A critical history of English literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Ronald Press Co. [1960]Description: 2 v. 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9
LOC classification:
  • PR83 .D29
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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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.