FRANK KERMODE (1919-2010) was a British literary critic best known for his work THE SENSE OF AN ENDING (published in 1967; revised 2000) and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.  He was knighted in 1991.  A few months before his death in 2010, the scholar James Shapiro described him as "the best living reader of Shakespeare anywhere, hands down."


The following books are in PDF format:

* FORMS OF ATTENTION: Botticelli and Hamlet (University of Chicago Press, 1985)

* PLEASURE AND CHANGE: The Aesthetics of Canon (Oxford University Press, 2004)

* THE ROMANTIC IMAGE (1957; Routledge, 2004). With a new epilogue by the author.

* THE SENSE OF AN ENDING: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, 2nd edition (1967; Oxford University Press, 2000).