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

Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi: Supernova Publishers, 1960.Description: viii,534pISBN:
  • 9788189930431
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9  DAI/C
Contents:
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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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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