A critical history of English literature

A critical history of English literature
David Daiches, David Daiches
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A critical history of English literature

From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature.

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Secker & Warburg
Language
English

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Table of Contents

v. 1
Anglo-Saxon literature --
The development of Middle English prose and verse --
Middle English literature: fabliau, lyruc dream allegory, ballad --
Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman --
The end of the Middle Ages --
The early Tudor scene --
Spenser and his time --
Drama from the miracle plays to Marlowe --
Shakespeare --
Drama from Jonson to the closing of the theaters --
Poetry after Spenser: The Jonsonian and metaphysical traditions --
Milton --
Prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries --
Scottish literature to 1700 -- v. 2
The resoration: drama; Dryden --
The Augustan age: Defoe, Swift, Pope --
Poetry from Thomson to Crabbe --
The novel from Richardson to Jane Austen --
Eighteenth-century philosophical, historical, and critical prose, and miscellaneous writing --
Scottish literature from Allan Ramsay to Walter Scott --
The romantic poets I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge --
The romantic poets II: Shelley, Keats, and Byron --
Familiar, critical and miscellaneous prose of the early and middle nineteenth century --
Victorian prose: John Henry Newman and William Morris --
The Victorian poets --
The Victorian novel --
Drama from the beginning of the eighteenth century --
Twentieth century poetry --
The twentieth-century novel.

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London

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Library of Congress
PR83 .D29

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Pagination
2 v.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL57704394M
OCLC/WorldCat
2824534

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OL42516064W

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