| Description |
2 volumes ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
v. 1 Anglo-Saxon literature -- Development of Middle English prose and verse -- Middle English literature: fabliau, lyruc dream allegory, ballad -- Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman -- End of the Middle Ages -- 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 Resoration: drama; Dryden -- Augustan age: Defoe, Swift, Pope -- Poetry from Thomson to Crabbe -- Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen -- Eighteenth-century philosophical, historical, and critical prose, and miscellaneous writing -- Scottish literature from Allan Ramsay to Walter Scott -- Romantic poets I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge -- 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 -- Victorian poets -- Victorian novel -- Drama from the beginning of the eighteenth century -- Twentieth century poetry -- Twentieth-century novel. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Daiches, David, 1912-2005. Critical history of English literature. New York, Ronald Press Co. [1960] (OCoLC)575092574 |
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