By the late 1890s Kenneth Grahame had established his reputation in England and in the United States as an essayist. In 1898, at the age of thirty-nine, he further distinguished himself by becoming th...
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For more than eighty years, Kenneth Grahame's works have been among the most widely read of English children's writers. In his 1959 biography of Grahame, Peter Green reports that The Wind in the Willo...
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Although it has often been pointed out that The Wind in the Willows (1908), Kenneth Grahame's most enduring work, presents an idealized portrait of rural nineteenth-century England, Edmund Little in T...
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In the following essay, Ray compares Grahame's The den Age to works about childhood by William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens.
Although Kenneth Grahame's current reputation rests entirel...
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In the following essay, Anderson discusses the characteristics of Grahame's prose style.
Kenneth Grahame's writing belongs to what might be called the literature of the countryside. Not ...
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