A Short History of English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415050784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 496 str.

Harry Blamires

Opis

'It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of useful facts.' - Times Educational Supplement

Spis treści

1. The fourteenth century 2. Fifteenth-century poetry and prose 3. The early sixteenth century 4. Elizabethan drama 5. Jacobean drama 6. Elizabethan poetry 7. Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry 8. Elizabethan and seventeenth-century prose 9. Milton to Dryden 10. Restoration drama 11. Origins of the novel 12. The age of Swift and Pope 13. The age of Johnson 14. The eighteenth-century novel 15. The close of the eighteenth century 16. Wordsworth and the Romantics 17. Scott and contemporary novelists 18. Victorian poetry 19. The Victorian novel 20. Twentieth-century drama 21. Twentieth-century poetry 22. The twentieth-century novel

O autorze

Harry Blamires was Head of the English Department at King Alfred's College, Winchester, He is now retired and devotes his time to writing.