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.