extinguished (1993) (0)
Social Legal Studies Claire Moon Africa Narrating Political Reconciliation : Truth and Reconciliation in South (2006) (0)
A Conversation with Sir Frank Kermode (2005) (0)

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