| Description |
viii, 539 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Anglo-Saxon poetry -- Early middle English poetry -- Chaucer, Gower, and Langland -- English poetry from Chaucer to Skelton -- Early Scottish poetry -- The Tudor renaissance -- Spenser, Sidney, and their circle -- Elizabethan poetry -- The Jacobeans -- Shakespeare's predecessors -- Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors in drama -- The Carolines -- Milton -- Cowley to Dryden -- The age of Pope and other Augustans -- Thomson to Cowper -- Cowper -- Crabbe -- The revival of Scottish poetry -- Burns -- The revolutionary age -- Blake -- Wordsworth and Coleridge : early poems and lyrical ballads -- Wordsworth and Coleridge : later poems -- Scott -- Byron -- Shelley -- Keats -- Landor to Tennyson -- The early Victorians : Tennyson -- Robert Browning -- Mrs. Browning and others -- Mid-Victorian poetry : Arnold, Clough, and Kingsley -- The pre-Raphaelite group -- Patmore, Thomson, and other minors -- Meredith and Hardy -- The Nineties -- Twentieth-century poetry : the pre-war years, 1901-1914 -- The war years, 1914-1918 -- Between the wars, 1919-1939. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
| Added Author |
Smith, J. C. (James Cruickshanks), 1867-1946.
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