A Critical History of English Literature: Volume 1-From the Beginnings to Milton/

A Critical History of English Literature: Volume 1-From the Beginnings to Milton/ by David Daiches - New Delhi: Supernova Publishers, 1960. - viii,534p.

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


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English literature -- History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
English literature.

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